Israeli And Palestinian Narratives of Conflict

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Pub. Date: 2006-09-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary

Why does Hamas refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the state of Israel? Why do Israeli settlers in the West Bank insist that Israel has a legitimate right to that territory? What makes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so intractable? Reflecting both Israeli and Palestinian points of view, this provocative volume addresses the two powerful, bitterly contested, competing historical narratives that underpin the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Compelling contributions by Israeli and Palestinian authors show how the intertwined reckonings of the historical past-history's double helix-provide powerful ammunition for current battles. Just when a resolution of the conflict might seem to be on the horizon, the gulf of history resurges to separate the contenders. Palestinians and Israelis remain locked in struggle, tightly entangled and enveloped by a historical cocoon of growing complexity, fundamental disagreement, and overriding miscalculation.This book creates a dialogue among Palestinian and Israeli authors, who examine opposing versions of the historical narratives in the context of contemporary Israeli-Palestinian relations. In hard-hitting essays the contributors debate the two justifying and rationalizing constructions, laying bare the conflict's roots and the distorted prisms that fuel it. Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to make sense of today's headlines.

Author Biography

Robert I. Rotberg is Director of the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is also President of the World Peace Foundation. His many books include Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa and When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Map of the Middle East x
1. Building Legitimacy through Narrative
1(18)
Robert I. Rotberg
2. Israeli-Jewish Narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Evolution, Contents, Functions, and Consequences
19(28)
Daniel Bar-Tal and Gavriel Salomon
3. Forging Zionist Identity Prior to 1948—Against Which Counter-Identity?
47(25)
Dina Porat
4. The Arab and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 War
72(43)
Saleh Abdel Jawad
5. Zionism's Encounter with the Palestinians: The Dynamics of Force, Fear, and Extremism
115(27)
Nadim N. Rouhana
6. Conflicting Narratives or Narratives of a Conflict: Can the Zionist and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 War Be Bridged?
142(32)
Mordechai Bar-On
7. Narratives and Myths about Arab Intransigence toward Israel
174(20)
Mark Tessler
8. The Bridging Narrative Concept
194(11)
Ilan Pappe
9. The Psychology of Better Dialogue between Two Separate but Interdependent Narratives
205(20)
Dan Bar-On and Sami Adwan
10. Contesting National Identity in Palestinian Education 225(19)
Nathan J. Brown
11. The Dynamics of Identity Construction in Israel through Education in History 244(27)
Eyal Naveh
List of Contributors 271(4)
Index 275

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