Research Catalog

Title

The Israel-Arab reader : a documentary history of the Middle East conflict.

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laqueur, Walter, 1921-2018
• Rubin, Barry M.

Description

xii, 580 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Report (August 31, 1947) / UN Special Committee on Palestine. Resolution on the Future Government of Palestine (Partition Resolution) (November 29, 1947) / UN General Assembly -- Pt. II. From Israel's Independence Through the 1973 War's Aftermath. Proclamation of Independence (May 14, 1948) / State of Israel. Resolution 194 (December 11, 1948) / UN General Assmbly. Resolution 303, On the Internationalization of Jerusalem (December 9, 1949) / UN General Assembly. Law of Return (July 5, 1950) / State of Israel. Resolution 619, Concerning Restrictions on the Passage of Ships Through the Suez Canal (September 1, 1951) / UN Security Council. On Zionism and Israel (1960-1963) / Gamal Abdel Nasser. Manifesto (April 1963) / United Arab Republic.

Subject

• 1917-1948
• Jewish-Arab relations > History > 1917-1948 > Sources
• Arab-Israeli conflict > Sources

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From the Bilu to the British Mandate's End -- Bilu Group: Manifesto (1882) -- Theodor Herzl: The Jewish State (1896) -- The First Zionist Congress: The Basle Declaration (August 1897) -- Negib Azouri: Program of the League of the Arab Fatherland (1905) -- Sir Henry McMahon: The McMahon Letter (October 24, 1915) -- British and French Governments: The Sykes-Picot Agreement (May 15-16, 1916) -- British Foreign Minister Lord Arthur Balfour: The Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917) -- Emir Feisal and Chaim Weizmann: Agreement (January 3, 1919) -- Emir Feisal and Felix Frankfurter: Correspondence (March 3-5, 1919) -- The General Syrian Congress: Memorandum Presented to the King-Crane Commission (July 2, 1919) -- The King-Crane Commission: Recommendations (August 28, 1919) -- Winston Churchill: The Churchill White Paper (June 1922) -- League of Nations: The British Mandate (July 24, 1922) -- British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald: The MacDonald Letter (February 13, 1931) -- The Palestine Royal Commission (Peel Commission): Report (July 1937) -- British Government: Policy Statement Against Partition (November 1938) -- British Government: The White Paper (May 17, 1939) -- The Jewish Agency for Palestine: Zionist Reaction to the White Paper (1939) -- German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini: Zionism and the Arab Cause (November 28, 1941) -- The Biltmore Program: Towards a Jewish State (May 11, 1942) -- The Arab Office: The Arab Case for Palestine (March 1946).

ISBN

0140297138

LCCN

^^2001276105

OCLC

• 47948540
• SCSB-11181680

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library