From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem Until 1948

by Walid Khalidi 1971, with a second printing in 1987

Commentary: Book published by Institute for Palestine Studies; ISBN: 0887281559; (Second printing, October 1987).

This is an anthology edited by Walid Khalidi. Authors of the articles included in the anthology are: Ilene Beatty, Alfred Guillaume, Burhan Ad-Din al Fazari, Miguel Asin, Cecil Roth, Stanley Lane-Poole, Elmer Berger, Zia Al-Khalidi, Oskar K. Rabinowicz, L. M. C. van der Hoeven Leonhard, Herbert Sidebotham, Edwin Montagu, Leonard Stein, Frank E. Manuel, J. M. N. Jeffries, Chaim Weizmann, Arthur Balfour, Louis D. Brandeis, Eustace Percy, Felix Frankfurter, W. F. Stirling, C. R. Ashbee, Chaim Arlosoroff, Michael Ionides, Vincent Sheean, Sir John Hope Simpson, Kingsley Martin, Alan Bullock, Ernest Main, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Nevill Barbour, Michael F. J. McDonnell, R. J. Manning, Sir Alec Seath Kirkbride, Frances E. Newton, Mahatma K. Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, Leonard Mosley, A. Granott, Thomas Reid, Jon Kinche, David Kimche, Robert Briscoe, Stephen Wise, Morris L. Ernst, William Ernest Hocking, William A. Eddy, Kermit Roosevelt, Lieut.-General Sir Frederick Morgan, Francis Williams, Robert A. Divine, James V. Forrestal, Walter T. Stace, Abba Eban, Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, General Carlos P. Romulo, Arnold Krammer, Lieut.-General Netanel Lorch, Jacques de Reynier, Harry Levin, Major R. D. Wilson, Lieut.-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, General aage Lundstrom, Erskine B. Childers, Hans Kohn.

Abstract: From the Book Description: Now a classic in its field, From Haven to Conquest is a unique compendium of difficult-to-obtain or out-of-print material on Zionism and the history of Palestine to 1948. Eighty documents and first-hand accounts are supplemented by an introduction by Professor Khalidi, 22 maps and 30 pages of appendices providing detailed demographic and military statistics.
Extracts available online include:

• On the Anti-Semitism of the Present Government, by Edwin Montagu, August 1917

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Article/book #1184: From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem Until 1948By: Walid Khalidi
Date of issue: 1971, with a second printing in 1987
ISBN: 0887281559
Topic(s) addressed:

• 1947 UN Partition Plan
  
• Anti-Semitism and Zionism
  
• British Mandate period in Palestine
  
• Historiography of the Israel/Palestine conflict
  
• League of Nations and Palestine
  
• Nakbah/Naqba (Arabic, "the catastrophe") -- expulsion of Palestinians in 1948
  
• Palestinian refugees
  
• Ethnic cleansing (euphemistically called "transfer")
  
• United Nations and Israel/Palestine
  
• Brith Habirionim or Brit HaBiryonim (Hebrew "the Covenant of Thugs")

Timeline event(s) mentioned in this item:
31 Aug 1945: Truman asks Attlee to admit 100,000 Jews into Palestine 29 Nov 1947: United Nations General Assembly approves UNSCOP partition plan for Palestine