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List of Maps xi Preface to the First Edition xiii Preface to the Second Edition xv Abbreviations xvii Note on Sources xix Part I Introduction 1 1 Problems in Defining the Conflict 3 What’s in a Name? 4 Loaded Terminology 5 Maps 7 Dates and Periodization 10 An Ongoing Conflict: Tractable or Intractable? 13 Conflict Resolution or Conflict Management? 14 The \"Other\" Arab-Israeli Conflict 15 Advocacy and Censure 16 2 Defining the Conflict, Nevertheless 21 Who are the Conflicting Parties? 21 What are the Main Issues in Contention among the Parties to the Conflict? 25 Competing Narratives: Right versus Right, Victim versus Victim 33 Ways of Visualizing the Conflict 34 Analogies and Parables 36 The Conflict in Comparative Perspective: Three Paradigms 37 Part II Histories in Contention 43 3 Background to 1917: Origins of Conflict 45 Ancient Ties and Historical Memories 45 Early Encounters: 1880s-1914 48 An Unseen Question? 50 Colonialism and Nationalism 51 Victims versus Victims 55 4 Arabs and Jews under the British Mandate: Entrenching Positions, 1917-1928 61 Wartime Commitments: Palestine as the \"Much Too Promised Land\"? 61 Britain’s \"Dual Obligation\" 64 The Mandate and Its Implementation: Cycle of Protests and Inquiry Commissions 67 Clashes and Confrontations during the Early Years of the Mandate 70 Zionist Responses to Palestinian-Arab Opposition 71 \"Making the Desert Bloom\" 73 The Deceptive Lull 77 5 Collapse of the Mandate: Rebellion, Partition, White Paper, 1929-1939 83 Radicalization of Palestinian Politics 83 General Strike and Rebellion, 1936 86 Turning Point: The (Peel) Royal Commission 87 Retreat from Partition 91 The Resort to Force: Violence, Terrorism, and National Struggles 92 6 Shoah, Atzma’ut, Nakba: 1939-1949 105 The Holocaust and Jewish Immigration to Palestine 105 The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry 110 UNSCOP and the Creation of Israel 111 War: Atzma’ut and Nakba 115 Nakba and Shoah: Victims versus Victims, Once Again 123 7 Israel and the Arab States, 1949-1973 133 The Palestinian Issue after 1949 133 From Armistice to Non?Peace 136 Low?Intensity Border Warfare, 1949-1956 139 From War to War, I (1949-1956) 142 From War to War, II (1957-1967) 145 From War to War, III (1967-1973) 150 8 Back to the Core: Israel and the Palestinians 163 Primal Fears, New Militancy 163 The Re?Emergence of the Palestinian National Movement after 1967 165 The Palestine Question at the United Nations 171 9 From Camp David to the West Bank to Lebanon 181 Camp David and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process 181 The West Bank and Gaza after Camp David 184 Operation \"Peace for Galilee\": Israel Invades Lebanon, 1982 188 Righteous Victimhood in the 1980s 189 10 From Mutual Boycott to Mutual Recognition, 1982-1995 199 Peace Plans and Planting Seeds 199 The First Intifada and the Gulf War, 1987-1991 201 Madrid and Oslo: A New Peace Process 206 11 From Breakthrough to Breakdown, 1995-2018 219 Continuing Diplomatic Efforts 220 The Al?Aqsa Intifada 223 Changes in the Geo?Strategic Environment 225 Three Gaza Wars, Three Blueprints for Peace 227 The Annapolis Process and Kerry’s Shuttle Diplomacy 230 Part III Towards a More Useful Discussion of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 243 12 Writing about the Conflict 245 On the Shortcomings of \"Myths versus Facts\" 246 Objectivity and Bias in Academe 248 Scholars and Activists 252 Israel’s \"New Historians\" 257 Missed Opportunities 259 Trends in Palestinian and Israeli Historiography 265 13 Grappling with the Obstacles 277 Issues versus Rights 277 The Shape of the Future: What \"Solutions\"? 279 Unwinnable Core Arguments 285 Righteous Victimhood 286 Imagining Dialogue 289 Reducing Some Obstacles to Understanding the Conflict 291 Telling It Like It Is 294 Chronology 305 Bibliography 319 Index 355

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