- Hardcover: 456 pages
- Publisher: Pluto Press (20 Jun 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745325793
- ISBN-13: 978-0745325798
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,194,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is an elegant and forceful narrative by a young Palestinian scholar. (Boutros Boutros Ghali, Former UN Secretary-General )
By placing international law within its proper political and historical context, Victor Kattan offers a fresh analysis of a conflict with far-reaching implications for the region and beyond. ... A welcome addition to the search for a peace in the Middle East with human dignity for all its peoples at its centre. (His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan )
Differing historical narratives and competing legal claims have characterized the Palestinian issue for over a hundred years. Victor Kattan gives them new meaning in his excellent study, which contains much new historical material and many new legal insights. (John Dugard, Professor of Public International Law Emeritus, Leiden University and UN Special Rapporteur to the Occupied Palestinian Territories 2000-2008 )
A well-researched and extremely informative book... One of the best on the subject. (Dr Anis al-Qasem, former Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Palestinian National Council )
Lucid and Scholarly work. Kattan explains how Jews and Palestinians were tragically caught up in the net of Great Power politics. His critique of Zionism, while robust, fully acknowledges the oppression that the Jews of Europe suffered through antisemitism, a subject that he treats with sensitivity and insight. ... This book could contribute to its resolution. (Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow and Tutor, St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford. )
This is a book that students of the Israel / Palestine question will find impossible to ignore. It serves as a very readable introduction to the dispute from its origins up to 1949, but approaches the material from the angle of an international lawyer as well as a historian ... It is in Kattan’s fresh examination of the legal questions that the book’s chief originality lies. (John McHugo, Executive Member of The Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
By placing international law within its proper political and historical context, Victor Kattan offers a fresh analysis of a conflict with far-reaching implications for the region and beyond. ... A welcome addition to the search for a peace in the Middle East with human dignity for all its peoples at its centre. (His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan )
Differing historical narratives and competing legal claims have characterized the Palestinian issue for over a hundred years. Victor Kattan gives them new meaning in his excellent study, which contains much new historical material and many new legal insights. (John Dugard, Professor of Public International Law Emeritus, Leiden University and UN Special Rapporteur to the Occupied Palestinian Territories 2000-2008 )
A well-researched and extremely informative book... One of the best on the subject. (Dr Anis al-Qasem, former Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Palestinian National Council )
Lucid and Scholarly work. Kattan explains how Jews and Palestinians were tragically caught up in the net of Great Power politics. His critique of Zionism, while robust, fully acknowledges the oppression that the Jews of Europe suffered through antisemitism, a subject that he treats with sensitivity and insight. ... This book could contribute to its resolution. (Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow and Tutor, St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford. )
This is a book that students of the Israel / Palestine question will find impossible to ignore. It serves as a very readable introduction to the dispute from its origins up to 1949, but approaches the material from the angle of an international lawyer as well as a historian ... It is in Kattan’s fresh examination of the legal questions that the book’s chief originality lies. (John McHugo, Executive Member of The Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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From Coexistence to Conquest seeks to explain how the Arab-Israeli conflict developed by looking beyond strict legalism to the men behind the policies adopted by the Great Powers at the dawn of the twentieth century. It controversially argues that Zionism was adopted by the British Government in its 1917 Balfour Declaration primarily as an immigration device and that it can be traced back to the 1903 Royal Commission on Alien Immigration and the Alien’s Act 1905. The book contains the most detailed legal analysis of the 1915-6 Hussein-McMahon correspondence, as well as the Balfour Declaration, and takes a closer look at the travaux préparatoires that formed the British Mandate of Palestine. It places the violent reaction of the Palestine Arabs to mass Jewish immigration in the context of Zionism, highlighting the findings of several British commissions of inquiry which recommended that Britain abandon its policy. The book also revisits the controversies over the question of self-determination, and the partition of Palestine. The Chapter on the 1948 conflict seeks to update international lawyers on the scholarship of Israel’s ‘new’ historians and reproduces some of the horrific accounts of the atrocities that took place from newspaper reports, UN documents, and personal accounts, which saw the expulsion and exodus of almost an entire people from their homeland. The penultimate chapter argues that Israel was created through an act of conquest or subjugation. The book concludes with a sobering analysis of the conflict arguing that neither Jews nor Arabs were to blame for starting it.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am mightily impressed by this book. The scholarship is superb, it has balanced and level-headed exposition, felicity of expression and damning clarity. It's style is condensed, analytical and tightly written, and requires some concentration, but dull it most certainly is not. It is an important subject in today's world, and Victor Kattan is to be congratulated. It is the more important because if (like me) you had grown up with the everyday understanding about how the state of Israel came into being, and how it has been treated, you cannot read this without either changing your view
significantly or continuing with a prejudice that in others is damaging
the world. It should be compulsory reading for all diplomats.
