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Lecture 12: Israel and the Middle East

Prof. Joel Beinin

Internet Research Materials:

  • From Occupied Palestine Issues Archive(excellent source)
  • Amnesty International Reports, Israel and the Occupied Territories
  • BBC Online News, The Middle East
  • Jewish Virtual Library, A Guide to Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • Human Rights Watch, Israel, the Occupied Territories, and the Middle East
  • The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Maps
  • From Chechenization to Palestinization: Human Rights in Chechnya and North Caucasus (Memorial Group, Russia)
  • Questions for Seminar Discussions:

    • What are the differences and similarities between religious terrorism in the Middle East and Russia?

    Key terms:

    Balfour Declaration (1917)

    First Arab-Israeli War (1948)

    Second Arab-Israeli War (1967)

    Zionism and its dual character

    Labor Zionism

    Revisionist Zionism

    The Wailing Wall (Jerusalem)

    Settler-colonialism

    Dispossession

    Disenfranchisement

    Menachem Begin

    Yitzhak Shamir

    “Law of Return” (Israel)
    Israel Land Authority

    4th Geneva Convention

    Military Government (Palestine)

    The Oslo Declaration of Principles

    The Camp David agreement

    “Bantustan” (South Africa)

    “Collective punishment” (Palestine, Chechnya)

     
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