Case for Palestine an international law perspective

Rev. and expanded ed. of: Palestine and Israel. 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Zionist settlement in Palestine : the British connection -- Zionist-Arab conflict under the British Mandate : the struggle for land -- Things fall apart : the collapse of the British Mandate -- A portrait by Picasso : the UN recommendation of partition -- Chaos on the ground : Palestine in a power vacuum -- Whose land to give? : the UN power over Palestine -- Sten guns and barrel bombs : the realization of the Zionist dream -- Kaftans and yarmulkes : the claim of ancient title to Palestine -- Arab vs. Zionist : war of independence or war of aggression? -- Exodus : the departure of the Palestine Arabs -- To justify a state : Israel as a fact -- The real conquest : the repopulation of Palestine -- The present are absent : the fate of the Arabs' land -- Hewers of wood : Arab commerce, agriculture, and labor -- The national institutions : the legislation that makes Israel Jewish -- Holding the soil : Arab access to land -- The law of ingathering : nationality and citizenship -- Divide and conquer: Arabs in Israel's political system -- Protecting privilege : Arabs and governmental services -- Some are more equal : ethnic distinctions in the law of Israel -- No peace : war always on the horizon -- Mortal danger? : the 1967 Israel-Arab War -- Déjà vu : Israel's control of the West Bank and Gaza -- More land : confiscation and settlements -- More hewers of wood : commerce, agriculture, and labor -- By the sword : the Palestine Arabs' claim of a right to resist -- Guns and stones : resistance by the Palestine Arabs to occupation -- Statehood in the making : Palestine declares independence -- Oslo via Madrid : a turn to peace? -- Talks fail : the sword replaces the pen -- Jerusalem and the settlements : who should stay? -- The displaced : where will they go? -- The way forward : peace or confrontation?.