List of Tables, Exhibits, and Figures
Foreword by Dr Salman Abu Sitta
About the Author
Glossary
1. Introduction
2. People of the Land
A Cultural Melting Pot
The Nabateans
Cultural and Religious Symbiosis in Canaan
Origins of Native People
Palestinians
3. Biology and Ideology
Eugenics, Population Genetics, and Political Ideology
Genetics and the Bible
Genetics versus Zionist Mythology
4. Palestinian Refugees and Their Right to Return
Early Designs for Population Removal
Why Did the Palestinians Leave?
Intention, Rhetoric, and Reality
Consequences of Al-Nakba
Continued Ethnic Cleansing versus Justice and Repatriation
Desirability and Feasibility of Return
5. Jerusalem (Ur-Salem, Yerushalaym, Al-Qods) as a Pluralistic City
Jebusites and Jerusalemites
Changing Powers, Eternal People
Jerusalem under Islamic Rule
Twentieth-century Nationalism
Reunification or Apartheid and Exclusion
The Future: A City of Peace
6. Zionism
Christian Zionism and Colonialism
Zionism Taking Root among European Jewish Communities
Zionism after 1948
Is Zionism the Other Side of the Coin of Anti-Semitism?
A Post-Zionist Discourse
7. Is Israel a Democracy?
Basic Analysis of the "Basic Laws"
"Absentee" Laws
Institutionalized Discrimination
8. Terrorism and Violence
Seeds and Roots of Terrorism
Fear
Terrorism in the Land of Canaan
Resistance versus Terrorism
Justice Brings Peace, Injustice Perpetuates Violence
9. Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Torture
Targeting Civilians
Human Rights as Cornerstone for Peace | 10. The Conflict and Sustainable Development
Palestinian and Israeli Economies and Societies: Separate and Unequal
Changes since 1991
Water
Environmental Degradation
Prosperity with Equality and Sustainability
11. Political Context
Natives and Zionists: An Inevitable Clash?
Britain and France and the Zionist Program
Britain Hands the Torch to the US
Israeli Political Discourse
An Era of Peace?
Palestinian Political Discourse
Oslo Accords
Might Makes Right?
12. International Context and International Law
Early International Failures
An Illegal Partition
The Fourth Geneva Conventions
UNSC Resolution 242, 338, and More
13. Peace can be Based on Human Rights and International Law
Zionist Discourse
Reality not Conducive to Two State Solutions
The Politics of Justice
Altruism is Pragmatic
We Have Been There, Done That
The Power of Coexistence and Non-violent Direct Action
Psychological and Physical Apartheid
An Inevitable Solution
Index
List of Tables, Exhibits, and Figures
Table 1. Growth of Jewish Population of Palestine over the Years (in thousands)
Table 2. Christian and Muslim Palestinian Population by Year
Exhibit 1. Zionist Arguments against the Right to Return
Exhibit 2. Ten Principles that Amnesty International Articulated for a Durable Peace Based on Human Rights (press release, 26 March 2001)
Exhibit 3. Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations (1948)
Exhibit 4. Other Relevant UN General Assembly Resolutions Passed by Overwhelming Majorities
Exhibit 5. Draft Framework
Figure 1. Evolution of the Semitic alphabet.
Figure 2. The history of map changes in the land of Canaan for the past 83 years. |