Mythologies Without End
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-045908-6 (ISBN)
In Mythologies Without End, Jerome Slater takes stock of the conflict from its origins to the present day and argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong. For example, the Israelis' treatment of Palestinians after 1948 undermined its claim that it was a true democracy, and the argument that Arab states refused to negotiate with Israel for decades is simply untrue. Because of widespread acceptance of these myths in both the US and Israel, the consequences have been devastating to all of the involved parties. In fact, the actual history is very nearly the converse of the mythology: it is Israel and the US that have repeatedly lost, discarded, or even deliberately sabotaged many opportunities to reach fair compromise settlements of the Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. As Slater reexamines the entire history of the conflict from its onset at the end of WWI through the Netanyahu era, he argues that a refutation of the many mythologies that is a necessary first step toward solving the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Focusing on both the US role in the conflict and Israel's actions, this book exposes the self-defeating policies of both nations — policies which have only served to prolong the conflict far beyond when it should have been resolved.
Jerome Slater is a retired political science professor, who taught at Ohio State University (1963-1966) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (1967-1999). He was the Fulbright Lecturer in Political Science at Haifa University in 1989, and has lectured in Israel on other occasions. He is the author of three books and over fifty articles in professional journals, national magazines, and newspapers including New Republic, Dissent, Huffington Post, Buffalo News, Christian Science Monitor, Tikkun, and Yale Review, among others.
Ch. 1: Introduction
Part 1: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Origins and Early Years
Ch. 2: Zionism Reconsidered
Ch. 3: The Onset of the Conflict, 1917-1947
Ch. 4: The Creation of The State of Israel, 1947-48
Ch. 5: Explaining U.S. Policies Towards Israel
Part II. War and Peace in the Arab-Israeli State Conflict, 1948-2018
Ch. 6: The 1948 War
Ch. 7: Lost Opportunities for Peace, 1949-56
Ch. 8: Israel, Egypt, and the 1956 Suez War
Ch. 9: From War to War, 1956-1967
Ch. 10: The Cold War and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967-1974
Ch. 11: The Israeli Peace Treaties With Egypt and Jordan
Ch. 12: The Lebanon Wars
Ch. 13: The Israeli-Syrian Conflict, 1973-2018
Part III. War and Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Ch. 14: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1917-1982
Ch. 15: The Rise and Fall of the Peace Process, 1975-1999
Ch. 16: The Peace Process Resumed: Camp David and Taba, 2000-2001
Ch. 17: The Israeli Occupation and Palestinian Resistance, 2001-2008
Ch. 18. Israel, the "Siege of Gaza" and the Evolution of Hamas, 2008-2014
Ch. 19: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, Last Gasps, 2001-16
Ch. 20: The Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts in the Netanyahu-Trump Era 2017-2020
Ch. 21: Summary and Conclusions
Epilogue
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.11.2020 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 163 mm |
| Gewicht | 839 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-045908-5 / 0190459085 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-045908-6 / 9780190459086 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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