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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823798603321

Autore

Dowty Alan <1940->

Titolo

Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine : two worlds collide / / Alan Dowty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2019]

2019

ISBN

0-253-03868-5

0-253-03866-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 pages)

Collana

Perspectives on Israel Studies

Disciplina

956.04

Soggetti

Arab-Israeli conflict - History

Jewish-Arab relations - History

Palestine Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Palestine before Zionism -- Russian Jews before Zionism -- Two worlds collide -- Unneighborly relations -- Truth from the land of Israel -- The arena expands -- Battle lines.

Sommario/riassunto

When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in 1929. Alan Dowty, however, traces the earliest roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, arguing that this historical approach highlights constant clashes between religious and ethnic groups in Palestine. He demonstrates that existing Arab residents viewed new Jewish settlers as European and shares evidence of overwhelming hostility to foreigners from European lands. He shows that Jewish settlers had tremendous incentive to minimize all obstacles to settlement, including the inconvenient hostility of the existing population. Dowty's thorough research reveals how events that occurred over 125 years ago shaped the implacable conflict that dominates the Middle East today.