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Description:

Join Professor Kevin Jones for this session covering the early history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the beginning of the British Mandate to the creation of the state of Israel. We will cover four key thematic questions: (1) Why were the Zionists more successful than the Palestinians in establishing organizations and institutions that could function as the nucleus of an independent state? (2) Why did Palestinians turn from diplomacy to resistance and rebellion against both Britain and the Zionists during the course of the colonial period, and how successful was the strategy of violence? (3) How did the relatively small Israeli army (IDF) so decisively defeat the much larger combined forces of the Palestinians and their Arab state allies? (4) Did the Palestinian refugees “flee” or were they “expelled” from their homes during the 1948 war, and why has the ensuing Palestinian refugee crisis endured for so much longer than other comparable refugee crises?

Kevin Jones is Associate Professor of History and Department Head at the University of Georgia. He earned his PhD in History from the University of Michigan and was a PostDoctoral Research Fellow at the George Washington University Institute for Middle East Studies before beginning his current position at the University of Georgia. His work has appeared in Social History, and his book, The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq, was published by Stanford University Press in 2020.

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