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A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

ISBN: 9780137551002 | 0137551002
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 8/1/1997

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SummaryTable of Contents
This concise and comprehensive text presents a balanced, impartial, and well-illustrated coverage of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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TABLES, CHARTS, AND MAPS
x(2)
DOCUMENTSxii(3)
PREFACExv
INTRODUCTION1(14)
Defining the Question2(1)
Who Are the Arabs and Jews?3(2)
The Religious Dimension: Judaism and Islam5(5)
The Task of the Historian10(1)
The Landscape of Palestine11(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading14(1)
1 PALESTINE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
15(20)
Palestine under the Ottoman Empire
16(2)
The Arabs of Palestine
18(1)
Jews in Nineteenth-Century Palestine
19(2)
The Birth of Modern Zionism
21(6)
The History of the Jews in Europe
21(2)
Theodor Herzl and the Emergence of Political Zionism
23(2)
The First Zionists Arrive in Palestine
25(1)
Socialist and Zionist Jews in Palestine
26(1)
The Jewish and Arab Communities of Palestine on the Eve of World War I
27(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading
30(5)
Document 1-1 Program of the League of the Arab Fatherland: Negib Azoury
31(1)
Document 1-2 Announcement to the Arabs, Sons of Qahtan
31(2)
Document 1-3 Theodor Herzl, Der Judenstaat
33(1)
Document 1-4 The Basel Declaration
34(1)
2 PALESTINE DURING THE MANDATE
35(32)
The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
36(2)
The Sykes-Picot Agreement
38(2)
The Balfour Declaration
40(1)
Postwar Settlement
41(2)
The Mandates
43(6)
The Jews and the Mandate
45(1)
The Arabs and the Mandate
46(2)
The British during the Mandate
48(1)
Land, Immigration, and the White Paper of 1922
49(7)
The White Paper of 1922
50(1)
The Political Situation
51(1)
The White Paper of 1930
52(1)
Arab Rebellion
53(1)
Peel Commission Report
54(2)
1939 White Paper
56(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
56(11)
Document 2-1 Sir Henry McMahon's Second Note to the Sharif Husain
57(1)
Document 2-2 The Sharif Husain's Third Note to Sir Henry McMahon
58(1)
Document 2-3 Sir Henry McMahon's Third Note to the Sharif Husain
59(1)
Document 2-4 Letter by Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild
59(1)
Document 2-5 British Cabinet Discussion on Support for Zionism
60(1)
Document 2-6 Text of the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement
60(2)
Document 2-7 Feisal-Frankfurter Correspondence
62(1)
Document 2-8 Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
63(1)
Document 2-9 The Churchill White Paper--1922
64(1)
Document 2-10 The Peel Commission's Justification for Proposing Partition for Palestine
65(1)
Document 2-11 The 1939 White Paper on Palestine
65(2)
3 WORLD WAR II, JEWISH DISPLACED PERSONS, AND PALESTINE
67(20)
The Holocaust
69(2)
Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
71(1)
The United States, American Jews, and Palestine to 1945
72(3)
Palestine after World War II
75(1)
The Displaced Persons and Palestine
75(2)
Postwar British and American Policy
77(1)
The Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry
78(4)
Suggestions for Further Reading
82(5)
Document 3-1 Rudolf Hoess on the Methods of the "Final Solution"
83(1)
Document 3-2 Declaration Adopted by the Extraordinary Zionist Conference
83(1)
Document 3-3 The Zionist Case: Golda Meir, Testimony Before the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry
84(1)
Document 3-4 The Palestine Arab Case: Jamal Bey Husseini
85(2)
4 THE UN, ISRAEL ESTABLISHED, THE FIRST ARAB-ISRAELI WAR
87(28)
Palestine before the United Nations
88(1)
UNSCOP Majority Report
89(1)
