The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present. It also illustrates the move towards finding peace and the efforts to bring the horrors of the fighting to an end through negotiation and proposals for agreed boundaries. the prelude and background to the conflict - from the siting of the Palestinian Jews before the Arab conquest to the attitude of Britain to the Arabs between 1917 and the present; the Jewish national home - from the Zionist plan for Palestine in 1919 to the state of the Arab world from 1945 to 1962; the intensification of the conflict - from the Arab response to the UN partition plan of 1947 to the first steps towards the independence of Israel in 1948; the State of Israel - from the Israeli War of Independence and the Six Day War to the horrific War of Yom Kippur and the intifada; the moves to find peace - from Camp David to the escalating troubles of the present day, including the Geneva peace plan and the construction of the security fence.