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Poli 347: Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace
Winter 2015
Course Meetings: MW 8:35-9:25 am, ENGMC 204
Professor: Julie M. Norman, PhD ([email protected])
Office: Leacock 432
Office Hours: TBA
Teaching Assistants:
Course Description
How do we understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? How did it begin? How has it changed over
time? What is it ultimately about? How can examining the political history of the region enable us to
think more critically and creatively about proposed solutions to the conflict? In this course, we look
at the conflict through a historical lens to gain a better understanding of the political dynamics
leading up to today. Specifically, we approach the conflict through contested histories, comparing
and contrasting the narratives of Israelis, Palestinians, and other regional actors, and relating them to
primary documents and materials that have come to define the conflict over time. We explore how
these various narratives, histories, and experiences both shape and challenge our understanding of
the present-day conflict and its contemporary issues.
Required Readings:
- Caplan, Neil. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Additional readings available on MyCourses or (online when indicated).
See also http://naip-documents.blogspot.ca/ for access to additional primary documents.
Grading
- Participation (10 points) - Students are expected to attend lectures and conferences and
participate in discussions and activities.
- Presentation/facilitation (10 points): Students will sign up to facilitate the reading discussion in
one conference meeting with team members. Further guidelines will be posted online.
- Book Review (20 points): Students will choose a biography, autobiography, or memoir of a person
whose life or work focuses on the conflict and write a 5-6 page book review discussing the person’s
work and assessing the book itself. Further guidelines will be posted online. No late papers accepted.
Due Feb. 25.
- Midterm (30 points): In-class midterm scheduled for Wednesday, Mar. 11. All students are
expected to be present on the day of the exam.
- - Final (30 points): Note that there are several options for the final assignment. All finals are due
Monday, April 13, the last day of class. No late papers accepted.
- 1) Complete the take-home final.
OR
- 2) With instructor’s approval, write a term paper (10-12 pp, double-spaced) to analyze a
particular aspect of the conflict. Topics due by Mar. 20 (please post in discussion thread on
MyCourses).
OR
3) Alternatively, with the instructor’s approval, choose to analyze the conflict through a creative
project of your choice, such as producing a short film, developing a website, etc. Students can choose
to work individually or in pairs. Proposals due by Mar. 20 (please post in discussion thread on
MyCourses).
Statement of Academic Integrity
McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore, all students must understand the meaning
and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student
Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/ for more
information).
Language Policy
In accord with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights, students in this course have the right
to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded.
Schedule
Week 1: Jan. 7-9: Introduction
- Caplan, Ch. 1-2, “Problems in Defining the Conflict,” and “Defining the Conflict, Nevertheless,” pp. 138
Recommended:
- Edward E. Azar, et. al, “Protracted Social Conflict; Theory and Practice in the Middle East,” Journal of Palestine Studies 8, no. 1
(Autumn 1978): 41 - 60.
- Kelman, Herbert C., “The Interdependence of Israeli and Palestinian National Identities: The Role of the Other in Existential
Conflicts,” Journal of Social Issues 55, no. 3 (1999): 581-600.
Week 2: Jan. 12-14: Conflict Origins & Background
- Caplan, Ch. 3 “Background to 1917,” pp. 41-55 (book)
- Walter Laqueur, A History of Zionism. New York: MJF Books, 1972, pp. 589- 599.
- Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity, New York: Columbia University Press 1998, pp. 145-177.
Primary documents (links via MyCourses):
- Theodor Herzl, “Der Judenstaat”
- The Basle Declaration
“The McMahon Letter” (1915)
“The Sykes-Picot Agreement” (1916)
“The Balfour Declaration” (1917)
Recommended:
- Samih K. Farsoun, Palestine and the Palestinians. Boulder, 1997.
- Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.
- Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1995.
Week 3: Jan. 19-21: British Mandate to Independence/Nakba
(Conferences Begin)
- Caplan, Ch. 4: “Arabs and Jews Under the British Mandate: Entrenching Positions 19171928,” pp. 56-78.
