Zionism and the Arabs 1936-1939 (RLE Israel and Palestine)

<p>In this work first published in 1986 the author shows how the Zionists of the late Thirties related to the Arabs of Palestine and of the neighbouring countries to what extent they perceived the existence of an ‘Arab Question’ how they defined it and how they dealt with it. The Arab question is as old as the Zionist movement itself. From the moment that Zionists began to immigrate to Ottoman Palestine in the last decades of the nineteenth century it became apparent that they were not ‘returning’ to an empty land and that they could expect opposition to their enterprise from the inhabitants of the country they considered theirs. Comprising diplomatic political social economic and cultural history this book is a close analysis of the spectrum of views and opinions pertaining to Zionist relations with the Arabs.</p>