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Palestine betrayed

Title: Palestine betrayed / Efraim Karsh.
Author: Karsh, Efraim.
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.

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Description

ix, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

"The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades and terrorism, as well as a profound shattering of Palestinian Arab society. Its origins, and that of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict, are deeply rooted in Jewish-Arab confrontation and appropriation in Palestine. But the isolated occasions of violence during the British Mandate era (1920-48) suggest that the majority of Palestinian Arabs yearned to live and thrive in peaceful coexistence with the evolving Jewish national enterprise. So what was the real cause of the breakdown in relations between the two communities?" "In this book, Efraim Karsh tells the story from both the Arab and Jewish perspectives. He argues that from the early 1920s onward, corrupt and extremist leaders sought vigorously to protect their own interests against the Jewish national revival. Karsh has mined many of the Western, Soviet, UN and Israeli documents declassified over the past decade, as well as unfamiliar Arab sources, to reveal what happened behind the scenes on both the Palestinian and Jewish sides. It is an arresting story of delicate political and diplomatic maneuvering by leading figures - David Ben-Gurion, Hajj Amin Husseini, Abdel Rahman Azzam, King Abdullah, Ernest Bevin and Harry Truman - over the years leading up to partition, through the slide to war and its enduring consequences."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land -- Pan-Arab ambitions -- "The most important Arab quisling" -- The road to partition -- Kingdoms are established over dead bodies and skulls -- Fleeing Haifa -- Why don't you stay and fight? -- Jerusalem embattled -- All fall down -- The scramble for Palestine -- Shattered dreams -- A self-inflicted catastrophe -- Epilogue.

ISBN

9780300127270
0300127278
9780300172348
0300172346

LCCN

2009040202

OCLC

ocn449853784
449853784
SCSB-14486775

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library