Face-Lifting Palestine
Early Western Accounts of the Palestinian Refugee Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2156232 |
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| Authors | Lodewijk Van Oord (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-35 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02757206.2011.546853 |
| OpenAlex | W1983178782 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
The traditional historical narrative on the origins of the Palestinian refugee problem argues that the large majority of Palestinian Arab refugees left their homeland voluntarily, acting upon the orders of their own political and military leaders. Historical research has been able to scrutinize these perceptions, and it can be demonstrated that the narrative of voluntary exile almost certainly originated in Israeli government circles during the early stages of the 1948 Israel–Palestine war. This paper analyses the publications of a large number of western witnesses of the 1948 war. While most of these writers stay well within the parameters of the traditional discourse, a few are more critical in their analyses of the causes of the Palestinian exodus. Many western eyewitnesses in Palestine understood human history as a redemptive process, and through this lens the "re‐establishment" of a Jewish state became a significant chapter in the natural and inevitable cumulative progress of western civilization. Within this frame of mind, the refugee problem was a relatively minor nuisance that should not hinder the admirable developments in Palestine spurred by the Zionist enterprise
Ancient history · Civilization · Face (sociological concept · Government (linguistics · Homeland · Jewish state · Literature · Mandatory Palestine · Narrative · Palestine · Palestinian refugees · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society
The intimate enemy
Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire
Law and revolution
The intimate enemy
Palestine, Land of Promise
And After
And After
The Founding Myths of Israel
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited
The War for Palestine
Rewriting The History of 1948
The Vicissitudes of the 1948 Historiography of Israel
The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Note on Recent Works on Palestine and Israel
The Debate about 1948
What Price Israel
Jew and Arab in Palestine
Literature on Israel 1948-1950
In Search of a Future
The Making of Primitive Palestine
| Highly cited | No |
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