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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict

by: Bard, Ph.D., Mitchell

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict

by: Bard, Ph.D., Mitchell

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Copyright: 09/01/1999
Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.
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You're no idiot, of course. You know that the Middle East is always in the news. But the situation there is so complex and tangled up you just can't keep track of it all. Was King Hussein related to Saddam Hussein? Why all the fighting over the West Bank? And what's oil, water, and sand got to do with it all? Don't let your brain get parched yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict sorts through the political and military quagmire of the Middle East in language anyone can understand. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

In the Beginning	p. 1
Who Cares About the Middle East?	p. 3
Birthplace of Religion	p. 4
Cradle of Civilization	p. 6
Lubricating Policy	p. 7
Shifting Sands	p. 8
A New Plague	p. 8
The Genie Unleashed	p. 9
Press Obsessions	p. 10
The "Arc of Silence"	p. 11
Jews Are News	p. 12
We Are Family	p. 13
The "Jewish Lobby"	p. 13
It's Never Boring	p. 14
The Arabs, the Israelis, and More	p. 14
The Chosen People	p. 17
The Long Way Home	p. 18
Abraham's Covenant	p. 19
Father of the Arabs	p. 20
Israel Gets a Name	p. 21
The Exodus	p. 23
What a Bargain	p. 25
From Subjects to Kings	p. 26
The Lost Tribes	p. 28
The Last Jewish King	p. 28
There Goes Another Empire	p. 30
It's All Greek to the Jews	p. 31
The Jewish Hammer	p. 32
Religion and Politics Mix	p. 35
Welcome to the Empire	p. 37
Pharisees and Sadducees	p. 38
The Dead Sea Sect	p. 39
A House Divided	p. 39
Caesar Comes Calling	p. 41
The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple	p. 43
It Ain't Over Till It's Over	p. 46
Life in Exile	p. 47
The Rise of Christianity	p. 48
Rome Gets Religion	p. 49
The Crescent Moon	p. 51
The Other Semites	p. 52
The "Last" Prophet	p. 53
The Muslim Word Is Spread	p. 56
A New Dynasty Is Born	p. 58
The Abbasid Dynasty	p. 60
Dhimmis: Protected but Not Equal	p. 61
The Jews Have It Bad	p. 62
The Invaders	p. 63
The Crusades	p. 63
Saladin Stakes His Claim	p. 64
Bad Dinner Guests: Mamelukes and Mongols	p. 65
Ottomans Talk Turkey	p. 66
The Capitals of the Muslim World	p. 67
Constantinople Becomes Istanbul	p. 67
The Nationalist Wave	p. 73
What Is Zionism?	p. 74
Jewish Pioneers	p. 75
L'Affaire Dreyfus	p. 76
Herzl's Dream	p. 78
Room Enough for Both?	p. 80
A Letter Fulfills a Dream	p. 81
If You Build It, They Will Come	p. 82
The Arab Ambition	p. 82
Western Ideas Infect the Region	p. 83
Young Turks	p. 85
Ferment in Arabia	p. 87
The Arab Revolt	p. 88
Searching for a Palestinian Identity	p. 88
The Great War's Spoils	p. 91
Trouble Brews in Palestine	p. 93
Empire First, Freedom Later	p. 94
The New Pharaoh	p. 97
Jews Move from Farms to Cities	p. 99
Too Many Jews, Not Enough Space	p. 100
Culture Shock	p. 102
Lawrence's Offspring	p. 103
The First Arab Riots	p. 104
Meet the Mufti	p. 106
Riots Become an Arab Weapon	p. 107
Churchill Tries White Out	p. 107
Arab Pogroms	p. 109
Jews Try Self-Defense	p. 109
Papering Over the Conflict	p. 110
This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land	p. 113
Jews Are Good for Arab Health	p. 114
A Bargain at Any Price	p. 115
The Arab Revolt	p. 117
An A-Peeling Solution?	p. 117
Brits Lose Their Patience	p. 120
Wingate's Warriors	p. 120
Jews Turn to Terror	p. 121
