From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949

From Coexistence to Conquest seeks to explain how the Arab-Israeli conflict developed by looking beyond strict legalism to the men behind the policies adopted by the Great Powers at the dawn of the twentieth century. It controversially argues that Zionism was adopted by the British Government in its 1917 Balfour Declaration primarily as an immigration device and that it can be traced back to the 1903 Royal Commission on Alien Immigration and the Alien’s Act 1905.

The book places the violent ...