Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948 » (New Edition)

Hillel Cohen is Research Fellow at the Truman
Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Present Absentee: Palestinian Refugees in Israel since 1948 and Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Services and the Israeli Arabs.

"Cohen adds human insights to one of the most painful dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Fascinating."—Tom Segev, author of 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East

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In Army of Shadows Hillel Cohen utilizes a broad range of sources in several languages to produce the most judicious and nuanced study available on the complex phenomenon of collaboration by Palestinian Arabs with agencies of the Zionist movement during the British mandate period. Cohen effectively explores the motives and contexts which led some Palestinians to collaborate with Zionism and assesses the extent to which such collaboration contributed to Zionism's success in acquiring land for Jewish settlement, overcoming Palestinian nationalist resistance, and laying the foundations of a Jewish state. This is a remarkable contribution to scholarship on the modern history of Palestine, on Palestinian society and politics, and on the Zionist project."—Zachary Lockman, author of Contending Visions of the Middle East: the History and Politics of Orientalism

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
Two Nationalisms Meet, 1917-1935
Utopia and Its Collapse     15
Who Is a Traitor?     43
We, the Collaborators     66
Rebels and Traitors, 1936-1939
Old Collaborators, New Traitors     95
Unity Ends     121
The "Traitors" Counterattack     145
War in Europe, War at Home
World War, Local Calm     171
Prelude to War     202
Treason and Defeat: The 1948 War     230
Conclusion     259
Notes     269
Bibliography     317
Index     327