Syllabus - הקונפליקט הישראלי פלסטיני - קורס חובה באנגלית (8154)

חומר חובה לקריאה:
WEEK 1
Introduction: Early Encounters between the Zionist Movement and the Arabs

Neville Mandel, The Arabs and Zionism before World War Ι (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), 32-57; 223-231.

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History (Waltham: Brandeis UP, 2012), ch. 1-2 (pp. 3-64)

Watch: 1913: Seeds of Conflict (Ben Loeterman, 2014), 60 min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&eq;DNmzoFNgCXg

WEEK 2

Jews and Arabs during World War I and the British Mandate

Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict 1881-1999 (London: J. Murray, 1999), pp. 67-121 (ch. 1, 3).

Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 145-175.

*Benny Morris, Righteous Victims, pp. 121-160 (ch. 4).

WEEK 3
The War of 1948: History and Historical Debate

Said Aly et al. Arabs and Israelis, Ch. 2 (pp. 46-84)

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 4-28, conclusion.

Rashid Khalidi, "The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure," in: Eugene Rogan and Avi Shlaim (eds.), The War on Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, pp. 12-36.

Avraham Sela and Alon Kadish, “Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Historical Narratives of 1948,” Israel Studies 21, 1 (2016), pp. 1-26.

Ari Shavit, “Lydda, 1948,” The New Yorker, Oct. 21 2013

*Mordechai Bar-on, "Conflicting Narratives or Narratives of Conflict: Can the Zionist and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 War be Bridged?", in: Robert Rotberg (ed.), Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix (Bloomington: Indiana UP), pp. 142-168 (scanned)

* Ahmad H. Sa'adi, "Catastrophe, Memory and Identity: Al-Nakbah as a Component of Palestinian Identity," Israel Studies, 7:2 (Summer 2002), 175-98. (scanned)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/israel_studies/v007/7.2saadi.pdf

* Efraim Karsh, "The Palestinians and the "Right of Return," Commentary, May 2001, pp. 25-31 (scanned)

WEEK 4

Israel and the Palestinians between 1948-1967: Refugees, Military Rule, PLO

Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, The Palestinian People: a History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), pp. 214-239 (ch. 7).

Matti Steinberg, "Arafat's PLO: The Concept of Self-Determination in Transition", The Jerusalem Journal of International Relations 9, No. 3 (Septermber 1987), pp. 85-98.

*Tom Segev, 1949: The First Israelis (NY: The Free Press, 1986), pp. 68-91

Primary Source:
“Palestinian National Charter, Resolutions of the Palestine National Council July 1-17, 1968” (scanned)

Watch: PLO: History of a Revolution (Youtube)

Watch: The Time that Remains (Director: Elia Suleiman, 2009, 109 minutes)

WEEK 5

From 1967 to the First Intifada

Said Aly et. al, Arabs and Israelis Ch. 4 (pp. 118-155)

Benny Morris, Righteous Victims, pp. 302-346 (ch. 7, 12).

Primary Source:
"UN Security Council Resolutions 242 (November 22, 1967)

Watch: The PLO: History of a Revolution: Intifada (Youtube), The Six Days War of 1967 (Youtube)

WEEK 6
The Oslo Accords, the PA, and the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

Said Aly et al., Arabs and Israelis, Ch. 9 (pp. 306-330)

Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, The Palestinian People, pp. 315-397 (ch. 10-11).

Menachem Klein, “Quo Vadis? Palestinian Authority Building Dilemmas since 1993,” in: Middle Eastern Studies 33, no. 2 (April 1997), pp. 385-405.

* Israeli and Palestinian debate the agreements: “Documents and Source Material”, Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 23, No. 2 (Winter, 1994). See pp. 130-135
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2538248.pdf

*Rex Brynen and Roula El-Rifai, (eds.) Compensation to Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Palestinian-Israeli Peace (London: Pluto Press, 2013), TBA

WEEK 7
Challenges to the Palestinian Authority: Islamic Opposition

Meir Litvak, “The Islamization of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Case of Hamas,” in: Middle Eastern Studies 34, no. 1 (Jan. 1998), pp. 148-163.

Menachem Klein, "Hamas in Power", Middle East Journal, 61, no. 3 (Summer 2007), pp. 442-459.

Khalil Shikaki, With Hamas in Power: Impact of Palestinian Domestic Developments on Options for the Peace Process, (Brandeis University: Crown Center for Middle East Studies Working Paper 1, February 2007).
http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/crown/publications/WP/WP1.pdf

*Bjorn Brenner, Gaza Under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamic Governance (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017), ch. 1, 8 (pp. 1-28, 171-200)

Primary Source:
“The Charter of the Islamic Resistance” (scanned)

Watch: Paradise Now (Director: Hany Abu-Asad, 2006, 91 minutes)

WEEK 8
Challenges within Israel

Ehud Sprinzak, The Emergence of the Israeli Radical Right Comparative Politics Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jan., 1989), pp. 171-192.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/422043.pdf

David Newman, From Hitnachalut to Hitnatkut: The Impact of Gush Emunim and the Settlement Movement on Israeli Politics and Society, Israel Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Fall 2005), pp. 192-224.

* Amos Oz, "Meaning of Homeland," in: Who is Left? Zionism Answers Back (Jerusalem: the Zionist Library, 1971), pp. 155-173

Watch: Withdrawal from Gaza (1:31):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&eq;SB42YjUNCZU&t&eq;1s

WEEK 9

The Palestinian citizens of Israel their challenges with the state
Amal Jamal, "The Ambiguities of Minority Patriotism: Love for Homeland versus State among Palestinian Citizens of Israel," Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, 10, 3 (2004), pp. 433-471.

Summary of the Orr Committee Report

The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel 2006

Shimon Shamir, The Arabs in Israel –Two Years after the Or Commission Report, a lecture in Tel Aviv University, September 2005

*Elie Rekhess, “The Arabs of Israel After Oslo”, Israel Studies 7.3 (2002) 1-44. (scanned)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/israel_studies/v007/7.3rekhess.html

WEEK 10

Conclusion: The Future of the Conflict: Students' Reflections

Alan Dowty, Israel/Palestine (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005), pp. 204-216 (ch. 8)

Watch: Precious Life (Director: Shlomi Eldar, 2010, 90 min.)

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