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Informationen zum Autor Ann M. Lesch is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at American University in Cairo. Ian S. Lustick is Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext The Israeli, Palestinian, and American contributors to this volume consider the catastrophic failure of the Oslo peace process and the years of bloody violence that ensued. Zusammenfassung The Israeli! Palestinian! and American contributors to this volume consider the catastrophic failure of the Oslo peace process and the years of bloody violence that ensued. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction 1. The Failure of Oslo and the Abiding Question of the Refugees —Ian S. Lustick and Ann M. Lesch PART I. COLLECTIVE MEMORIES AND ACTUAL CHOICES 2. Commemorating Contested Lands —Laleh Khalili 3. The Right of Return versus the Law of Return: Contrasting Historical Narratives in Israeli and Palestinian School Textbooks —Elie Podeh 4. Social Capital and Refugee Repatriation: A Study of Economic and Social Transnational Kinship Networks in Palestine/Israel —Sari Hanafi PART II. TRUTH AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES 5. Considerations Toward Accepting Historical Responsibility —Elazar Barkan 6. Negotiating Truth: The Holocaust, Lehavdil, and al-Nakba —Ian S. Lustick PART III. PRACTICAL MEANINGS OF EXILE AND RETURN 7. The Palestinian IDPs in Israel and the Predicament of Return: Between Imagining the Impossible and Enabling the Imaginative —Amal Jamal 8. No Refuge for Refugees: The Insecure Exile of Palestinians in Kuwait —Ann M. Lesch 9. The Vision of Return: Reflections on the Mass Immigration to Israel from the Former Soviet Union —Ze'ev Khanin PART IV. PROPERTY ISSUES FOR ARAB AND JEWISH MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES 10. Palestinian and Mizrahi Jewish Property Claims in Discourse and Diplomacy —Michael R. Fischbach 11. Arab Jews, Population Exchange, and the Palestinian Right of Return —Yehouda Shenhav 12. Palestinian Refugee Property Claims: Compensation and Restitution —Salim Tamari PART V. THE REFUGEE ISSUE IN CONTEXT 13. Truth and Reconciliation: The Right of Return in the Context of Past Injustice —Nadim H. Rouhana 14. The Visible and Invisible in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict —Ilan Pappé 15. Reflections on the Right of Return: Divisible or Indivisible? —Gershon Shafir Bibliography List of Contributors Index ...