Backdrop to Tragedy: The Struggle for Palestine
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- DEDICATION -- MAPS -- TABLES -- INTRODUCTION -- Important Dates in the History of Palestine -- Part I. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- 1. OUT Of THE PAST -- 2. THE COMING OF ISLAM -- 3. THE CRUSADES -- 4. THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- 5. THE GREAT POWERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- 6. THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE -- 7. THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND ITS SPORE -- 8. EMIR FEISAL AND DR. WEIZMANN -- 9. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MANDATE -- 10. MATERIAL GROWTH AND THE GATHERING STORM -- 11. THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON -- 12. FROM WAR TO WAR -- 13. INQUIRIES, REPORTS, AND PLANS -- 14. THE MANDATE'S LAST BITTER DAYS -- Part II. JEWISH INTERESTS IN PALESTINE-by David M. Stamler -- 1. THE AGE-OLD LONGING -- 2. THE EUROPEAN BACKGROUND -- 3. THE BIRTH OF POLITICAL ZIONISM -- 4. THE LAND OF PROMISES -- 5. INTERNAL CONFLICTS -- 6. THE SEEDS OF CONFLICT -- 7. THE WAR AND THE BILTMORE PROGRAM -- 8. ANGLO-AMERICAN REACTIONS -- 9. POSTWAR AND ECONOMIC PLANS -- 10. A UNITED NATIONS SOLUTION: THE STATE IS BORN -- 11. EAST AND WEST: THE PROBLEM OF ABSORPTION -- 12. POLITICS IN ISRAEL -- 13. RELIGION AND THE STATE -- Part III. THE ARABS AND PALESTINE-by William R. Polk -- 1. "THE EXISTING NON-JEWISH COMMUNITIES" -- 2. THE ARAB GENTRY -- 3. THE ARAB ELEMENT IN ARABISM -- 4. MODERN ARAB NATIONALISM -- 5. THE REACTION TO ZIONISM -- 6. PAN-ARABISM -- 7. WAR, REFUGEES, AND HUMILIATION -- Part IV. THE ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK OF THE PALESTINE PROBLEM-by Edmund Asfour -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE MANDATE PERIOD -- 3. THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE -- 4. IMMIGRATION AND LAND -- 5. LAND AND CAPITAL -- 6. ECONOMICS OF THE REFUGEE PROBLEM -- 7. THE ECONOMY OF ISRAEL -- 8. ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE ARABS -- Part V. CONCLUSION -- CONCLUSION -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- I GENERAL -- A) WORKS ON PERIOD BEFORE 1914: -- B) WORKS ON PERIOD AFTER 1914.