1st Edition
Zionism, Palestinian Nationalism and the Law 1939-1948
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical Framework
1. Framing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Part II: The London Conferences -- Zionism on Trial and the One-State Solution
2. Prelude to the London Conferences
3. The London Conferences
4. The White Paper
5. Appeal to the Permanent Mandates Commission
6. Assessment
Part III: The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry -- British Policy on Trial and the No-State Solution
7. Enter America; Formation of the Anglo-American Committee
8. Committee Hearings
9. Deliberations and Verdict
10. The Morrison-Grady Plan; Britain's Attempt to Undermine the Verdict
11. Assessment
Part IV: UNSCOP and the UN Ad Hoc Committee -- Palestinian Nationalism on Trial and the Two-State Solution
12. UNSCOP Hearings and Verdict
13. Ad Hoc Committee Hearings and Verdict
14. The General Assembly and the Two-State Solution
15. Assessment
Part V: Legal Consequences and Implications
16. Legal Consequences of the Palestinian Rejection of Statehood
Conclusion
Biography
Steven E. Zipperstein, a former US federal prosecutor, is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and a Lecturer in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the UCLA Global Studies program, and in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara. Zipperstein is also a Visiting Proefssor of Law and Tel Aviv University, and is the author of Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Trials of Palestine (Routledge, 2020).
