Books in the Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict series

This book examines contending visions on nomadism in modern Palestine, with a special focus on the British Mandate period. It proves that nomadism was not invented by the British or the Zionists, but is the shared legacy of Ottoman, British, Zionist, Palestinian, and most recently, Israeli attitudes to the Bedouin of Palestine.

Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948 examines Palestinian Arab society, institutions, and fighters in Jerusalem and Jaffa during the conflict. It is one of the first books in English that deals with the Palestinian Arabs at this crucial and tragic moment in their history, with extensive use of Arabic sources and an inquiry from the Palestinian vantage point. It examines the causes of the social collapse of the Palestinian Arab communities in Jerusalem and Jaffa during the 1948 inter-communal war, and the impact of this collapse on the military defeat. This book reveals that the most important internal factors to the Palestinian defeat were the social changes that took place in Arab society during the British Mandate, namely internal migration from rural areas to the cities, the shift from agriculture to wage labour, and the rise of the urban middle class. By looking beyond the well-established external factors, this study uncovers how modernity led to a breakdown within Palestinian Arab society, widening social fissures without producing effective institutions, and thus alienating social classes both from each other and from the leadership.

This book examines the nature of the single state alternative, as a movement of resistance, and investigates its potential to become a counterhegemonic force against the processes of Zionism as embedded within the Israeli-Palestinian peace process since Oslo.

Political Conflict and Exclusion in Jerusalem offers a detailed description of the structure of the education sector in East Jerusalem with its four main providers; the Palestinian Authority through Awqaf schools, the Israeli Authority through municipal schools, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and private schools. Its study reveals that there is no single body that oversees the provision of educational services in the city to ensure that the services provided are sufficient and of quality. Employing a qualitative research strategy with semi-structured interviews and focus groups in Palestinian and Israeli schools, this book offers a comprehensive and revealing comparison of the educational services provided to both their students. It explores how Palestinian and Israeli students routinely receive vastly different learning opportunities, in terms of school funding, qualified staff, school facilities and school programmes, which as a result disempowers Palestinians and ensures an Israeli Jewish hegemony over the city.

Political Conflict and Exclusion in Jerusalem offers a detailed description of the structure of the education sector in East Jerusalem with its four main providers; the Palestinian Authority through Awqaf schools, the Israeli Authority through municipal schools, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and private schools. Its study reveals that there is no single body that oversees the provision of educational services in the city to ensure that the services provided are sufficient and of quality. Employing a qualitative research strategy with semi-structured interviews and focus groups in Palestinian and Israeli schools, this book offers a comprehensive and revealing comparison of the educational services provided to both their students. It explores how Palestinian and Israeli students routinely receive vastly different learning opportunities, in terms of school funding, qualified staff, school facilities and school programmes, which as a result disempowers Palestinians and ensures an Israeli Jewish hegemony over the city.

Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948 examines Palestinian Arab society, institutions, and fighters in Jerusalem and Jaffa during the conflict. It is one of the first books in English that deals with the Palestinian Arabs at this crucial and tragic moment in their history, with extensive use of Arabic sources and an inquiry from the Palestinian vantage point. It examines the causes of the social collapse of the Palestinian Arab communities in Jerusalem and Jaffa during the 1948 inter-communal war, and the impact of this collapse on the military defeat. This book reveals that the most important internal factors to the Palestinian defeat were the social changes that took place in Arab society during the British Mandate, namely internal migration from rural areas to the cities, the shift from agriculture to wage labour, and the rise of the urban middle class. By looking beyond the well-established external factors, this study uncovers how modernity led to a breakdown within Palestinian Arab society, widening social fissures without producing effective institutions, and thus alienating social classes both from each other and from the leadership.

UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees employs recent fieldwork in order to analyse challenges in programmes and service delivery, protection, camp governance, community participation, and camp improvement and reconstruction. The chapters examine the way UNRWA is adapting to a changing social, political and economic context, mostly within urban settings ¿ a paradigmatic shift from understanding the Agency¿s role as simply a provider of relief and services to Palestinian refugees.

This book examines the nature of the single state alternative, as a movement of resistance, and investigates its potential to become a counterhegemonic force against the processes of Zionism as embedded within the Israeli-Palestinian peace process since Oslo.

More than four million Palestinian refugees live in protracted exile across the Middle East. Taking a regional approach to Palestinian refugee exile and alienation across the Levant, this book proposes a new understanding of the spatial and political dimensions of refugee camps across the Middle East.

Examines the politics of Jerusalem since 1967 and in particular the city's decline as an Arab city. This book covers issues such as the Old City, the barrier, planning regulations and efforts to remove Palestinians from it. It focuses on Palestinian politics and how they have evolved over time from the grass roots upwards.

The Palestinian refugee problem represents one of the largest and most protracted displacements of people in the world. This book tackles the issue of reparations for those affected. Employing a comparative approach, it examines other precedents for reparations and how these might be employed in the Palestinian case.

Offers a comparison of two ethnic-national states which have been in conflict - apartheid South Africa and Zionist Israel - and how internal dissent has developed. This book examines the evolution of effective white protest in South Africa and explores the reasons why comparably powerful movements have not emerged in Israel.

Why has the West disbursed vertiginous sums of money to the Palestinians after Oslo? What have been donors' motivations and above all the political consequences of the funds spent? This book examines the interface between diplomacy and international assistance during the Oslo years and the intifada.

Taking a theoretical approach in the context of the built environment, this book examines Jewish-Arab relations in Israel. It argues that there are complex links between socio-political relations and the production of contested urban space.

Since the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, more than a quarter of the Palestinians have been imprisoned by Israel on political grounds. Based on ethnographic, archival, and textual data, this study examines the community of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.

Tracing the evolution of the Israeli academic debate over history, politics, and collective identity, this book examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and follows the discursive struggle over Israeli collective identity.

Examines the development of civil society in the Arab Middle East and the impact of western donors. Looking at the evolution of Palestinian civil society organizations from sociological, historical, legal, and institutional perspectives, this book sheds light on the involvement of donors in Palestine.

This is a collection of cutting-edge research on the Naqab Bedouin in Israel. The present volume brings together this new scholarship to challenge perceived paradigms, often dominated by orientalist, modernist or developmentalist assumptions on the Naqab Bedouin.