The United States and the Partition Proposal
90(1)
UNGA Approves the Partition of Palestine
91(2)
Arab and Jewish Response to the UN Partition Resolution
93(2)
Partition in Doubt
95(1)
Establishment of Israel and the First Arab-Israeli War
96(4)
The Palestinian Refugees
100(2)
Israel: A Jewish State
102(4)
The Arabs of Palestine: 1948
106(3)
Conclusion
109(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
109(6)
Document 4-1 UNSCOP's Plan of Partition with Economic Union
110(2)
Document 4-2 U.S. Department of State Memorandum on American Policy at the United Nations
112(1)
Document 4-3 State of Israel Proclamation of Independence
112(2)
Document 4-4 UN General Assembly Resolution 194
114(1)
5 THE CONFLICT WIDENS: SUEZ, 1956
115(23)
Israel and the Arabs, 1949-1956
116(1)
Britain and Egypt
117(2)
Nasser and Britain
119(1)
Nasser and the United States
119(2)
The Baghdad Pact, 1955
121(1)
The Egyptian-Soviet Arms Deal, 1955
122(4)
The Suez Crisis
126(7)
Background
126(1)
The British Role
126(1)
The French Role
127(1)
The Israeli Role
127(3)
British, French, and Israeli Collusion
130(2)
Outcome
132(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
133(5)
Document 5-1 Speech by President Nasser Justifying Nationalization of the Suez Canal Company
134(1)
Document 5-2 Anthony Eden's Views of Gamal Abdul Nasser
135(1)
Document 5-3 Speech to the Security Council by Abba Eban, Israel, on His Country's Offensive in Sinai
136(1)
Document 5-4 President Nasser's Response to the Anglo-French Ultimatum
137(1)
6 THE TURNING POINT: JUNE 1967
138(23)
Israel after 1956
139(2)
The Arabs after 1956
141(1)
U.S.-Soviet.Involvement: The Cold War and the Arms Race
142(4)
The U.S. Role
142(3)
The Soviet Role
145(1)
Syria, the Palestinians, and the War of 1967
146(10)
Prelude to War
148(1)
The Road to War
149(4)
Results
153(3)
Recapitulation
156(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
156(5)
Document 6-1 Nasser's Speech to Egyptian National Assembly Members
157(1)
Document 6-2 Speech by Abba Eban to the Security Council
158(1)
Document 6-3 UN Security Council Resolution 242
159(1)
Document 6-4 Principles Guiding Israel's Policy in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
160(1)
Document 6-5 Resolutions of the Khartoum Conference
160(1)
7 HOLY DAYS AND HOLY WAR: OCTOBER 1973
161(24)
Prelude
162(1)
The Palestinians and the PLO after 1967
163(7)
The PLO Covenant and Armed Struggle
164(4)
The PLO and the Arab States
168(2)
Diplomacy, the War of Attrition, and the Rogers Plan
170(2)
Detente and the Role of the Superpowers
172(1)
Egypt Prepares for War
173(4)
The 1973 War and Its Aftermath
177(2)
The Arab Embargo and the Oil Weapon
179(2)
Suggestions for Further Reading
181(4)
Document 7-1 The Palestinian National Covenant
181(2)
Document 7-2 Security Council Resolution 338
183(1)
Document 7-3 Arab Heads of State Declaration at Rabat
183(1)
Document 7-4 Israel Knesset Statement Following the Rabat Conference
184(1)
8 THE SEARCH FOR PEACE
185(28)
Impact of the 1973 War
186(1)
The Peace Process, 1973-1979
186(10)
Kissinger's Shuttle Diplomacy
187(2)
Divisions within Israel
189(1)
The Response of the Arab States
190(1)
PLO Policy
191(3)
The West Bank and Gaza
194(2)
Water and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
196(1)
The Camp David Accords
197(6)
The Role of Jimmy Carter
197(2)
The Camp David Accords and the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
199(2)
The Arab Response to Camp David
201(1)
The Significance of the Camp David Accords
202(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
203(10)
Document 8-1 UN General Assembly Resolution 3236 (XXIX)
203(1)
Document 8-2 Speech by Yasser Arafat to the General Assembly
204(1)
Document 8-3 Speech by Yosef Tekoah to the General Assembly
205(2)
Document 8-4 Framework for Peace in the Middle East Agreed at Camp David and Signed at the White House