- Caplan, Ch. 5: “Collapse of the Mandate: Rebellion, Partition, White Paper, 1929-1939,” pp.
79-100.
- Caplan, Ch. 6: “Shoah, Atzma’ut, Nakba: 1939-1949,” pp. 101-130.
- - Benny Morris, “Revisiting the Palestinian exodus of 1948,” in Eugene Rogan and Avi Shlaim
(eds), The War for Palestine (Cambridge, 2001), 37-59.
Primary Documents (links on MyCourses):
UN Security Council Resolution 181, The Partition of Palestine (1947)
UN General Assembly Resolution 194 (1948)
Recommended:
- Herbert Sidebotham, “British interests in Palestine,” in Walid Khalidi, From Haven to Conquest, 125-142
- Shlomo Katz, “Understanding Jewish Resistance in Palestine: The Aims and Methods of the Hagana.” Commentary (July 1946).
- Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge, 1987).
- Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: One World, 2006.
- Benny Morris, Nur Masalha, Norman Finkelstein, “Debate on the 1948 exodus,” Journal of Palestine Studies 11/1 (Autumn,
1991), 66-119
- Mohammed Dajani Daoudi & Robert Satloff, “Why Palestinians Should Learn About the Holocaust,” New York Times 29 March
2011.
Week 4: Jan. 26-28: Arab-Israeli Wars
- Caplan, Ch. 7: “Israel and the Arab States, 1949-1973,” pp. 131-159.
- David Tal, “Israel’s Road to the 1956 War,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 28, no. 1
(February 1996): 59 - 81.
- Norman Finkelstein, “To Live or Perish: Abba Eban reconstructs the June 1967 War”, in Image and
Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (New York, 1995), 123-149 (Note especially pp. 144-149)
- Laura James, “Nasser and his Enemies: Foreign Policy Decision Making in Egypt on the Eve of the Six
Day War,” MERIA 9, no. 2 (June 2005): 23-38.
Primary Documents (links via MyCourses):
- UN Security Council Resolution 242
- Abba Eban, “Speech at the Special Assembly of the United Nations June 19, 1967
(http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/11/Abba%20Eban)
Recommended:
- Michael Oren, “Did Israel want the Six Day War?” The Jerusalem Post 14/5/07
(http://www.jpost.com/Features/Article.aspx?id=61307)
- Gershon Shafir, “The Miscarriage of Peace: Israel, Egypt, the United States, and the ‘Jarring Plan’ in the Early 1970s,” Israel
Studies Forum 21, no. 1 (Summer 2006): 3–26. (MUSE)
- Bahgat Korany, “The Glory That Was? The Pan-Arab, Pan-Islamic Alliance Decisions, October 1973,” International Political
Science Review 5, no. 1 (1984): 47 –74.
Week 5: Feb. 2-4: Redefining Israel and Palestine? Camp David, Lebanon, and First Intifada
- Caplan, Ch. 8, “Back to the Core: Israel and the Palestinians,” pp. 160-177
- Caplan, Ch. 9, “From Camp David to the West Bank to Lebanon,” pp. 178-194
- James A. Reilly, “Israel in Lebanon, 1975-82,” MERIP Reports, no. 108/109 (SeptemberOctober 1982): 14-20.
- Salim Tamari, “What the Uprising Means.” Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israel. Zachary
Lockman and Joel Beinin (eds). Boston: South End Press, 1989. Pp. 127-138 (Ch. 9).
Recommended:
- Kaminer, Reuven. “The Protest Movement in Israel,” in Lockman & Beinin, Pp. 231-245.
- Seth Anziska, “A Preventable Massacre,” NYT, 16 Sept. 2012, (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/apreventable-massacre.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all)
- David Grossman, The Yellow Wind. New York: Farrar, Sraus, and Giroux, 1988.
- Johnson, Penny, Lee O’Brien, and Joost Hiltermann. “The West Bank Rises Up.” Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against
Israel. Zachary Lockman and Joel Beinin (eds). Boston: South End Press, 1989. Pp. 29-40.
