AUC Press - Quakers in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict 2007

AUC Press - Quakers in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

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Quakers in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism

by Nancy Gallagher


208 Pages, 28 b/w photographs, 2 maps



The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has resulted in the longest-standing refugee crisis in the world today. Based on new archival research and interviews with surviving participants, this book considers one early effort to resolve that crisis while offering helpful lessons for current efforts at conflict resolution in the Middle East and elsewhere. When war broke out in Palestine in 1948, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker service organization, had just won the Nobel Peace Prize for its peacemaking endeavors and its service to war refugees during the Second World War. On the basis of that experience, the United Nations invited the highly visible AFSC to provide humanitarian relief to Arab refugees in Gaza. The AFSC also sent volunteers to work in Israel, where they hoped to serve both Arabs and Jews. Its long-term goal was repatriation of the refugees and conciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.
As eyewitnesses to some of the major events of the conflict, the AFSC volunteers came to understand it better than most outsiders at the time. By examining these early efforts at peacemaking and assistance, historian Nancy Gallagher has uncovered essential insights for today’s peacemakers, human rights activists, and humanitarian NGOs.

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Contents 

 

List of Illustrations 

Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

Quaker Peacemaking in Theory and Practice 

• Early Quaker Peacemaking Efforts 
• Establishment of the American Friends Service 
• Committee 
• The AFSC in the Second World War 
• Quakers and the United Nations 
• Quaker Missionaries in Palestine 

The 1948 Palestine War 

• A Petition for Peace in Jerusalem 
• UN Mediation in the War for Palestine 
• A Quaker Municipal Commissioner for 
• Jerusalem 
• Quakers and the Palestinian Refugees 
• A UN Invitation to the AFSC 

Catastrophe in Gaza 

• The First Refugee Camps 
• The AFSC’s Early Days in Cairo and Gaza 
• Establishment of a Public Health Service 
• Establishment of a School System 
• Conflicts, Misunderstandings, and Adaptations 

Relief versus Repatriation 

• Clarence Pickett’s Views on Repatriation 
• AFSC Opposition to Resettlement Plans 
• Transition from AFSC to UNRWA 
• Assessments of the Gaza Project 

The AFSC in Israel 

• The Acre Relief Unit 
• Expulsion of Palestinians from Faluja and Iraq 
• al-Manshiya 
• Relations between the AFSC and Israeli 
• Officials 
• The Tur‘an Agricultural Center 

Nasser, Ben Gurion, and the Quakers 

• Elmore Jackson’s Unofficial Diplomacy 
• The Suez War of 1956 
• Quaker Reassessments Post-Suez 

Conclusion 

Glossary 

Notes 

Bibliography 

Index

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