David Ben Gurion The State Of Israel And The Arab World 1949 1956
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Author | : Zaki Shalom |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A specialist in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Israel's defense policy, Shalom (Ben-Gurion U.) looks at the first prime minister's views on politics and security and the forces that shaped his positions regarding the Arab world between the War of Independence and the Sinai campaign. He highlights the fundamental difference between political theory and the praxis of applications, and finds in the gap the truism that no policy can reflect in absolute terms a leader's purity of will and aspiration. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : David Ben-Gurion |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Tom Segev |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1429951842 |
2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist "[A] fascinating biography . . . a masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled man . . . this is a gripping study of power, and the loneliness of power." —The Economist As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the twentieth century. Determined from an early age to create a Jewish state, he thereupon took control of the Zionist movement, declared Israel’s independence, and navigated his country through wars, controversies and remarkable achievements. And yet Ben-Gurion remains an enigma—he could be driven and imperious, or quizzical and confounding. In this definitive biography, Israel’s leading journalist-historian Tom Segev uses large amounts of previously unreleased archival material to give an original, nuanced account, transcending the myths and legends that have accreted around the man. Segev’s probing biography ranges from the villages of Poland to Manhattan libraries, London hotels, and the hills of Palestine, and shows us Ben-Gurion’s relentless activity across six decades. Along the way, Segev reveals for the first time Ben-Gurion’s secret negotiations with the British on the eve of Israel’s independence, his willingness to countenance the forced transfer of Arab neighbors, his relative indifference to Jerusalem, and his occasional “nutty moments”—from UFO sightings to plans for Israel to acquire territory in South America. Segev also reveals that Ben-Gurion first heard about the Holocaust from a Palestinian Arab acquaintance, and explores his tempestuous private life, including the testimony of four former lovers. The result is a full and startling portrait of a man who sought a state “at any cost”—at times through risk-taking, violence, and unpredictability, and at other times through compromise, moderation, and reason. Segev’s Ben-Gurion is neither a saint nor a villain but rather a historical actor who belongs in the company of Lenin or Churchill—a twentieth-century leader whose iron will and complex temperament left a complex and contentious legacy that we still reckon with today.
Author | : Benny Morris |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1989-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521338899 |
This book is the first full-length study of the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem. Based on recently declassified Israeli, British and American state and party political papers and on hitherto untapped private papers, it traces the stages of the 1947-9 exodus against the backdrop of the first Arab-Israeli war and analyses the varied causes of the flight. The Jewish and Arab decision-making involved, on national and local levels, military and political, is described and explained, as is the crystallisation of Israel's decision to bar a refugee repatriation. The subsequent fate of the abandoned Arab villages, lands and urban neighbourhoods is examined. The study looks at the international context of the war and the exodus, and describes the political battle over the refugees' fate, which effectively ended with the deadlock at Lausanne in summer 1949. Throughout the book attempts to describe what happened rather than what successive generations of Israeli and Arab propagandists have said happened, and to explain the motives of the protagonists.
Author | : Avraham Avi-Haï |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1974-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780470038369 |
Author | : Benny Morris |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300145241 |
This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. Besides the military account, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Historian 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 the jihadi character of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. He examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. He looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the 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.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author | : Joan Comay |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A biography of the first Prime Minister of Israel who's life and activities parallel the establishment and history of Israel.
Author | : David Ben-Gurion |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
"Based on a series of interviews with Ben-Gurion during the filming of the Covenant Communications Corporation production of Forty-two six." Bibliography: p. [215]-216. Jacket price: 6.95.
Author | : Nadim N. Rouhana |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2017-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107044839 |
This volume examines the status of the Palestinian citizens in Israel and explores ethnic privileging and the dynamics of social conflict.
Author | : George Walter Gawrych |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Abu Ageila, Battle of, Abū ʻUjaylah, Egypt, 1956 |
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