- Baruch Kimmerling, “Making Conflict a Routine: The Cumulative Effects of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Upon Israeli Society,”
Journal of Strategic Studies, 6(3) 1983: 13-45. (MUSE)
- Avi Shlaim "The Lebanese Quagmire: 1981-1984,” The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, WW. Norton and Co.: New York,
2000
- Anne Grace, “The Tax Resistance at Bayt Sahur,” Journal of Palestine Studies 19.2 (Winter, 1990), pp. 99-107.
- Mary King, The Quiet Revolution
- Smith, “From Pariah to Partner: The PLO and the Quest for Peace in Global and Regional Contexts, 1984-1993”
- Ziad Abu-Amr, “The Politics of the Intifada,” in Michael C. Hudson, ed. The Palestinians: New Directions, Washington, DC:
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1990, pp. 3-23.
Film: Waltz With Bashir
Week 6: Feb. 9-11: Oslo Peace Process (& Domestic Politics)
- Caplan, Ch. 10, “From Boycott to Mutual Recognition”
- Charles Smith: “Israeli-Palestinian/Arab Negotiations and Agreements, 1993-1999,” in Palestine and
the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Sara Roy, "Why Peace Failed: An Oslo Autopsy" pgs. 233-249 in Failing Peace: Gaza and the
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Sara Roy, Pluto Press: London, 2007
- Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, “Camp David: The tragedy of errors”, The New York Review of
Books, August 9, 2001 (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2001/aug/09/camp-davidthe-tragedy-of-errors/)
- Dennis Ross, Gridi Gristein, Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, “Camp David: An exchange”. The New York
Review of Books, September 20, 2001,
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2001/sep/20/camp-david-an-exchange/)
Recommended:
- Jerome Slater, “What Went Wrong? The Collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process,” Political Science Quarterly, vol.116
no. 2, 2001.
Ross, The Missing Peace, pp. 256-349
- Robinson, Glenn. “Being Yasir Arafat.” Foreign Affairs (November/December 2003).
(http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/59377/glenn-e-robinson/being-yasir-arafat-a-portrait-of-palestine-s-president)
- Graham Usher, Dispatches from Palestine: The rise and fall of the Oslo peace process
- Draft of the Road Map, Journal of Palestine Studies 32, no. 2 (Winter 2003): 169 - 171.
Week 7: Feb.16-18: External Actors: US, Canada, Europe, Arab League, UN
Wednesday: Guest Lecture?
- Mearsheimer & Walt, “The Israel Lobby” LRB 28.6 (2006) (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/johnmearsheimer/the-israel-lobby)
- Then read: David Remnick, “The Lobby.” The New Yorker 3 September
2007(http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2007/09/03/070903taco_talk_remnick)
- Donald Barry, “Canada and the Middle East Today,” Arab Studies Quarterly 32.4 (Fall 2010)
- Lars Faaborg-Andersen, “Europe’s key message to Israel, the Palestinians: Make peace, we’ll
support you,” Haaretz 6 July 2014. (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israelpeace-conference/1.601978)
- Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, “Arabs vs. the Abdullah Plan,” Middle East Forum XVII. 3 (Summer 2010),
3-12 (http://www.meforum.org/2729/arabs-vs-abdullah-plan)
Recommended:
- Ariel Ilan Roth, “Reassurance: A Strategic Basis of U.S. Support for Israel,” International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 10, No. 4
(2009), pp. 378-393.
- Ben Birnbaum & Amir Tibon, “The Explosive, Inside Story of How John Kerry Built an Israel-Palestine Peace Plan—and
Watched It Crumble,” New Republic 20 July 2014 (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118751/how-israel-palestine-peacedeal-died)
- Mark Lander, “Potent Pro-Israel Group Finds Its Momentum Blunted,” NYT, 3 Feb 2014
(http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/world/middleeast/potent-pro-israel-group-finds-its-momentum-blunted.html?_r=2)
- Mitchell Bard, “The Arab Lobby: The American Component,” Middle East Quarterly XVII: 4 (Fall 2010), pp. 3-15.
