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1. Palestinians in Lebanon -- 2. Foreign state patronage and Palestinian proxy mobilisation -- 3. Patronage and the dynamic of PLO entrenchment in Lebanon -- 4. The parameters of factional power : patronage and competing clienteles in the camp -- 5. Camp as economic resource : rent-seeking and territoriality -- 6. The racket society -- 7. UNRWA and the moral hazard of Palestinian exceptionalism.

This sociological study explores refugee camps in Jordan, where refugees of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict share their plight and narrative of the Nakbeh (Catastrophe) of 1948. This book does not propose solutions; rather, it highlights the human side of the Palestinian trauma and the urgent need for a just solution.

Examining the development of Israel's policy toward the Palestinian refugee issue, this book spans the period following the first Arab-Israeli War until the mid-1950s, when the basic principles of Israel's policy were finalized. Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Issue outlines and analyzes the various aspects that, together, created the mosaic of the ""refugee problem"" with which Israel has since had to contend. These aspects include issues of repatriation, resettlement, compensation, blocked bank accounts, internal refugees and family reunification. Drawing on extensive archival research, th

Intro -- Table of Contents -- First : Sample and Procedures of the Poll : -- Second : Personal Information : -- Third : Possibility of Returning to Palestine : -- Fourth : Settling the Palestinian Refugees Problem: -- Fifth : The Palestinian Weapons -- Sixth : Lebanese Authority Assuming Responsibility of Security All over the Palestinian Camps -- Seventh : Supporting Palestinian Movements : -- Eighth : The Presidency of All Palestinians (Inside andOutside Palestine) : -- Ninth : Performance of Movements towards Palestinians in Lebanon : -- Tenth : Performance of the Palestinian Movements with Regardto Serving Palestinian National Struggle -- Eleventh : Support to Hamas' Refusal to Recognize Israel

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Glossary -- Part I: Kuwait -- Chapter 1. The Cube, East -- Chapter 2. Dance, Ruby River -- Chapter 3. Um Buraq -- Part II: Iraq -- Chapter 4. The Cube, West -- Chapter 5. Six Months -- Part III: Jordan -- Chapter 6. The Cube, North -- Chapter 7. Unsteady Earth -- Part IV: Palestine -- Chapter 8. The Cube, South -- Chapter 9. The Layers of Absence -- Chapter 10. A World Beneath & -- "Our Spot" Above -- Part V: Jordan, Again -- Chapter 11. The Cube, Up & -- Down -- Chapter 12. Money Softens the Heart -- Part VI: Palestine, Always -- Chapter 13. The Cube, the Space Between -- Chapter 14. Anatomy of Home -- Chapter 15. Chaos Theory -- Chapter 16. Harvest -- Chapter 17. Homecoming -- Chapter 18. A Time for Us -- Chapter 19. Redeeming History -- Part VII: Between Freedom -- Chapter 20. The Cube, the Unreachable Beyond -- Chapter 21. Day One -- Chapter 22. Week Two -- Chapter 23. Week Three -- Chapter 24. Weeks Four & -- Five -- Chapter 25. Weeks Six, Seven, Eight & -- Nine -- Chapter 26. Joy -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright.

From the refugee camps in Lebanon to the relative prosperity of life in the USA, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed across the world. In this pioneering study, Helena Lindholm Schulz examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been formed in the diaspora through constant longing for a homeland lost. In so doing, the author advances the debate on the relationship between diaspora and the creation of national identity as well as on nationalist politics tied to a particular territory. But The Palestinian Diaspora also sheds light on the possibilities opened up by a transnational

I: Evolving Israeli policies and indigenous resistance -- Present absentees and indigenous resistance / Nur Masalha -- The state of Israel versus the Palestinian internal refugees / Hillel Cohen -- Patterns of internal displacement, social adjustment and the challenge of return / Nihad Boqa'i -- Forced sedentarisation, land rights and indigenous resistance: the Palestinian Bedouin in the Negev / Isma'el Abu-sa'ad -- II: Palestinian oral history and memory -- "A muted sort of grief": tales of refuge in Nazareth (1948-2005) / Isabelle Humphries -- Kafr Bir'im / William Dalrymple -- The Nakba, oral history and the Palestinian peasantry: the case of Lubya / Mahmoud 'Issa -- Unrecognised villages: indigenous 'Ayn Hawd versus artists' colony 'Ein Hod / Jonathan Cook -- The Nakba in Hebrew: Israeli-Jewish awareness of the Palestinian catastrophe and internal refugees / Eitan Bronstein -- III: Human rights and international protection -- The real road map to peace: international dimensions of the internal refugee question / Ilan Pappe -- International protection and durable solutions / Terry Rempel.