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Good Arabs : the Israeli security agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967

Title
Good Arabs : the Israeli security agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967 / Hillel Cohen ; translated by Haim Watzman.
Author
Cohen, Hillel.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.

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Description
xiii, 281 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Based on his reading of top-secret files of the Israeli police and the prime minister's office, Hillel Cohen exposes the full extent of the crucial, and, until now, willfully hidden history of Palestinian collaboration with Israelis - and of the Arab resistance to it. Cohen's previous book, the highly acclaimed Army of Shadows, told how this hidden history played out from 1917 to 1948, and now, in Good Arabs he focuses on the system of collaborators established by Israel in each and every Arab community after the 1948 war. Covering a broad spectrum of attitudes and behaviors, Cohen brings together the stories of activists, mukhtars, collaborators, teachers, and sheikhs, telling how Israeli security agencies penetrated Arab communities, how they obtained collaboration, how national activists fought them, and how deeply this activity influenced daily life. When this book was first published in Hebrew, it became a bestseller and has evoked bitter memories and intense discussions among Palestinians in Israel and prompted the reclassification of many of the hundreds of documents Cohen viewed to uncover a story that continues to unfold to this day."--Jacket.
Uniform Title
ʻAravim ṭovim. English
Alternative Title
ʻAravim ṭovim.
Subject
  • Israel
  • Israel. Sherut ha-biṭaḥon ha-kelali
  • Israel General Security Service Shabakh
  • Israel. Sherut ha-biṭaḥon ha-kelali
  • Geschichte 1948-1967
  • Palestinian Arabs > Political activity > Israel
  • Intelligence service > Israel
  • National security > Israel
  • Minorities > Israel
  • Ethnic relations
  • Intelligence service
  • Minorities
  • National security
  • Palestinian Arabs > Political activity
  • Geheimdienst
  • Innere Sicherheit
  • Nationale Minderheit
  • Palästinenser
  • Politisches Engagement
  • Palestinian Arabs > Israel
  • Collaborationists > Israel
  • Rasrelationer > Israel
  • Palestinier > medborgerliga fri- och rättigheter > Israel
  • Israel > Ethnic relations
Note
  • ‏תרגום של: ערבים טובים.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Beginning a beautiful friendship: the rise of the collaborator class -- Communists vs. the military government: collaborators vs. communists -- Boundary breakers: infiltrators, smugglers, spies -- The land -- The battle of the narrative: symbols, pronouncements, teachers -- Minorities within a minority: dilemmas of identity -- Circles of control, circles of resistance -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9780520257672
  • 0520257677
  • 9780520269767
  • 0520269764
LCCN
2009010473
OCLC
  • ocn317067975
  • 317067975
  • SCSB-14419686
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library