History discussion - no, hitler has never seeked the spear of destiny - General

[QUOTE=Frayyyy;39665327]I would suggest you should look a lot further back throughout the British Mandate before the war because there is quite a bit of continuity in the actions/errors/thoughts on all sides which affected the war, especially with leadership. I'd recommend to look into: Britain, Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years (2010) - Rory Miller ed. A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel (2008) - Gudrun Kramer (Trans. Graham Harman) Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents (2004) - Charles D. Smith All of these (for the most part) cover the war and significant issues which led into it. [/QUOTE] My professor said speaking about the Mandate more than briefly would be too broad for my paper and so wants me to focus more on the immediate time around the war. Those books I'm sure will be useful, though. Thanks

That's sorta weird though because I feel to gain clear insight into the factors leading to the Palestinians losing you sort of need a more broader view of the multiple causalities behind it, unless he wants you to more or less do a timeline of immediate events that lead to it.

[QUOTE=luverofJ!93;39666927]That's sorta weird though because I feel to gain clear insight into the factors leading to the Palestinians losing you sort of need a more broader view of the multiple causalities behind it, unless he wants you to more or less do a timeline of immediate events that lead to it.[/QUOTE] She told me that I could mention it briefly as background information, but should focus more on King Abdullah's annexation of the West Bank and Egypt's taking of the Gaza strip as more immediate factors. It confused me as well, but...she's the professor, and honestly I took this class because I don't know all that much about the conflict and wanted to learn more.

Ohh alright, so then your research is going to be focused on the actual 1948 War with all of the other Arab states instead of the civil war immediately before the British abandoned the Mandate. I don't know that as well as the latter, aside that one major issue comes down to leadership and unity just as it did for the Palestinians prior.

Yeah, though I initially wanted to discuss the Mandate beforehand in length leading up to it. But apparently that was "too broad" a topic for the term paper so I was forced to narrow it down.

Let's discuss the insanely high degree of inbreeding in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. [img]http://i.imgur.com/1L6mUQz.jpg[/img] Gotta keep that bloodline pure, bro

Well who else is worthy to mate with???

Clearly Cleopatra VII found a couple guys. Mark Antony, you naughty Roman. Honestly, the Habsburgs paled in comparison to the gloriously incestual dynasty that was the Ptolemaic.

One day...one day i dream of beating their record :')

The historiography of the Israel-Arab conflict is so annoyingly black and white to each side..

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;39795120]The historiography of the Israel-Arab conflict is so annoyingly black and white to each side..[/QUOTE] But that's the joy of it! At least there is literally tonnes of work on it and many of the primary sources are in English, makes it easy to get into and deal with that. At my university library the Israel (+ Israel-Arab Conflict) stuff takes up 2 full shelving rows (~9 shelving units) while China has only 2 or 3 shelving units, the Ottoman Empire has like 10 books, and the late antiquity/medieval Mediterranean topics I like have about 3 to 5 each. It's depressing.

Carlos II of Spain