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Authors: Ahron Bregman
ISBN-13: 9780333676318, ISBN-10: 0333676319
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: First Edition
Ahron Bregman is Lecturer in History at Webster University, London.
This book examines Israel's turbulent history from the first Zionist Congress in 1897 to the present day.
List of Maps | x | |
Preface | xi | |
1 | The Road to Statehood, 1897-1947 | 1 |
Theodor Herzl | 1 | |
Eretz Yisrael | 7 | |
Palestine in the First World War | 13 | |
The post-war period | 18 | |
The British Mandate | 21 | |
The Arab Rebellion, 1936-39 | 27 | |
Palestine in the Second World War | 33 | |
Turning on the British | 37 | |
Partition and civil war | 39 | |
2 | The Birth of Israel, 1948-1949 | 44 |
Friday, 14 May 1948 | 44 | |
War | 47 | |
End of war and the emergence of a democracy | 59 | |
3 | Years of Consolidation, 1950-1966 | 70 |
Mass immigration | 70 | |
Communal problems | 71 | |
The economy in crisis | 75 | |
Tensions along the borders | 79 | |
New leadership | 81 | |
The politicization of the Holocaust | 86 | |
The 1956 Kadesh campaign and after | 88 | |
Domestic issues | 93 | |
The Lavon Affair | 95 | |
Germany again | 98 | |
Enter Levy Eshkol | 100 | |
4 | The Six-Day War and Afterwards, 1967-1973 | 104 |
Descent to war | 104 | |
The waiting period | 110 | |
Six days of war | 116 | |
The new society | 123 | |
Snail's pace diplomacy | 125 | |
Enter Golda Meir | 129 | |
War of attrition | 130 | |
Golda and Anwar el-Sadat | 134 | |
Terrorism, immigration and riots | 136 | |
5 | Yom Kippur War and the Death of Labour, 1973-1977 | 139 |
Sadat prepares war | 139 | |
Israel stumbles into the trap | 142 | |
Invasion | 151 | |
Fighting back | 154 | |
Post-war: society and diplomacy | 156 | |
The Agranat report | 157 | |
Enter Yitzhak Rabin | 159 | |
Enter Shimon Peres | 165 | |
6 | Begin's Years, 1977-1983 | 168 |
Building a coalition | 168 | |
First steps to peace | 170 | |
The home front | 176 | |
Camp David and after | 183 | |
'Tamuz 1' | 191 | |
A second Likud government | 194 | |
War in Lebanon | 196 | |
7 | The Road to Peace, 1983-1991 | 205 |
Enter Yitzhak Shamir | 205 | |
Working Together | 208 | |
Intifada | 215 | |
Immigration and death of the coalition | 221 | |
War and immigration | 227 | |
The road to peace | 230 | |
The Madrid Peace Conference | 232 | |
8 | Peace and War, 1992 to Present | 236 |
Enter Yitzhak Rabin | 236 | |
Enter Benjamin Netanyahu | 254 | |
Enter Ehud Barak | 261 | |
Enter Ariel Sharon | 277 | |
Appendix 1 | The Dayan el-Tohami Protocol, 1977 | 287 |
Appendix 2 | Draft Declaration of Principles, Israel-Syria, 1992 | 291 |
Notes | 295 | |
Further Reading | 302 | |
Index | 308 |