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 EDGAR MORIN. Israël-Palestine : Le double regard

    (BULLETIN INTERACTIF DU CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES ET ÉTUDES TRANSDISCIPLINAIRES (CIRET) BULLETIN N° 12 Février 1998

Jay Harris (Harvard University) "The Israeli declaration of independence" (Textual Reasoning 7, 1998)

Risposte a Harris     Ruth Abrams  Allan Arkush  David Myers
    il  Volume 7, 1998 (sezione 1. Text Study 1998) è dedicato al tema  "Megillat Ha'atsma'ut -- Israel's Declaration of Independence after 50 Years"

http://www.israel-palestine.com/articlespresse.htm

CONFERENCE INTERNATIONALE "PALESTINE ENTRE SIONISME ET ISRAELISME" 14 - 15 MAI 1998, GENEVE
("PALESTINE BETWEEN ZIONISM AND ISRAELISM")  (Arabo)

Government, Religion and Hate Entwined in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, By Kestley Albaugh

"Communities of Hate:  This course will examine broadly how aberrations of   collective identity can lead to hate. Issues and questions   that we consider are: How are identities formed (e.g.  individual, collective)? How are communities imagined?   Are race ethnicity, and gender purely ideological notions?  What is the symbolic process by which groups or societies   create the "Other"? What are the underlying psychological principles of hate? Specific examples (the   Holocaust, the war in Bosnia, and the politics of hate in the United States ) will be used as case studies to explore".

        Dag Jørund Lønning, Israeli ways of conceptualising the enemy and implications for Israeli-Palestinian grassroots dialogue

The third Nordic conference on Middle Eastern Studies: Ethnic encounter and culture change - Joensuu, Finland, 19-22 June 1995

The fourth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern studies The Middle East in a Globalizing World Oslo, 13-16 August 1998 Proceedings Archive

    LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE PRÉSENTE Un cahier spécial sur le Proche-Orient Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, mai 2001
                       israel       palestine       conflitisraeloarabe
 
 

Israel: The Revised Version A Review for Third Way of "Righteous Victims : A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999" by Benny Morris (London, John Murray, 2000)      (XII - 2001)

    "The French philosopher Ernest Renan apparently once defined a nation satirically as "a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours." Unravelling the causes of the long and convoluted Arab-Israeli conflict is in many ways an unenviable and Herculean task, at least for the individual historian, let alone to the mutual satisfaction of both Zionists and the 'new historians', a phrase first coined by Benny Morris in 1988. The search for peace in the Middle East, as much as its historical analysis, has become intractable, clichéd in its complexity, with every dispute traceable to centuries of animosity and mutual mistrust, fuelled by cycles of violence and revenge, justified by sacred texts and the deep conviction that each side are the 'righteous victims' of the other. ....."

Azure •SPRING  5760 /2000      (XII - 2001)
    From the Editors: Making History

"Israel's "new historians" have come of age. It was scarcely a decade ago that books such as Benny Morris' Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (1987) and Tom Segev's The Seventh Million (1991) appeared, heralding the arrival of a cadre of young Israeli historians radically at odds with the way that previous scholars had recounted the story of Zionism. In particular, the new historians painted a highly unflattering picture of Israel's founding, centered around the Zionist leadership's mistreatment of the Arabs during and after the War of Independence (Morris) and its errors of omission and commission towards the victims and survivors of the Holocaust (Segev). At the time, the new perspective on Israel's past was generally dismissed as a fringe phenomenon, and only a handful of names were associated with it. Since then, however, scholars openly identified with the new history—and with the similar treatment of Zionism in disciplines such as political science, sociology and philosophy—have grown appreciably in numbers and influence. Many of them have earned coveted tenure-track positions at Israeli universities, while their views have been widely disseminated by the Israeli media, especially in the daily Ha'aretz (Israel's equivalent of The New York Times), and most spectacularly in Tekuma, Israel Television's 1998 documentary miniseries on the Jewish state's first fifty years. ....."
What is Azure?    "Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation presents the best in Jewish and Israeli thought from the Jewish state and around the world. Published simultaneously in English and Hebrew, Azure goes beyond the headlines to provide thought-provoking analysis of the latest cultural and intellectual trends in the Jewish world. Through diverse contributors from across the religious and political spectra, Azure champions the strength and relevance of Jewish tradition and the centrality of a strong, free and Jewish State of Israel for the future of the Jewish people. Azure maintains editorial offices in both Jerusalem and Washington, D.C."

ETHAN BRONNER, Israel: The Revised Edition.  Two historians offer re-examinations of the Zionist-Arab conflict.
    (Len & Libby Traubman's Family Homepage - Published in the New York Times - Book Reviews - November 14, 1999)       (XII - 2001)

" .....  The traditional history of the Jewish state portrays Zionism as a pure, almost nave movement of young socialists who fled European anti-Semitism beginning in the 1880's to return to the land of their forefathers. Palestine, this history relates, was a neglected arid strip with a small Jewish population and a larger but still insignificant Arab one. ......."
".....    Arab scholars and some outsiders have long dismissed this narrative as false and self-serving. But until the middle 1980's, few Israelis saw much to challenge there. Then, with the opening of Israeli state archives and the maturation of a young generation of historians, many of them trained abroad (Shlaim and Morris are among the most prominent examples), Israeli scholars began to question key elements of that history. They declared that the old history was myth, and that they were writing the ''new history.'' They have thus collectively become known as Israel's ''new historians,'' and when their work built up the critical mass of a genuine scholarly movement in the early years of this decade, it created quite a storm. ....."

NADINE PICAUDOU, LA RÉVISION HISTORIOGRAPHIQUE SE POURSUIT    Israël, les Arabes et le « mur d'acier »       (XII - 2001)
(LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE | AOÛT 2000 | Page 31 http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2000/08/PICAUDOU/14138)

"Les négociations de camp David, qui se sont poursuivies pendant la seconde moitié du mois de juillet, ont montré le caractère indispensable d'une connaissance rigoureuse de l'histoire. Dans cet esprit, après s'être attachés à la relecture du conflit de 1948 suite à l'ouverture, en 1978, des archives israéliennes et britanniques, les « nouveaux historiens » israéliens prolongent, chacun à leur manière, la révision des mythes fondateurs de l'Etat, avec la publication de deux nouveaux ouvrages majeurs : Righteous Victims. A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict 1881-1999 , de Benny Morris, et The Iron Wall. Israel and the Arab World , d'Avi Shlaïm - auxquels s'ajoute, en France, la traduction du livre d'Ilan Pappé, La Guerre de 1948 en Palestine. Aux origines du conflit israélo-arabe . "

Michel Peyrard, Cinquante ans après l’indépendance d’Israël, jamais les jeunes Israeliens ne se sont autant battus... Entre eux       (XII - 2001)
    Les 50 ans d'Israël : Cinq guerres pour la paix

DEREK J. PENSLAR,  A Skeptical Scholar Re-Examines Israel's Struggles With Benny Morris's 'Righteous Victims,' the Israeli New History Comes of Age    ("Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999" By Benny Morris).       (XII - 2001)

MARC PERELMAN,    Scholars Clash at Israel History Confab       (XII - 2001)

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