ISBN:
0231129785
Language:
English
Pages:
XXVIII, 467 S.
Year of publication:
2003
Series Statement:
The Institute for Palestine Studies series
DDC:
956.04
Keywords:
Nations Unies - Conciliation Commission for Palestine
;
United Nations.
;
Vereinte Nationen
;
Arabisch-Israëlisch conflict
;
Biens des réfugiés - Israël
;
Conflit israélo-arabe - Réclamations
;
Eigendom
;
Grond
;
Négociations diplomatiques dans les conflits internationaux
;
Palestijnen
;
Palestiniens - Réclamations
;
Vluchtelingen
;
Nahostkonflikt
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Claims
;
Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes
;
Palestinian Arabs Claims
;
Refugee property
;
Palästinenser
;
Nahostkonflikt
;
Enteignung
;
Flüchtling
;
Grundeigentum
;
Palästinensischer Flüchtling
;
Israel
;
Israel
;
Nahostkonflikt
;
Palästinensischer Flüchtling
;
Grundeigentum
;
Vereinte Nationen Conciliation Commission for Palestine
;
Israel
;
Palästinenser
;
Flüchtling
;
Enteignung
Abstract:
"From late 1947 through 1948, more than 726,000 Palestinians - over half the entire population - were uprooted from their homes and villages. Though some middleclass refugees were able to flee with liquid capital, the majority were small-scale farmers whose worldly fortunes were the land, livestock, and crops they left behind. This book tells for the first time the full story of how much property changed hands, what it was worth, and how it was used by the fledgling state of Israel. It then traces the subsequent decades of diplomatic activity on the issue and publishes previously secret UN estimates of the scope and value of the refugee property. Michael Fischbach offers a detailed study of Israeli counterclaims for Jewish property lost in the Arab world, diplomatic schemes for resolving the conflict, secret compensation efforts, and the renewed diplomatic efforts on behalf of property claims since the onset of Arab-Israeli peace talks." "Based largely on archival records, including those of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP), never before available to the public and kept under lock and key in the UN archives, Records of Dispossession is the first detailed historical examination of the Palestinian refugee property question."--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-446) and index
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