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Records of dispossession : Palestinian refugee property and the Arab-Israeli conflict
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Records of dispossession : Palestinian refugee property and the Arab-Israeli conflict

Author: Michael R Fischbach
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003.
Series: Institute for Palestine Studies series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"From late 1947 through 1948, more than 726,000 Palestinians - over half the entire population - were uprooted from their homes and villages. Though some middleclass refugees were able to flee with liquid capital, the majority were small-scale farmers whose worldly fortunes were the land, livestock, and crops they left behind. This book tells for the first time the full story of how much property changed hands, what  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael R Fischbach
ISBN: 0231129785 9780231129787
OCLC Number: 52541393
Description: xxviii, 467 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Refugee flight and Israeli policies toward abandoned property --
UNCCP's early activity on the refugee property question --
Early Israeli policies affecting the property question --
Early Arab and international policies toward the property question --
UNCCP technical program --
Follow up to the technical program --
Refugee property question after 1967.
Series Title: Institute for Palestine Studies series.
Responsibility: Michael R. Fischbach.
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"From late 1947 through 1948, more than 726,000 Palestinians - over half the entire population - were uprooted from their homes and villages. Though some middleclass refugees were able to flee with liquid capital, the majority were small-scale farmers whose worldly fortunes were the land, livestock, and crops they left behind. This book tells for the first time the full story of how much property changed hands, what it was worth, and how it was used by the fledgling state of Israel. It then traces the subsequent decades of diplomatic activity on the issue and publishes previously secret UN estimates of the scope and value of the refugee property. Michael Fischbach offers a detailed study of Israeli counterclaims for Jewish property lost in the Arab world, diplomatic schemes for resolving the conflict, secret compensation efforts, and the renewed diplomatic efforts on behalf of property claims since the onset of Arab-Israeli peace talks." "Based largely on archival records, including those of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP), never before available to the public and kept under lock and key in the UN archives, Records of Dispossession is the first detailed historical examination of the Palestinian refugee property question."--Jacket.

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