Records of Dispossession by Michael R Fischback 2003 Hardback 0231129785

Very Good Condition. Dust Cover has shelving wear. 467 Pages. Synopsis "Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Institute for Palestine Studies Series) First Edition. No issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict has proven more intractable than the status of the Palestinian refugees. This work focuses on the controversial question of the property left behind by the refugees during the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Beyond discussing the extent of the refugees' losses and detailing the methods by which Israel expropriated this property, the book also notes the ways that the property question has affected, and in turn been affected by, the wider Arab-Israeli conflict over the decades. It shows how the property question influenced Arab-Israeli diplomacy and discusses the implications of the fact that the question remains unresolved despite numerous diplomatic efforts. From late 1947 through 1948, more than 726,000 Palestinians―53-09-29-24-355