From Coexistence to Conquest
International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949
The legal history of the conflict's origins, argued alongside rather than separately from the political history.
Victor Kattan’s legal history of the Palestine conflict from the Balfour Declaration to the aftermath of 1948, arguing that the law and the politics cannot be understood apart. He traces how the Mandate system, competing readings of self-determination, the Partition Plan and the question of statehood were shaped by imperial interests, and how Arab-Jewish coexistence in Palestine gave way to conquest. Includes archival material from the British and League of Nations records.
Recommended by 1 Person
Raja Shehadeh
I’m a lawyer as well as a writer so I’m interested in the legal aspects of the Palestinian conflict. Many books look at the legal side and many more at the history. This book combines the two: Kattan believes you can’t understand one without the other. I absolutely agree with him.
Interview · February 2011
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