The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948
by Edited by Eugene L. Rogan , Avi ShlaimEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-11-19
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
The 1948 war led to the creation of the state of Israel, the fragmentation of Palestine, and to a conflict which has raged across the intervening sixty years. The historical debate likewise continues and these debates are encapsulated in the second edition of The War for Palestine, updated to include chapters on Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. In a preface to the new edition, the editors survey the state of scholarship in this contested field. The impact of these debates goes well beyond academia. There is an important link between the state of Arab-Israeli relations and popular attitudes towards the past. A more complex and fair-minded understanding of that past is essential for preserving at least the prospect of reconciliation between Arabs and Israel in the future. The rewriting of the history of 1948 thus remains a practical as well as an academic imperative.
Table of Contents
| Notes on contributors | p. vii |
| Chronology | p. ix |
| List of abbreviations | p. xi |
| Maps | p. xiii |
| Preface to the second edition | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure | p. 12 |
| Revisiting the Palestinian exodus of 1948 | p. 37 |
| The Druze and the birth of Israel | p. 60 |
| Israel and the Arab coalition in 1948 | p. 79 |
| Jordan and 1948: the persistence of an official history | p. 104 |
| Iraq and the 1948 War: mirror of Iraq's disorder | p. 125 |
| Egypt and the 1948 War: internal conflict and regional ambition | p. 150 |
| Syria and the Palestine War: fighting King `Abdullah's "Greater Syria Plan" | p. 176 |
| Collusion across the Litani? Lebanon and the 1948 War | p. 204 |
| Saudi Arabia and the 1948 Palestine War: beyond official history | p. 228 |
| Afterword: the consequences of 1948 | p. 248 |
| Bibliography | p. 262 |
| Index | p. 272 |
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