One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel Palestine Conflict

257 Pages·2009·5.67 MB·English

by  Prof. Benny Morris

One State, Two States
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One State,
Two States
Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Benny Morris
yale university press new haven & london
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Morris, Benny, 1948–
One state, two states : resolving the Israel/Palestine conflict / Benny Morris.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-300-12281-7(clothbound : alk. paper)
1. Arab-Israeli conflict—Peace. 2. Israel-Arab War, 1948–1949—Influence.
3. Israel-Arab War, 1948–1949—Causes. 4.Jewish-Arab relations—History—
1947–1948. 5. Palestinian Arabs—Politics and government. 6. Palestine—
Politics and government—1917–1948. 7. Israel—Politics and government.
8. Zionism—History. I. Title.
ds119.7.m6565 2009
956.9405'4—dc22 2008040285
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Contents
acknowledgments vii
maps viii
list of abbreviations xv
1 The Reemergence of One-Statism 1
2 The History of One-State and Two-State Solutions 28
3 Where To? 161
notes 203
bibliography 223
index 230
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Professors Beni Kedar, Ruth Gavison, and
Ron Zweig, as well as the anonymous readers, for reading and
commenting on the manuscript. Their suggestions and correc-
tions have added much to the quality of the outcome.
I would like to thank Jeff Abel for, as usual, sorting out various
technical issues.
My thanks, too, to Georges Borchardt and Jonathan Brent for
making the book possible and to Laura Jones Dooley for helping
fashion the outcome.
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The Peel Commission partition proposal, July 1937.
viii
The UN General Assembly partition proposal, November 1947.
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