The Arab-Israeli Conflict

This book provides a holistic view of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours and studies the global implications of their fraught relations.

Autorentext

P. R. Kumaraswamy is Professor of contemporary Middle East in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. From 1992 to 1999, he was a research fellow at the Harry S Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Jerusalem. Since joining JNU in September 1999, he has been researching, teaching and writing on various aspects of the contemporary Middle East. His works include Squaring the Circle: Mahatma Gandhi and the Jewish National Home (2018), India's Israel Policy (2010) and Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2015, second edition). In October 2009, he set up the virtual Middle East Institute, New Delhi, and serves as its honorary director. In addition, he is the editor of the refereed quarterly Contemporary Review of the Middle East and the series editor of Persian Gulf: India's Relations with the Region.

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Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction

2 Approaches and Problems

3 Dimensions of the Conflict

4 Jewish National Home

5 Balfour Declaration

6 Mandate Palestine

7 Partition of Palestine

8 War of 1948

9 Suez Crisis of 1956

10 June 1967 War

11 UNSC Resolution 242

12 October War of 1973

13 The Palestinian Resistance

14 Arab Boycott of Israel

15 Non-conventional Challenges

16 Madrid Conference of 1991

17 The Oslo Process

18 Changing Palestinian Strategies

19 Occupied Territories

20 Jerusalem

21 The Refugee Problem

22 Other Contentious Issues

23 Peace-Making Efforts

24 Role of External Players

25 India and Arab-Israeli Conflict

26 Resolving the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Index