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  • From Vision to Reality

    Imagining the Future of the Arabs in the Jewish State

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    Series series Perspectives on Israel Studies
    From Vision to Reality traces how Zionist leaders imagined the place of Palestinian Arabs in a future Jewish state and how those ideas were tested in the turbulent years before and during 1948.Drawing on a plethora of archival sources, author Itamar Radai follows the work of the Emergency Committee that planned Israel's governing apparatus in 1947–48, showing that its members assumed a large Arab ... Read more

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  • Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948

    A Tale of Two Cities

    by Itamar Radai ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    Between November 1947 and May 1948 war between the Palestinian Arab community and the Jewish community encompassed Palestine, with Jerusalem and Jaffa becoming focal points in the conflict due to their centrality, size and symbolic importance.Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948 examines Palestinian Arab society, institutions, and fighters in Jerusalem and Jaffa during the conflict. It is one ... Read more

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