-• William B. Quandt, Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Since 1967 (Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution Press, 2005): 1 - 20. (Google Books, http://books.google.ca/books?id=rmCPnSghbcC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false)
William B. Quandt, “Clinton and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Limits of Incrementalism,” Journal of Palestine Studies 30, no.2
(Winter 2001): 26 - 40.
- Steven L. Spiegel, The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America’s Middle East Policy, From Truman to Reagan (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1985): pp. 1-15 (introduction) (available via Google Books)
- Scott Wilson, “Where Obama Failed on Forging Peace in the Middle East,” Washington Post, 15 July 2012,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-searches-for-middle-east-peace/2012/07/14/gJQAQQiKlW_story.html
- Brynen, Rex. “Canada's Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process”. In Paul Heinbecker and Bessma Momani, eds, Canada
and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007). (available via MUSE as e-book)
- Mark Gollom, “Harper’s Support for Israel: Political, Philosophical, or Both?” CBC 7 Dec 2012
(http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/12/05/f-stephen-harper-israel.html)
- “Canadian Policy on Key Issues in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development Canada (13
January 2014), http://www.international.gc.ca/name-anmo/peace_process-processus_paix/canadian_policypolitique_canadienne.aspx?lang=eng
- Nabeel Shaath, “How Stephen Harper has weakened Canada’s status in Palestine,” Globe & Mail, 21 January 2014
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/how-stephen-harper-has-weakened-canadas-status-inpalestine/article16404242/
- Elena Aoun, “European Foreign Policy and the Arab-Israeli Dispute: Much Ado About Nothing,” European Foreign Affairs
Review 8 (2003): 289 - 312.
Week 8: Feb. 23-25: Second Intifada & Gaza Wars
- Assaf Mogadham, “Palestinian Suicide Terrorism in the Second Intifada: Motivations and
Organizational Aspects.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 26.6 (2003): 65-92.
- Nathan Brown, “The Hamas-Fatah Conflict: Shallow but Wide,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs,
Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer 2010), 35-49.
- Daniel Byman and Natan Sachs, “The Rise of Settler Terrorism,” Foreign Affairs 19.5 (Sep/Oct
2012): 73-86.
- Mouin Rabbani, “Israel Mows the Lawn,” London Review of Books 36.15 (July2014)
- Efraim Inbar, “Hamas was Defeated, Until Next Time,” BESA Center Perspectives Paper No.
269, September 1, 2014.
Recommended:
- Ghassan Hage, "Comes a Time We Are All Enthusiasm": Understanding Palestinian Suicide Bombers in Times of
Exighophobia,” Public Culture 15.1 (Winter 2003), pp. 65-89
- Glenn Robinson, “Hamas as a Social Movement,” in Islamic activism: a social movement theory approach, ed.
Quintan Wiktorowicz
- Sara Roy, Ch. 17 “Hamas and the Transformation(s) of Political Islam in Palestine”
- Gerard DeGroot, “The enemy below: Why Hamas tunnels scare Israel so much,” WP, 26 July 2014
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-enemy-below-why-hamas-tunnels-scare-israel-somuch/2014/07/25/c7ef0902-1281-11e4-9285-4243a40ddc97_story.html?hpid=z3)
- Rema Hammami and Salim Tamari, “The Second Uprising: End or New Beginning?”
Journal of Palestine Studies XXX, no. 2 (Winter 2001): 5 - 25.
- Maia Carter Hallward. “Uses and Abuses of International Law in Operation Cast Lead.” Nonviolent Resistance in
the Second Intifada: Activism and Advocacy. New York: Palgrave, 2011.
