Losing Israel (24 page)

There are many sources for village statistics, including Walid Khalidi’s
All That Remains,
and Benny Morris’s
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem
. The figures vary. Historians’ population statistics are based on projections from British surveys, including the Census of Palestine in 1931. The website
www.palestineremembered.com
includes extensive material, including oral history interviews in Arabic. On the question of Arab ‘collaboration’, see Hillel Cohen’s
Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).

A great deal has been written on the kibbutz experiment. Melford Spiro’s
Children of the Kibbutz
was an important volume, and in addition to Amia Lieblich’s
Kibbutz Makom
I relied on Avraham Balaban,
Mourning a Father Lost: a Kibbutz Childhood Remembered
(Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), Daniel Gavron,
The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia
(Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and Naama Sabar,
Kibbutzniks in the Diaspora
(Albany: SUNY, 2000).

For autobiographical and fictional works exploring the Palestinian experience see, for example, Mourid Barghouti’s
I Saw Ramallah
(London: Bloomsbury, 2004), Raja Shehadeh’s
Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape
(London: Profile, 2008), Suad Amiry,
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries
(New York: Anchor, 2006), and Samir El-Youssef’s
The Illusion of Return
(London: Halban, 2008). For fictional treatment of Israeli-Arab experience see Sayed Kashua’s
Dancing Arabs
(New York: Grove, 2002) and Emile Habiby’s
The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptomist
(Northampton: Interlink, 2003). For Arab-Jewish experience, see Rachel Shabi’s
We Look Like the Enemy: the Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands
(New York: Walker and Co, 2008).

The map referred to in Chapter 2 is in the possession of Zochrot.

Some individuals’ names are pseudonyms.

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1948
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——,
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——,
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Or, Amir.
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Websites

www.palestineremembered.org

www.palyam.org

www.zochrot.org

Other works consulted and further reading

Adonis, Mahmud Darwish and Samih al-Qasim,
Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
(1984; London: Saqi, 2005).

Amiry, Suad.
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries
(New York: Anchor, 2006).

Anglim, Simon.
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(The Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, Occasional Papers: 2005).

Balaban, Avraham.
Mourning a Father Lost: a Kibbutz Childhood Remembered
(Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).

Barghouti, Mourid.
I Saw Ramallah
(London: Bloomsbury, 2004).

Board, Barbara.
Reporting From Palestine 1943-1944
(Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2008).

Cohen, Hillel.
Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).

Collins, Norman J. and Anton Steichele.
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(London: Sahara, 2000).

Darwish, Mahmoud.
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——,
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
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Freedman, Seth.
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(Nottingham: Five Leaves/ GuardianBooks, 2009).

Garfinkel, Jonathan.
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London: Saqi, 2007).

Gavron, Daniel.
The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia
(Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).

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(2006; Oxford: Oneworld, 2009).

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(London: Bloomsbury, 2006).

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Segev, Tom.
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Shabi, Rachel.
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(New York: Walker and Co, 2008).

Shavit, Ari. ‘Survival of the Fittest? An interview with Benny Morris’, 8 January 2004,
www.haaretz.com/survival-of-the-fittest-1.61345
.

Shehadeh, Raja.
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Shepherd, Naomi.
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Shlaim, Avi.
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(London: Penguin, 2000).

This book was a long time in the making (and remaking) and I am grateful to Literature Wales for a writer’s bursary in 2009, which supported part of the work. My thanks to members of my family, particularly my aunts, my uncle and my cousins, who helped and supported me with warm and welcoming hospitality, contacts, suggestions, discussion and encouragement, even when we did not necessarily agree. Thank you also to Ghaith, Randa, and Jasr Al Kawkuby for help, hospitality and friendship, and to staff members at Zochrot for information and contacts.

Nemonie Craven helped shape an early draft of this book and I am grateful to her for her enthusiasm about the project. My thanks to friends who encouraged me, particularly to Wynn Thomas and Jem Poster, who saw early versions. My thanks also to Mick Felton for helping me fine-tune the final text. Most importantly, I am grateful to my dear friend Helgard Krause for a characteristically acerbic piece of criticism: without it, this book would not have been published.

Jasmine Donahaye’s books include a biography,
The Greatest Need: the Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias, A Welsh Jew in Palestine
(2015); the cultural study
Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine
(2012), and two poetry collections,
Misappropriations
(2006) and
Self-Portrait as Ruth
(2009).