207(2)
Document 8-5 Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel
209(1)
Document 8-6 The Likud Response to Camp David: The 1981 Party Platform
210(1)
Document 8-7 Arab League Summit Communique
211(1)
Document 8-8 West Bank Palestinians: Reaction to Camp David
211(2)
9 LEBANON AND THE INTIFADA
213(35)
Lebanon
214(14)
The Palestinian Factor
216(1)
Civil War and Its Consequences
217(1)
"Operation Peace for Galilee"
218(3)
Israel Withdraws
221(3)
The American Jewish Lobby and Israel
224(1)
The Reagan and Other Peace Plans
225(1)
Communal Conflict in Lebanon Continues
226(1)
The PLO Moves to Tunis
227(1)
The Intifada
228(11)
The PLO and the Intifada
231(4)
The Intifada and Israeli Policy
235(1)
Consequences of the Intifada
236(3)
The Superpowers and the Peace Process
239(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
240(8)
Document 9-1 Fez Summit Peace Proposal
241(1)
Document 9-2 Hussein's Renunciation of Claim to the West Bank
241(2)
Document 9-3 Palestine National Council, "Palestinian Declaration of Independence"
243(1)
Document 9-4 PLO Acceptance of UN Resolutions 242 and 338
244(1)
Document 9-5 Arafat Statement on Israel and Terrorism
245(1)
Document 9-6 Shamir's Four-Point Plan
246(2)
10 PEACE OF THE BRAVE
248(35)
The End of the Cold War and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union
249(1)
The Gulf War
250(5)
Iraq's Invasion and Annexation of Kuwait
250(1)
The Gulf War and Its Aftermath
251(4)
The Madrid Peace Conference
255(4)
Background
255(1)
The Road to Madrid
256(1)
The Madrid Conference
257(2)
The Road to Peace
259(7)
Elections in Israel and New Directions in the Peace Talks
259(1)
Bilateral Talks at a Standstill
260(1)
The Hamas Threat to PLO Leadership
261(1)
The Issue of Jerusalem Emerges
262(1)
"Operation Accountability"
263(3)
Arafat's Role Questioned
266(1)
The September 1993 Israeli-PLO Accord
266(4)
Mutual Recognition
268(1)
The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements
269(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
270(13)
Document 10-1 President Bush: The Start of Military Action
271(1)
Document 10-2 Saddam Hussein: The Iraqi View
272(1)
Document 10-3 Arafat to Rabin Recognizing Israel's Right to Exist
273(1)
Document 10-4 Rabin to Arafat Recognizing the PLO
274(1)
Document 10-5 Clinton Statement at Signing of Israel-PLO Accord
274(2)
Document 10-6 Arafat Statement at Signing of Accord
276(1)
Document 10-7 Rabin Statement at Signing of Accord
277(1)
Document 10-8 The Israel--PLO Declaration of Principles
278(5)
11 THE PEACE PROGRESSES
283(32)
The Gaza-Jericho Agreement between Israel and the PLO
284(1)
Peace between Jordan and Israel
285(2)
The Road to Oslo II
287(2)
Palestinian Violence Continues
287(1)
West Bank Settlers' Opposition
288(1)
Oslo II, or the Taba Accord
288(1)
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
289(10)
The Election of a Palestinian Legislative Council and Arafat as President
291(1)
Arafat and the Islamists
292(3)
The Syrian Track
295(1)
"Operation Grapes of Wrath"
296(2)
The PLO Votes to Amend the Covenant
298(1)
The Israeli Elections of May 1996
299(6)
The Victory of Benjamin Netanyahu
299(2)
The Arab and Palestinian Response
301(1)
The Hasmonean Tunnel Incident
302(1)
Agreement on Hebron
303(2)
Document 11-1 The Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty
305(2)
Document 11-2 The Taba Accord
307(3)
Document 11-3 Eulogy for Late Prime Minister Rabin by King Hussein of Jordan
310(1)
Document 11-4 Text of Understanding between Israel and Lebanon
311(1)
Document 11-5 Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron and Note for the Record
312(3)
CONCLUSION315(6)
The Changing Character of the Arab-Israeli Conflict315(2)
Outstanding Issues in the Conflict317(4)
GLOSSARY321(4)
INDEX325

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