Here is a brief, intelligent, even-handed analytical account of the origins of the Arab-Zionist conflict and its development from early in the twentieth century until 1948, focusing particularly on the period when Britain ruled Palestine under mandate from the League of Nations.
List of Maps
List of Documents
Preface
CHAPTER ONE
Arab Nationalism and British Promises of Independence During World War I
Intellectual and Political Developments Before 1914
Husayn and the Arab National Movement
The Husayn-McMahon Correspondence, July 1915--January 1916
The British Promise, 24 October 1915
A Summary Evaluation of the Correspondence
CHAPTER TWO
Zionism and the Balfour Declaration
Emancipation and Anti-Semitism
Political Zionism
The Balfour Declaration
The Drafting and Significance of the Declaration
The Balfour Declaration Assessed, and Compared with the Husayn-McMahon Correspondence
CHAPTER THREE
Mandatory Problems, 1920-1945
Britain's Middle Eastern Empire
Britain's Quest for Legitimacy
The Palestinian Arabs: Political and Socioeconomic Upheaval
The Zionists' Progress
Crossroads in the 1930s
The Arab Rebellion
The 1939 White Paper and World War II
CHAPTER FOUR
From Mandate to Independence, 1945-1948
The Power Vacuum in 1945
The Search for an Anglo-American Consensus
Zionist Rebellion
Arab Disarray
The British Decision to Surrender the Mandate
The UN Partition Resolution, November 1947
The Establishment of the State of Israel
Documents
Glossary
Suggested Reading
Index
