The Politics of Denial - Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem

Informationen zum Autor Nur Masalha is Palestinian Historian and Director of the Centre for Religion and History at St. Mary's University. He is the author of many books on Palestine-Israel, including The Palestine Nakba (Zed, 2014), The Politics of Denial (Pluto Press, 2003) and Imperial Israel and the Palestinians (Pluto Press, 2000). Klappentext The 1948 war ended in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. Israeli settlers moved in to occupy their land and the Palestinian refugees found themselves expelled. Today there are nearly four million Palestinian refugees - and they want the right to go home.Since 1948 Israeli refugee policy has become a classic case of denial: the denial that Zionist 'transfer committees' had operated between 1937 and 1948; denial of any wrong doing or any historical injustice; denial of the 'right of return'; denial of restitution of property and compensation; and indeed denial of any moral responsibility or culpability for the creation of the refugee problem.This book analyses Israeli policies towards the Palestinian refugees as they evolved from the 1948 catastrophe (or nakba) to the present. It is the first volume to look in detail at Israeli law and policy surrounding the refugee question. Drawing on extensive primary sources and previously classified archive material, Masalha discusses the 1948 exodus; Israeli resettlement schemes since 1948; Israeli approaches to compensation and restitution of property; Israeli refugee policies towards the internally displaced ('present absentees'); and Israeli refugee policies during the Madrid and Oslo negotiations. Zusammenfassung The largest and most enduring refugee problem in the world

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nur Masalha
• Verlag: Pluto
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.10.2003
• EAN: 9780745321202
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2120-2
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Israel, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Palestine, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)