Futile Diplomacy, Volume 1

Neil Caplan

1. First Attempts 1.1. Nature and Development of Arab-Zionist Relations in Palestine, 1882-1914 1.2. Growing Awareness of a Conflict 1.3. The Turkish Factor 1.4. First Negotiation Attempts, 1913 1.5. Renewed Contacts, 1914 1.6. Failure of the 1914 Conference 2. Post-War Diplomacy, 1918-1920 2.1. Aftermath of World War 1 2.2. Arab-Armenian-Zionist Entente 2.3. First Local Contacts: Cairo and Palestine 2.4. The British Factor 2.5. Weizmann-Faisal Negotiations 2.6. The Undoing of the Weizmann-Faisal Agreement 3. High-Level Meetings in the Early Twenties 3.1. Another Palestinian-Zionist Encounter 3.2. Early Relations with Amir Abdallah 3.3. Syrian Nationalists 3.4. Collapse of the Cairo Talks 4. Grass-Roots Contacts During the Twenties 4.1. Local Zionist Proposals for an Agreement 4.2. Arab Initiatives for an Agreement 4.3. Arab and Jewish Motives for Cooperation 5. Relations in the Wake of Crisis, 1929-31 5.1. Negotiating Opportunities and the Wailing Wall Dispute 5.2. Uncertainties of British Policy 5.3. Third Party Intervention: H. St-John Philby 5.4. Zionist Rejection of the Philby Mediation 5.5. Split in Zionist Ranks 5.6. Daniel Oliver: Quaker Mediator 5.7. Preventative Diplomacy: the Joint Bureau 5.8. Kalvaryski’s Personal Diplomacy 5.9. Rutenberg Proposals 5.10. Weizmann’s Personal Diplomacy 5.11. Development Scheme Negotiations 5.12. Conclusion. Conclusion. Lessons of Experience. Palestinian and Non-Palestinian Arabs. Third-Party Considerations. Terms of Agreement. Low Priority of an Arab-Zionist Accord Documents