Britain Slams the Door	p. 122
Fighting Hitler and Great Britain	p. 125
The Jewish Underground Railroad	p. 126
Jews Join the Allies	p. 126
Growing Jewish Militancy	p. 127
Zionists Draw Up the Biltmore Program	p. 128
Palestinians Sit Out War	p. 129
The Jews Revolt	p. 130
The Season of Jews' Discontent	p. 131
Dissidents More Defiant	p. 133
Competition for Land	p. 135
Churchill's Loss Brings Hope	p. 136
Brits Become Targets	p. 136
The King David Goes Boom	p. 138
A State of Their Own	p. 141
Holocaust Survivors Seek Refuge	p. 142
Exodus: More Than a Movie	p. 143
Terrorists Turn Up the Heat	p. 145
The British Give In--Sort Of	p. 147
Unscop	p. 148
The Final Straw	p. 150
The UN Solution	p. 151
America Weighs In	p. 154
A Vote of Conscience--And Interests	p. 155
Two States, One Happy People	p. 156
Storm Clouds Gather	p. 157
The Jewish War of Independence	p. 159
The Jewish Underground Surfaces	p. 160
The End of Partition	p. 162
The Legend of Deir Yassin	p. 163
Ambush!	p. 164
Israel's Independence Day	p. 165
Five Against One	p. 166
The American General	p. 166
The Search for Guns	p. 168
No War, No Peace	p. 169
A State for the Jews	p. 171
The Wanted and the Unwanted	p. 173
Fleeing the War	p. 174
The Invasion Starts an Emigration Flood	p. 176
Jews Flee Arab Lands	p. 179
What to Do About Refugees?	p. 180
Israel's Attitude Toward Refugees	p. 182
Arab Attitudes Toward Refugees	p. 183
We've Got a State--Now What?	p. 185
The Decline of Imperialism	p. 186
Arabia Becomes Saudi	p. 188
The Last Egyptian King	p. 190
The Boy King	p. 191
Israel's Complex Democracy	p. 193
The Law of Return	p. 194
The Jews Come Home	p. 195
No Pepsi for You	p. 197
War over Suez	p. 201
A Not-So-Colossal Agreement at Rhodes	p. 202
Israelis Miss Truman	p. 202
Nasser Leaves Israelis in Dry Dock	p. 203
The U.S. Can't Contain Itself	p. 203
NATO Shmato	p. 204
Dam It	p. 205
Back to the Desert	p. 208
Ike Puts His Foot Down--On Israel	p. 209
U.S.'s Turn to Fight	p. 210
War and Peace	p. 213
Six Days to Victory	p. 215
HAWKs Fly East	p. 215
Kennedy's Peace Initiative	p. 217
Flirting with Nasser	p. 218
Israel Says "Tanks"	p. 219
Egypt's Vietnam	p. 221
The Birth of the PLO	p. 221
Terror from the Heights	p. 223
Countdown to War	p. 225
Nasser Defiant	p. 226
Israel Goes It Alone	p. 226
Jerusalem Reunited	p. 228
A Second Exodus	p. 229
The World Is Stunned	p. 229
No War, No Peace	p. 231
The Arabs Say No, No, No	p. 232
Resolution 242	p. 232
Israel's Obligations to the Palestinians	p. 234
The Geography of Peace	p. 235
New President, New Peace Plan	p. 236
The War of Attrition	p. 237
The Unfriendly Skies	p. 238
Black September	p. 240
The Year of Decision	p. 242
An Olympic Bloodbath	p. 242
Israel's Day of Infamy	p. 245
Sadat Cries Wolf	p. 246
Golda's Fateful Decision	p. 246
Unholy War	p. 247
Oil Becomes a Weapon	p. 248
The IDF Stages a Comeback	p. 250
Superpower Chess	p. 250
The View from Egypt	p. 251
The Brink of Nuclear War	p. 252
Saving the Losers	p. 252
Israel's Political Earthquake	p. 254
The PLO Goes Legit	p. 255
Redemption at Entebbe	p. 257
War Outside Palestine	p. 258
Iran-Iraq Hatreds Revived	p. 259
Lebanon Goes to Pieces	p. 260
Hussein Survives Again	p. 261
Peace at Last	p. 263
Allon Is Alone with His Plan	p. 264
Carter's Messianism	p. 265
Checks Bounce Rabin	p. 266
Begin's In	p. 266
Jimmy Looks Toward Switzerland	p. 267
Courting Sadat	p. 267
Sadat Goes to Jerusalem	p. 268
Begin Plants a Seed in Palestine	p. 269
Those Pesky Settlements	p. 270
Oil Blackmail	p. 271
Israel's Slippery Slope	p. 272
Camping with Jimmy	p. 272
Breakthrough!	p. 274
