- Publisher: The New Press
- ISBN: 9781595586834
- Price: $27.50 CAD
- Publication Date: Nov 2011
- Rights: Canada
- Pages: 336
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Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine
Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Eyal Naveh
In 2000, a group of Israeli and Palestinian teachers gathered to address what to many people seemed an unbridgeable gulf between the two societies. Struck by how different the standard Israeli and Palestinian textbook histories of the same events were from one another, they began to explore how to “disarm” the teaching of the history of the Middle East in Israeli and Palestinian classrooms. The result is a riveting “dual narrative” of Israeli and Palestinian history. Side by Side comprises the history of two peoples in separate narratives set literally side by side, so that readers can track each against the other, noting both where they differ as well as where they correspond. This unique and fascinating presentation has been translated into English and is now available to American audiences for the first time. An eye-opening—and inspiring—new approach to thinking about one of the world’s most deeply entrenched conflicts, Side by Side is a breakthrough book that will spark a new public discussion about the bridge to peace in the Middle East.
Peace Research in the Middle East (PRIME) is a nongovernmental organization established by Palestinian and Israeli researchers with the help of the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany.
Contents
· In Memory of Professor Dan Bar-On
· The Dual-Narrative Approach
· Introduction
1: From the Balfour Declaration to the British Mandate in Palestine/ Eretz Yisrael
1: The Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
2: The Land of Israel and the Yishuv in the 1920s
2: Palestine in the Twenties
3: The Land of Israel between 1931 and 1947
3: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: The Thirties and Forties
4: The War of Independence and the Founding of the State of Israel
4: Al-Nakbah, 1948
5: The State of Israel: The First Decades, 1950s and 1960s
5: Years of Homelessness and Despair: The Fifties and Sixties
6: The Six-Day War of June 5–10, 1967
6: Israeli Aggression Against Arab and Palestinian Lands: June 1967 War
7: From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada: Israel in the 1970s and 1980s
7: Palestine and the Palestinians, 1967–1987
8: Intifada
8: The Intifada of 1987
9: The 1990s
9: Reaching for a Settlement: Agreements Toward the Unknown
· Notes
· Key Terms
· References
About the Authors
The late Dan Barn-On was a co-founder of the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME).
PRIME co-director Eyal Naveh is a professor of U.S. history at Tel Aviv University and teaches history and history education at the Kibbutzim College of Education.