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Includes bibliographical references and an Index

1. Introduction: new historiographical orientation in the research on the Palestine Question Ilan Pappé Part 1. The History of Palestine rediscovered 2. Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: writing Palestinians into history Beshara B. Doumani 3. The rise of the sanjak of Jerusalem in the late nineteenth century Butrus Abu-Manneh Part 2. The origins of Zionism in Palestine reconsidered 4. The colonization perspective in Israeli sociology Uri Ram 5. Zionism and colonialism: a comparative approach Gershon Shafir Part 3. The New History of 1948 6. Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution Walid Khalidi 7. Historial Truth, Modern Historiography, and Ethical Obligations: The Challenge of the Tantura Case Ilan Pappé 8. The debate about 1948 Avi Shlaim Part 4. Women's History 9. Minor Marriages and Khiyar al-Bulugh in Ottoman Paleatine: A note on women's strategies in a patriarchal society Mahmoud Yazbak 10. From salons to the popular committees: Palestinian women, 1919-89 Islad Jad Part 5. The Palestinians in Israel 11. Crime and Legal Control The Israeli Arab Population during the Military Government Period (1948-66) Alina Korn 12. Palestinian in Israel Under the Israeli "Ethnocratic" Regime As?ad Ghanem 13. Present Absentees and Indigenous Resistance Nur Masalha

An explicitly revisionist collection that takes the ground away from pro-Israeli historians and suggests a far more nuanced view of the issue,The Israel/Palestine Questionassimilates diverse interpretations of the origins of the Middle East conflict with emphasis on the fight for Palestine and its religious and political roots. Drawing largely on scholarly debates in Israel during the last two decades, which have become known as 'historical revisionism,' the collection presents the most recent developments in the historiography of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a critical reassessment of Israel's past. The volume commences with an overview of Palestinian history and the origins of modern Palestine, and includes essays on the early Zionist movement, the 1948 war, international influences on the conflict and the Intifada.