The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

This book addresses the ongoing conflict among Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs from a philosophical perspective. The authors argue that by ignoring justice and failing to address violations of rights, including the rights of Palestinians and Israelis for self-determination in historic Palestine, the rights of Palestinian refugees for repatriation, and the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis to live securely and freely, then a lasting solution to the conflict will remain elusive.

This volume addresses the ongoing conflict among Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs from a philosophical perspective.

RAJA HALWANI is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Liberal Arts Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His areas of research include ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of sex and love, and philosophy of art, areas in which he published numerous articles. He is also the author of Virtuous Liaisons: Care, Love, Sex, and Virtue Ethics and the editor of Sex and Ethics: Essays on Sexuality, Virtue, and the Good Life. TOMIS KAPITAN is a Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University. He has also taught at Indiana State University, Birzeit University, East Carolina University, The American University of Beirut, and Bogazici University in Istanbul. He has published articles in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, and international ethics. He is the editor of Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,, Archaeology, History, and Culture in Palestine and the Near East, ( and the co-editor of The Phenomeno-Logic of the I ).