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This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side-where the archives are still closed-is illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials.
Morris stresses thejihadicharacter of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. Throughout, he examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the refugee problem, which was a by-product of the disintegration of Palestinian Arab society. The book thoroughly investigates the role of the Great Powers-Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union-in shaping the conflict and its tentative termination in 1949. Morris looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the successive battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.
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Every spy a prince : the complete history of Israel's intelligence community
\"This book appeared in slightly different form in England under the title The imperfect spies, copyright 1989\"--T.p. verso.
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The Forgotten Palestinians
For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Palestinians have developed an exceedingly complex relationship with the land they call home; however, in the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem, their experiences are often overlooked and forgotten.
In this book, historian Ilan Pappé examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities and Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state. Drawing upon significant archival and interview material, Pappé analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens, finding discrimination in matters of housing, education, and civil rights. Rigorously researched yet highly readable,The Forgotten Palestiniansbrings a new and much-needed perspective to the Israel-Palestine debate.
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Every spy a prince : the complete history of Israel's intelligence community
A history of Israel's intelligence community.
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The History of Water in the Land Once Called Palestine
Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation. In this, the first of two volumes on the subject, the authors look beyond the political tensions of the region, to argue for the need for shared water security and co-operative resource management. The History of Water in the Land Once Called Palestine, traces the history of water resources and security and their development from the Ottoman period until 2020, examining how the state of water security amongst Palestinians and Israelis has diverged, resulting in the current success of Israeli water security in contrast to the high water insecurity experienced by Palestinians. The authors assess water security in three parts: security of access to water resources, security of access to water services and finally, security against risks to and from water.
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The Islamic Movement in Israel
Since its establishment in the late 1970s, Israel's Islamic
Movement has grown from a small religious revivalist organization
focused on strengthening the faith of Muslim Palestinian citizens
of Israel to a countrywide sociopolitical movement with
representation in the Israeli legislature. But how did it get here?
How does it differ from other Islamic movements in the region? And
why does its membership continue to grow?
Tilde Rosmer examines these issues in The Islamic Movement
in Israel as she tells the story of the movement, its
identity, and its activities. Using interviews with movement
leaders and activists, their documents, and media reports from
Israel and beyond, she traces the movement's history from its early
days to its 1996 split over the issue of its relationship to the
state. She then explores how the two factions have functioned
since, revealing that while leaders of the two branches have
pursued different approaches to the state, until the outlawing of
the Northern Branch in 2015, both remained connected and dedicated
to providing needed social, education, and health services in
Israel's Palestinian towns and villages. The first book in English
on this group, The Islamic Movement in Israel is a timely
study about how an Islamist movement operates within the unique
circumstances of the Jewish state.
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Rethinking Contemporary Warfare
The combat experience of Israel's ground forces in the second Palestinian uprising, the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–2006), is given full critical attention in this engaging study. Based on extensive interviews and observations, Rethinking Contemporary Warfare explores the ongoing debate about how the armed forces of industrial democracies wage contemporary military operations. Irregular warfare presents challenges, as routine activities can suddenly turn into violent action, forcing military forces to quickly adapt under the changing circumstances of the conflict. Such \"new wars\" are a messy reality consisting of high and low intensity conflict, the involvement of media and human rights movements, and the martial administration of civilian populations. Exploring the broad social and organizational features of these militaries, this volume sets forth new analytical tools to understand the peculiarities of irregular warfare in the post-Cold War era. These critical concepts include loose coupling between units, organizations that mediate between ground forces and civilian environments, and the militarization of civilian environments in urban warfare
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