False inheritance

Michael Rice

False Inheritance is a timely and penetrating review of the Arab-Israeli conflict over Palestine by a writer with a special and long-established relationship with the Arab States, particularly the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf. Against the background of the latest developments in the confrontation between the Palestinians and Israel, but taking into account the viewpoint of the non-Palestinian Arabs, it considers why the presence of the Zionist State in the Middle East is so profound an affront to the Arabs' sense of history and continuity and why its continued existence as an exclusivist Jewish State is a perpetual threat to the stability and peace of the region. Beginning with the antecedents of the present situation, the work analyses the uses to which archaeology has been put to provide a justification for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. In line with developments...

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