- Stuart Cohen, “The Futility of Operation Cast Lead.” BESA Center Perspectives Papers No. 68, February 16,
2009 (; http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/perspectives68.html)
MARCH 2-6: Reading Week, NO CLASSES
Week 9: Mar. 9-11 Review & Midterm
March 11: Midterm
(No conferences)
Week 10: Mar. 16-18: NGOs & Grassroots Peacebuilding
- Maia Hallward, “Creative Responses to Separation: Israeli and Palestinian Joint Activism in Bil’in”
Journal of Peace Research (2009)
- Mohammed Abu-Nimer, “Religious Leaders in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Violent
Incitement to Nonviolent Resistance.” Nonviolent Resistance in the Second Intifada: Activism and
Advocacy, eds. Maia Carter Hallward and Julie M. Norman. New York: Palgrave, 2011. 87-110.
- Robert Hershorn, Peacing Together Conflicted Identities: Cultural Dominance, Affectivity and
Bridgebuilding Amongst Moderate Israelis and Palestinians, Dissertation, Simon Fraser University, 2012.
Chapters 3-4.
Film: Budrous or Encounter Point
Recommended:
- Julie M. Norman, The Second Palestinian Intifada: Civil Resistance. London: Routledge, 2010.
- Manuel Hassassian and Edy Kaufman, “Israeli-Palestinian Peace-Building: Lessons Learnt.” European Platform for Conflict
Prevention and Transformation. (http://www.gppac.net/documents/pbp_f/part1/9_lesson.htm)
- Just Vision website (www.justvision.org)
- Kathleen Parker. “The best hope for Mideast peace? Facebook.” The Washington Post, 4 September 2010.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090304363.html)
Week 11: Mar. 23-25: International Media & Solidarity Movements
- Marda Dunsky, Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli–Palestinian
Confict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
- Sean F. McMahon, “The Boycott, Divestment, sanctions campaign: contradictions and challenges,”
Race & Class 55.4 (Apr-June 2014), 65-81.
- Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Israel, Ch. 30, “Should Universities Divest from Israel?”
See also: A. Dershowitz, “10 reasons why BDS is immoral and hinders peace,” CIJA
(http://www.cija.ca/bds/ten-reasons-why-bds-is-immoral-and-hinders-peace/)
- Noam Chomsky, “On Israel-Palestine and BDS,” The Nation 2 July 2014
(http://www.thenation.com/article/180492/israel-palestine-and-bds)
Recommended:
- Bakan, Abigail, and Yasmeen Abu-Laban. “Palestinian resistance and international solidarity: the BDS campaign,” Race &
Class, Vol. 51, No. 1, 29-54 (2009)
- Eyal Winter, “Why are Brits who know so little about Israel so active against it?” Ha’aretz 29 Aug 2014
(http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/.premium-1.612950)
- Joseph Rosen, “The Israel Taboo,” The Walrus 11.1 (Jan/Feb 2014)
- - “The Mavi Marmara at the Frontlines of Web 2.0,” Diana Allan and Curtis Brown Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 40, no. 1
(Autumn 2010), p. 63 ( available through MUSE or at http://www.palestinestudies.org/journals.aspx?id=10844&jid=1&href=fulltext)
-Friel, Howard, and Richard Falk. Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East.
London: Verso, 2007. Pp. 135-142 (Ch. 5, “Double Standards”).
- R.L. Stein. Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony, and the Gaza War. Journal for Cultural Research
(special issue on Arab Cultural Studies) 2012.
- R.L. Stein. “ StateTube: Anthropological Reflections on Social Media and the Israeli State.” Anthropological Quarterly 2012.
- Maia Carter Hallward, Transnational Activism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
- Zreik, Raef. “Palestine, Apartheid, and the Rights Discourse.” Journal of Palestine Studies 34.1 (2004): 68-80.
