The Palestinian question is integral to the understanding of the conflict opposing the Hebrew State and the Arab World in our contemporary society. The objective of this course is to study, from a French point of view, the history of Palestine and the beginning of the national Palestinian movement from 1945 to the present. The political, diplomatic, and military aspects of this history are analyzed. The roles of the major political powers (United States, Russia, European Union) are also introduced. This course provides keys to understanding why the Israeli-Arab conflict still has no solution.
Method of presentation:
Lecture, discussion, regular readings to prepare for the class.
Required work and form of assessment:
Attendance and participation (10%); midterm (25%); term paper (25%); final exam (40%).
content:
I – The Fight for Palestine and the United Nations’ Plan for Partition (1945-1947)
II – The 1948 Israeli-Arab War and the Palestinian Exodus
III – Palestine’s Political Emergence in the 1950s and 1960s
IV – The Six-Day War and Its Consequences
V – From Black September to the Refusal of Camp David
VI – The PLO Crisis and Yasser Arafat’s First Compromises (1980-1990)
VII – From the Madrid Conference to the Oslo Accords: The Beginning of Palestinian Autonomy (1991-1995)
VIII – After Arafat and the Rapid Development of Hamas
Required readings:
de la Foye (Sylvie) et Nouailhat (Yves-Henri), Les Etats-Unis et l’islam, Armand Colin, 2ème édition, Paris, août 2009.
Baron (Xavier), Les Palestiniens : Genèse d’une Nation, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2003.
Recommended readings:
Cloarec (Vincent) et Laurens (Henry), Le Moyen-Orient au XXe siècle, Armand Colin, Paris, 2000, chapitre 9.
Daoud (Abou), Palestine : De Jérusalem à Munich, Editions Anne Carrière, Paris, 1999.
Enderlin (Charles), Paix ou guerres : les secrets des négociations israélo-arabes, 1917-1997, Stock, Paris, 1997, chapitre 11.
Gresh (Alain) et Vidal (Dominique), Palestine 47 : Un partage avorté, Editions Complexe, Bruxelles, 1994.
Hawa-Tawil (Raymonda), Palestine : Mon histoire, Le Seuil, Paris, 2001.
Hazan (Pierre), La guerre des Six Jours : la victoire empoisonnée, Editions Complexe, Bruxelles, 1989.
Hroub (Khaled), Le Hamas, Editions Demopolis, Paris, 2008.
Ménargues (Alain), Les larmes de la colère, Presses de la Renaissance, Paris, 1991.
Nouailhat (Yves-Henri) et de la Foye (Sylvie), Les Etats-Unis et l’islam, A. Colin, 2ème édition, Paris, août 2009, chapitre II.
Pappé (Ilan), La guerre de 1948 en Palestine : Aux origines du conflit israélo-arabe, La Fabrique Editions, Paris, 2000.
Picaudou (Nadine), Le mouvement national palestinien : Genèse et structures, L’Harmattan, Paris, 1989.
Razoux (Pierre), La guerre des Six Jours : Du mythe à la réalité, Économica, 2ème édition, Paris, 2006.
Rouleau (Eric), Les Palestiniens : D’une guerre à l’autre, La Découverte, Paris, 1984.
Said (Edward), Israël, Palestine : L’égalité ou rien, La Fabrique Editions, Paris, 1999.
Schiff (Ze’ev) et Ya’ari (Ehud), Intifada, Stock, Paris, 1991.
Vidal (Dominique) et Algazy (Joseph), Le péché originel d’Israël : L’expulsion des Palestiniens revisitée par les « nouveaux historiens » israéliens, Les Editions de l’Atelier, Paris, 2002.
Wallach (Janet et John), Arafat : La poudre et la paix, Bayard Editions, Paris, 1996.
The Palestinian question is integral to the understanding of the conflict opposing the Hebrew State and the Arab World in our contemporary society. The objective of this course is to study, from a French point of view, the history of Palestine and the beginning of the national Palestinian movement from 1945 to the present. The political, diplomatic, and military aspects of this history are analyzed. The roles of the major political powers (United States, Russia, European Union) are also introduced. This course provides keys to understanding why the Israeli-Arab conflict still has no solution.
Lecture, discussion, regular readings to prepare for the class.
Attendance and participation (10%); midterm (25%); term paper (25%); final exam (40%).
I – The Fight for Palestine and the United Nations’ Plan for Partition (1945-1947)
II – The 1948 Israeli-Arab War and the Palestinian Exodus
III – Palestine’s Political Emergence in the 1950s and 1960s
IV – The Six-Day War and Its Consequences
V – From Black September to the Refusal of Camp David
VI – The PLO Crisis and Yasser Arafat’s First Compromises (1980-1990)
VII – From the Madrid Conference to the Oslo Accords: The Beginning of Palestinian Autonomy (1991-1995)
VIII – After Arafat and the Rapid Development of Hamas