{"product_id":"the-birth-of-the-palestinian-refugee-problem-19471949-cambridge-middle-east-library-series-number-15","title":"The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem  19471949 (Cambridge Middle East Library  Series Number 15)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first full-length study of the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem. Based on recently declassified Israeli  British and American state and party political papers and on hitherto untapped private papers  it traces the stages of the 19479 exodus against the backdrop of the first Arab-Israeli war and analyses the varied causes of the flight. The Jewish and Arab decision-making involved  on national and local levels  military and political  is described and explained  as is the crystallisation of Israels decision to bar a refugee repatriation. The subsequent fate of the abandoned Arab villages  lands and urban neighbourhoods is examined. The study looks at the international context of the war and the exodus  and describes the political battle over the refugees fate  which effectively ended with the deadlock at Lausanne in summer 1949. Throughout the book attempts to describe what happened rather than what successive generations of Israeli and Arab propagandists have said happened  and to explain the motives of the protagonists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964945920053,"sku":"ByrdShop_0521330289","price":314.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780521330282.jpg?v=1770485436","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-birth-of-the-palestinian-refugee-problem-19471949-cambridge-middle-east-library-series-number-15","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}