This week we continue part two of our discussion of Palestine, Zionism, and Israel moving forward in time from the Suez war to consider the 1967 war through the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, shifting political rivalries, Palestinian resistance, and the continued role of outside forces such as the US.

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Seminar Questions:

What are the key factors shaping the conflict in the 1950s and 1960s?

What are the central factors leading to the outbreak of the 1967 war?

How have the events of 1967 transformed the situation?

Why was the PLO created and was it an ally or rival of al-Fatah?

How did the Israeli position on establishing settlements in the newly conquered territories develop after the 1967 war?

What were the major factors contributing to the outbreak of the 1973 war? What changes in American policy emerge after the war?

What does Kanafani tell us about the plight of Palestinian refugees as expressed in, Men in the Sun?

Readings:

Charles Smith, Palestine and the Arab Israeli Conflict (St. Martin's Press, 2016), pp. 258-340.

Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun (Three Continents: 1998), pp. 21-74.

Recommended Readings:

Nadia Abu El-Haj, Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, (University of Chicago Press, 2001).

Ilana Feldman, Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008).

William Roger Louis and Avi Shlaim, eds. The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Ilana Feldman, Police Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptaisn Rule (Stanford Univ. Press, 2015).

Nayrouz Qarmout, The Sea Cloak and other stories (Comma Press, 2017).