significantly or continuing with a prejudice that in others is damaging
the world. It should be compulsory reading for all diplomats.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Excellent book, very informative, even for someone who lived all his life in Palestine,worked with the United Nation on the Palestinian issue. No matter if you are an International Law expert or a newspaper reader, the book will give you what you need to know about the Arab Israeli conflict. It sheds the light on issues that were not explored before. The author has a unique way in explaining the connections between colonial Europe and the Zionist movement. The book is an excellent argument tool for the Palestinian cause without denying any historical fact in Palestine or in Europe. It argue using documents originated in Europe by the colonial powers or the Zionist movement themselves .It has a great use for the Palestinians in their struggle to take back their rights.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Victor Kattan is a Teaching Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In his foreword, Professor Richard Falk, Professor of International Law at Princeton University, writes that Kattan's critique of Zionism acknowledges the oppression that Europe's Jews suffered through anti-Semitism.
Kattan writes, "the focus of this book is on the international law and politics of the period when Britain ruled over Palestine as the mandatory power." He notes, "It was European anti-Semitism and British colonialism which caused the conflict in Palestine." As Arnold Toynbee wrote many years ago, Britain bears the primary responsibility for starting the conflict.
Kattan examines the Balfour Declaration, the establishment and operation of the Mandate, the Partition proposal and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948-49. He shows how the British government violated the Covenant of the League of Nations, which had made it responsible for protecting the population. Britain had the legal and moral duty to lead the Palestinian people towards full independence and sovereignty.
Official reports admitted, "any anti-British feeling on the part of the Arabs that may have arisen in the country originates in their association of the Government with the furtherance of the policy of Zionism." "In less than ten years three serious attacks have been made by Arabs on Jews. For eighty years before the first of these attacks there is no recorded instance of any similar incidents. It is obvious then that the relations between the two races during the past decade must have differed in some material respect from those which previously obtained."
Kattan points out that in 1948, "The Zionists were, after all, the first side to launch large-scale military operations with the intention of capturing as much of Palestine as possible, including the area allotted to the Arab state in the UN Partition Plan, at the beginning of April by implementing Plan Dalet, some six weeks before the Arab states intervened in defence of the Palestinian Arabs."
He writes, "the partition of Palestine was impracticable, most probably illegal, contrary to the League of Nations Covenant, the Mandate and the UN Charter, manifestly unjust to the Arabs, and ultimately unenforceable."
The Zionist claim to Palestine is based on a `right of return' which they deny to the 750,000 Palestinians they unlawfully expelled from their homes in 1948-49. Only Jews can `return' to Israel, even if they have never been there before.
International law obliges Israel to withdraw to the 1967 borders, dismantle its illegal settlements and the illegal Separation Wall, to share control over Jerusalem, and to accept the Palestinian refugees' right of return.
Kattan writes, "the focus of this book is on the international law and politics of the period when Britain ruled over Palestine as the mandatory power." He notes, "It was European anti-Semitism and British colonialism which caused the conflict in Palestine." As Arnold Toynbee wrote many years ago, Britain bears the primary responsibility for starting the conflict.
Kattan examines the Balfour Declaration, the establishment and operation of the Mandate, the Partition proposal and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948-49. He shows how the British government violated the Covenant of the League of Nations, which had made it responsible for protecting the population. Britain had the legal and moral duty to lead the Palestinian people towards full independence and sovereignty.
Official reports admitted, "any anti-British feeling on the part of the Arabs that may have arisen in the country originates in their association of the Government with the furtherance of the policy of Zionism." "In less than ten years three serious attacks have been made by Arabs on Jews. For eighty years before the first of these attacks there is no recorded instance of any similar incidents. It is obvious then that the relations between the two races during the past decade must have differed in some material respect from those which previously obtained."
Kattan points out that in 1948, "The Zionists were, after all, the first side to launch large-scale military operations with the intention of capturing as much of Palestine as possible, including the area allotted to the Arab state in the UN Partition Plan, at the beginning of April by implementing Plan Dalet, some six weeks before the Arab states intervened in defence of the Palestinian Arabs."
He writes, "the partition of Palestine was impracticable, most probably illegal, contrary to the League of Nations Covenant, the Mandate and the UN Charter, manifestly unjust to the Arabs, and ultimately unenforceable."
The Zionist claim to Palestine is based on a `right of return' which they deny to the 750,000 Palestinians they unlawfully expelled from their homes in 1948-49. Only Jews can `return' to Israel, even if they have never been there before.
International law obliges Israel to withdraw to the 1967 borders, dismantle its illegal settlements and the illegal Separation Wall, to share control over Jerusalem, and to accept the Palestinian refugees' right of return.
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