Palestine and Israel from the British Mandate to the 2008 Gaza War

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Photo of Southern Palestine, taken by the American Colony Photo Department, 1946

This collection of original articles from Asian Affairs (and its predecessor, the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society) traces the emergence of the ‘Israel-Palestine’ conflict from the period of the British Mandate (1917-1948) until the aftermath of the 2008 Gaza War between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement, ‘Hamas’. It contains articles by British observers of the growing strife between the Arab and Jewish populations, positional speeches from 1930 by Chaim Weizmann (later the first president of Israel) and Jemal Bey Al Husseini (Chairman of the Palestine Arab Party), discussions of peace proposals including one from Sir Archer Cust, the former Private Secretary to the High Commissioner of Palestine. Archdeacon Angus Macinnes provides a rare first-hand account of the communal violence that accompanied the end of the British Mandate and the independence of Israel. Lieutenant‐General Sir John Glubb (Glubb Pasha) addresses ‘Britain and the Middle East’ in the months after the 1956 Suez War and there are period articles on US policy in the Middle East after the ‘Six-Day War’ of 1967 and the role of the Arab Ba’ath Party after the 1973 ‘Yom Kippur War’. Two articles from the early 1980s bracket the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. The collection also includes thoughts on the future of Palestinian refugees from 1995 and a look back on a century of conflict from the historian Avi Shlaim in 2011.

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Originally published in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume: 5, Number: 2 (01 Jan 1918)

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Originally published in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume: 10, Number: 1 (01 Jan 1923)

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Originally published in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume: 17, Number: 1 (01 Jan 1930)

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Originally published in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume: 17, Number: 1 (01 Jan 1930)

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Arabs and Jews

Originally published in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume: 21, Number: 1 (01 Jan 1934)

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Originally published in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume: 23, Number: 2 (01 Apr 1936)

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Originally published in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume: 24, Number: 4 (01 Oct 1937)

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Originally published in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume: 36, Number: 2 (01 Apr 1949)

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Originally published in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume: 44, Number: 3-4 (01 Jul 1957)

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Originally published in Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society, Volume: 55, Number: 3 (01 Oct 1968)

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Originally published in Asian Affairs, Volume: 5, Number: 1 (01 Feb 1974)

Published online: 24 Aug 2007
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The annual dinner, 1982

Originally published in Asian Affairs, Volume: 13, Number: 2 (01 Jun 1982)

Published online: 24 Aug 2007
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Originally published in Asian Affairs, Volume: 14, Number: 3 (01 Oct 1983)

Published online: 29 Aug 2007
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Originally published in Asian Affairs, Volume: 26, Number: 3 (01 Nov 1995)

Published online: 18 Jun 2010
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Originally published in Asian Affairs, Volume: 42, Number: 1 (01 Mar 2011)

Published online: 08 Feb 2011
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