Exile And Return

The Israeli, Palestinian, and American contributors to this volume consider the catastrophic failure of the Oslo peace process and the years of bloody violence that ensued.

Ann M. Lesch is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at American University in Cairo. Ian S. Lustick is Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Preface

vii

Introduction

1. The Failure of Oslo and the Abiding Question of the Refugees

Ian S. Lustick and Ann M. Lesch

3

(16)

Part I. Collective Memories and Actual Choices

2. Commemorating Contested Lands

Laleh Khalili

19

(22)

3. The Right of Return versus the Law of Return: Contrasting Historical Narratives in Israeli and Palestinian School Textbooks

Elie Podeh

41

(16)

4. Social Capital and Refugee Repatriation: A Study of Economic and Social Transnational Kinship Networks in Palestine/Israel

Sari Hanafi

57

(28)

Part II. Truth and Political Consequences

5. Considerations Toward Accepting Historical Responsibility

Elazar Barkan

85

(21)

6. Negotiating Truth: The Holocaust, Lehavdil, and al-Nakba

Ian S. Lustick

106

(27)

Part III. Practical Consequences of Exile and Return

7. The Palestinian IDPs in Israel and the Predicament of Return: Between Imagining the Impossible and Enabling the Imaginative

Amal Jamal

133

(28)

8. No Refuge for Refugees: The Insecure Exile of Palestinians in Kuwait

Ann M. Lesch

161

(22)

9. The Vision of Return: Reflections on the Mass Immigration to Israel from the Former Soviet Union

Ze'ev Khanin

183

(24)

Part IV. Property Issues for Arab and Jewish Migrants and Refugees

10. Palestinian and Mizrahi Jewish Property Claims in Discourse and Diplomacy

Michael R. Fischbach

207

(18)

11. Arab Jews, Population Exchange, and the Palestinian Right of Return

Yehouda Shenhav

225

(21)

12. Palestinian Refugee Property Claims: Compensation and Restitution

Salim Tamari

246

(15)

Part V. The Refugee Issue in Context

13. Truth and Reconciliation: The Right of Return in the Context of Past Injustice

Nadim N. Rouhana

261

(18)

14. The Visible and Invisible in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Ilan Pappé

279

(18)

15. Reflections on the Right of Return: Divisible or Indivisible?

Gershon Shafir

297

(22)

Bibliography

319

(24)

List of Contributors

343

(4)

Index

347

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