Zionism, Palestinian Nationalism and the Law: 1939-1948

ISBN-13: 9781032125817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 476 str.

Steven E. Zipperstein

Opis

During the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine (1939-1948), Arabs and Jews used the law as a resource to gain leverage against each other and to influence international opinion.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Theoretical Framework  1. Framing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict  Part II: The London Conferences -- Zionism on Trial and the One-State Solution  2. Prelude to the London Conferences  3. The London Conferences  4. The White Paper  5. Appeal to the Permanent Mandates Commission  6. Assessment  Part III: The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry -- British Policy on Trial and the No-State Solution  7. Enter America; Formation of the Anglo-American Committee  8. Committee Hearings  9. Deliberations and Verdict  10. The Morrison-Grady Plan; Britain's Attempt to Undermine the Verdict  11. Assessment  Part IV: UNSCOP and the UN Ad Hoc Committee -- Palestinian Nationalism on Trial and the Two-State Solution  12. UNSCOP Hearings and Verdict  13. Ad Hoc Committee Hearings and Verdict  14. The General Assembly and the Two-State Solution  15. Assessment  Part V: Legal Consequences and Implications  16. Legal Consequences of the Palestinian Rejection of Statehood  Conclusion

O autorze

Steven E. Zipperstein, a former US federal prosecutor, is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and a Lecturer in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the UCLA Global Studies program, and in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara. Zipperstein is also a Visiting Proefssor of Law and Tel Aviv University, and is the author of Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Trials of Palestine (Routledge, 2020).