1948 and After

Israel and the Palestinians
2. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-19-827929-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks

In this new collection of essays, three of which appear here for the first time, Benny Morris examines and elucidates aspects of the Arab exodus from Palestine in 1948, focusing on Israeli decision-making and the causes of the mass exile.

He deals with the transfer of Majdal's (Ashkelon's) Arabs to Gaza in 1950 and the initial absorption of the Palestinian refugees in the Arab host countries in 1948-9, and looks at why a number of Arab villages in key areas of Israel along the highways linking Tel Aviv with Jerusalem and Haifa did not go into exile voluntarily and were left in place by the Israeli authorities. He examines the attitudes towards the Palestinian Arabs, as they evolved during the 1948 war, of Israel's two main parties, Mapai and Mapam; how the battle for the harvest of 1948 affected the exodus; how the Israeli Defence Forces' Intelligence Service analysed the Arab exodus; and how Yosef Weitz, a Jewish National Fund official, and the two `Transfer Committees' he chaired, helped promote the Palestinian exodus during 1948-9.

In his introduction, Dr Morris examines past and present Israeli historiography, analysing the shift from the `old' official Israeli histories to the `new history' of the 1980s. He identifies the major points of controversy between the two approaches and the direction in which Israeli historiography is now moving.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conway Morris, Simon

Morris, Benny

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; The new historiography: Israel and its past; Mapai, Mapam and the Arab problem in 1948; The causes and character of the Arab exodus from Palestine: the Israel Defence Forces Intelligence Branch analysis of June 1948; Yosef Weitz and the transfer committees, 1948-9; Haifa's Arabs: displacement and concentration, July 1948; The harvest of 1948 and the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem; The case of Abu Ghosh and Beit Naqquba, Al Fureidis and Khirbet Jisr az Zarka in 1948 - or why four villages stayed; The initial absorption of the Palestinian refugees in the Arab host countries, 1948-9; The transfer of Al Majdal's remaining Arabs to Gaza, 1950

Über Autor(innen)

Former diplomatic correspondent of the Jerusalem Post