- Joel Warner & Peter McGraw, “Looking for Humor in the West Bank,” WP 11 Apr 2014
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-west-bank-is-hilarious/2014/04/11/4ee3422a-c020-11e3-b195dd0c1174052c_story.html)
Week 12: Mar. 30-Apr. 1: The Peace Process & the Two-State Solution
- Barak Ravid, “The secret fruits of the peace talks, a future point of departure?” Haaretz 5 July 2014.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-peace-conference/.premium-1.603028
- Yuval Diskin, “The changing face of the Middle East presents new opportunities for IsraeliPalestinian peace,” Ha’aretz 6 July 2014 (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israelpeace-conference/1.601486).
- Ari Shavit, “The old Mideast peace paradigm is dead; this is the new one,” Haaretz 3 July 2014
(http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-peace-conference/1.601482)
- Ian Lustick, “Two State Illusion,” New York Times 16 Sept 2013
(MyCourses)(http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/opinion/sunday/two-state-illusion.html)
(See also responses: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/opinion/a-two-state-criticand-his-critics.html?src=recg&_r=0)
Recommended:
- Naftali Bennett, “For Israel, Two-State is No Solution,” New York Times 7 Nov 2014
(http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/opinion/naftali-bennett-for-israel-two-state-is-nosolution.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-spanregion&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0)
- Ben Birnbaum & Amir Tibon, “The Explosive, Inside Story of How John Kerry Built an Israel-Palestine Peace Plan—and
Watched It Crumble,” New Republic 20 July 2014 (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118751/how-israel-palestine-peacedeal-died)
- Bernard Avishai, “A Plan for Peace that Could Still Be.” NYT 7 Feb.
2011(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/magazine/13Israel-t.html?_r=1)
- Yadin Kaufmann, “The economic case for peace,” Haaretz 9 July 2014 (http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.603899)
- Yonatan Touval, “What the Mideast peace process needs,” Washington Post, 5 January 2014. (recognition of Israel as Jewish
state)
- WINEP, “Imaging the Border”
- “Is Peace Possible?” Interactive Map. http://www.ispeacepossible.com/howTo.htm
Week 13: Apr. 6-8: Alternatives to the Two-State Solution
- Ghada Karmi, “The One-State Solution: An Alternative Vision for Israeli-Palestinian Peace,” Journal
of Palestine Studies 40.2 (2011): 62-76.
- Oren Yiftachel, “Colonial Deadlock or Confederation for Israel/Palestine?” Insight 87, 2013
(http://www.academia.edu/3824741/Colonial_Deadlock_or_Confederation_for_Israel_Palestine)
- Marwan Muasher, “Palestinian-Israeli Direct Talks: The Case for a Regional Approach,” Carnegie
Commentary (August 2010).
(http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=41421)
- “Should Nations Recognize a Palestinian State?” New York Times 17 Oct 2014
(http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/10/16/should-nations-recognize-a-palestinianstate?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nytregion&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region)
Recommended:
- - James Ron, “Palestine, the UN, and the One-State Solution,” Middle East Policy, Vol. 18 Issue 4 (Winter 2011), pp. 59-67.
- “Two States in One Space,” IPCRI (http://www.ipcri.org/index.php/projects/research-and-information/64-confederationsolution-to-the-conflict)
- Miriam Fendius Elman, Oded Haklai, and Hendrik Spruyt, Democracy and Conflict Resolution
The Dilemmas of Israel’s Peacemaking, Syracuse University Press, 2013.
- “Could Two Become One?” The Economist 18 March 2013 (http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21573559israels-right-frustrated-palestinians-and-assorted-idealistic-outsiders-are-talking-futures)
- Carlo Strenger, “Pscyhological obstacles to peace in Israel,” Haaretz 3 July 2014.
(http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-peace-conference/1.601122)
- David Grossman, “On hope and despair in the Middle East,” Haaretz July 8, 2014
(http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-peace-conference/1.601993)
- Paul L. Scham, “The Historical Narratives of Israelis and Palestinians and the Peacemaking Process,” Israel Studies Forum 21,
no. 2 (Winter 2006): 58-84.
Guest Speaker – Neil Caplan
Monday, April 13: Wrap-Up
Final papers/projects due. No late papers accepted.
- Caplan, Ch. 12