A Treaty, at Last	p. 276
The Meaning of Peace	p. 277
Running Out of Steam	p. 279
Holy Warriors	p. 281
Pahlavi Power	p. 282
America's Security Blanket	p. 283
Change Comes from Plains	p. 285
A Clerical Error	p. 286
The Shah Flees	p. 286
Saudi Arabia Feels the Heat	p. 287
America Held Hostage	p. 288
Expanding the Soviet Union	p. 290
Time to Act	p. 291
Khomeini Defeats Carter	p. 294
The Final Act	p. 294
Iran and Iraq Go to War	p. 297
Wrangling on the River	p. 298
Muslim Versus Muslim	p. 298
Rivals for Power	p. 299
Allies Choose Sides	p. 299
Rooting for a Draw	p. 300
Tanker Wars	p. 301
Arms for Hostages	p. 302
Kuwait as Middleman	p. 303
Melee in Mecca	p. 304
The "Final" Battle	p. 304
No Victors	p. 305
Israel's Vietnam	p. 307
Settling the Land	p. 308
Reagan Versus Begin	p. 308
Iraq's Reactor Goes Boom!	p. 310
Reagan's Love Is Tested	p. 311
The Sphinx Cries	p. 312
PLO Tyranny in Lebanon	p. 313
The Terrorist Army	p. 314
Sharon Unleashed	p. 315
The PLO's Reluctant Retreat	p. 316
Inching Toward Peace	p. 319
Sticks and Stones and Breaking Bones	p. 321
Reagan Has a Plan	p. 322
Massacres at Sabra and Shatila	p. 322
Israelis Grow War Weary	p. 323
America Gets Sucked In	p. 325
The End of Begin	p. 326
Peace Goes Overboard	p. 326
Black Jews Come Home	p. 327
The Palestinians Rise Up	p. 329
America Recognizes the PLO	p. 331
Shamir's Four Points	p. 332
Saddam Crosses the Line	p. 335
Bush Plays Along	p. 336
Believing the Unbelievable	p. 336
Oil Slips Through Saddam's Fingers	p. 337
A Line in the Sand	p. 338
Build-Up to War	p. 339
From Shield to Storm	p. 341
Thunder and Lightning	p. 342
Israel Under Fire	p. 343
The PLO Backs Saddam	p. 345
Saddam's Mother Cries Uncle	p. 346
Israel Wins--And Loses	p. 349
A War Too Short	p. 351
From Desert Storm to Desert Fox	p. 352
Bush Turns the Screws	p. 355
Baker's Confab	p. 356
The Historic Madrid Conference	p. 357
Where to Next?	p. 359
Jews Tear Through the Iron Curtain	p. 360
Operation Solomon	p. 361
Rabin the Phoenix	p. 362
Terror Strikes Home	p. 363
Israel Bites the PLO Bullet	p. 363
Explaining the Sea Change	p. 366
Arafat Loses a Friend	p. 368
A Bird in Hand	p. 368
Why Can't We All Get Along?	p. 371
The Oldest City's New Rulers	p. 373
Chipping In for Peace	p. 374
Talk Is Cheap	p. 375
The Slippery Slope Toward Statehood	p. 376
Stimulating the Arab States	p. 377
The Economic War Continues	p. 379
A Jewish Extremist Sets Off More Violence	p. 379
Gaza and Jericho First	p. 380
Syria Doesn't Budge	p. 381
Big Day for the Little King	p. 382
Oslo II	p. 383
Rabin Turns a Blind Eye	p. 385
The Shot Heard 'Round the World	p. 387
The Unthinkable Happens	p. 388
Assad Overplays His Hand	p. 390
Stopping Peace in Its Tracks	p. 391
Israel Turns Right	p. 393
The 13 Percent Solution	p. 395
Clinton Asks Wye Not?	p. 396
Arafat's Dream Approaches Reality	p. 397
Clinton Fails to Outfox Saddam	p. 399
O Jerusalem!	p. 403
If I Forget Thee	p. 404
A City Divided	p. 405
Jerusalem is Unified	p. 407
Freedom of Religion	p. 407
Arab East Jerusalem?	p. 409
Religion and Politics Mix	p. 410
Congress Versus the President	p. 411
Waiting for the Messiah	p. 415
No End to Fanaticism	p. 416
Palestine: So Close, Yet So Far	p. 417
Stuck in the Lebanese Quagmire	p. 418
Still Waiting for Syria	p. 419
Uncertainty on the East Bank	p. 420
Cold Peace	p. 421
The Oil Weapon Is Sheathed	p. 422
Thirst for War	p. 422
Armageddon?	p. 424
Peace in Our Time?	p. 426
Glossary	p. 429
Appendixes
Timeline of Middle East History	p. 437
Bibliography	p. 445
The Military Balance	p. 457
Index	p. 459
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