ABSTRACT

Although the intricacies of Middle Eastern politics and society have long been a popular subject in the West, recent interest of many Europeans and Americans has been generated and sustained largely by a single topic - the Arab-Israeli dispute. To outsiders this has become 'the' Middle East conflict. To Arabs, it is the' Palestine question' or the question of , Zionism' and 'imperialism'. And to most Jews and Israelis it is known as the 'Arab question'. This book is written primarily from the latter perspective.