ABSTRACT
Jewish-Non-Palestinian-Arab Negotiations: The First Phase
Eliezer Tauber
Negotiations between Zionists and non-Palestinian Arabs from the beginning of the Young Turk rule until the start of the Mandatory era are the subject of this essay. It assesses the various organizations that looked to negotiate with the Zionist Movement and shows the complex, and at times contradictory, motivations behind Arab sympathy and hostility towards the Zionist project. It also looks at various (fruitless) efforts to foster possible Arab-Zionist negotiations in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
