Assignment:explain and analyze the way each side to the Palestine dispute regarded the main developments and events from November 1917 (Britain’s entry into Jerusalem and issuance of the Balfour Declaration) to May 1948 (British departure from Palestine).
Topic #1:Covers years 1917-1939, concluding with the 1939 White Paper.
Topic #2: Covers years 1939-1948, beginning with the 1939 White Paper.
Instructions:
1) Write a ten-page paperon one of the two periods. Essays should deal with the narratives of both sides regarding the rise and course of the conflict. Course readings explain the principal processes and turning points that marked these years. The two film series (Pillar of Fire and al-Nakba) further reflect the divergent ways in which Arabs and Jews viewed successive crises.
2) General remarks: This a research paper only in a limited sense, because the sources are predetermined:those are the bibliographyandfilms both assigned and viewed in class. Lectures also provide material for each topic, but a good paper will reflect familiarity with the readings. Stick to major issues; do not attempt to encompass everything in your paper.
3) Length and technical requirements: Ten typed pages are about 3,000 words, not including notes. A length of 2,500 words is acceptable; do not exceed 3,500 words.Avoid passive voice and present tense. Pay attention to spelling, sentence structure and grammar.Other important criteria are organization and clear writing.Papers should be printed on one side and include a cover sheet. Staple pages firmly or place them in a thin binder.
4)Notes or footnotes: Do not cite or quote lectures. Cite bibliographic sourcesand/or films when drawing upon them for ideas, facts, and of course quotations. Use any acceptable format for citations but be consistent. Papers need not be heavily documented; a general guideline is a citation at the end of any paragraph drawn from one of the sources.
Feel at liberty (in essays) to convey ideas, offer analysis, and make observations. Avoid presenting personal opinions. There is no rigid “formula” that serves as a set criterion, and good papers may be considerably different from one another. Do not hesitate to pose questions over e-mail or after class (i.e., office hours).
Pick one of the topics above and Write on that period following the instructions above. Used only the reading materials and the Films to write the paper. Do not use outside sources. Cite everything you use from the book and the films and be sure to mention from which page or which films you got the material you use in the paper.
The text books we used are:
Ian J. Bickerton and Carla L. Klausner, A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (7th edition, Pearson, 2015). [Includes documents].
Mark Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, second edition, 2009).
The readings we covered so far are:
1. Roots of the Conflict, Zionism, and Palestinian Arab Nationalism
Required Reading:
Bickerton and Klausner, 1-37.
Tessler, 7-122.
Recommended:
ShlomoAvineri, The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981), 2-13.
Israel Kolatt, “The Zionist Movement and the Arabs,” Studies in Zionism 8, 1 (1987), 25-49.
David Waines, “The Failure of the Nationalist Resistance,” in Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (ed.), The Transformation of Palestine (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1987), 217-235.
2. The First World War and the Rise of Arab-Jewish Conflict in Palestine
Required:
Bickerton and Klausner, 38-72 (covers period ending with 1939).
Recommended:
Tessler, 123-184.
3. Toward 1939: The British Mandate and Growing Confrontation
Required:
Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 185-246.
Recommended:
Michael Cohen, The Origins and Evolution of the Arab-Zionist Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), 58-105.
Kenneth Stein, The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).
4. The Second World War and Palestine
Required:
Bickerton and Klausner, 73-84.
Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 246-256.
Recommended:
Cohen, Origins and Evolution, 93-105.
Walter Laqueur, A History of Zionism (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972), 528-562.
5. Civil War and the End of the Mandate
Required:
Bickerton and Klausner, 84-106.
Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 256-268.
Recommended:
Cohen, Origins and Evolution, 106-132.
The films we watched so far are:
1. Pillar of Fire – chapter 1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjBSmqgkbxE
2. Pillar of Fire – chapter 2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEtzkFtLepo
3. Pillar of Fire – chapter 6- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNMNjSyjOk8
4. Pillar of Fire – chapter 7- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsknM-wZJl4
5. Al-Nakba – episode 1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7FML0wzJ6A
6. Al-Nakba- episode 2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2D5Fsd9lg
7. Al-Nakba- episode 3- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SKECszemmA
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