The 1945 1952 British Government S Opposition To Zionism And The Emergent State Of Israel

Author : Nick Reynold
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793629265

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The 1945–1952 British Government's Opposition to Zionism and the Emergent State of Israel by Nick Reynold Pdf

The 1945-1952 British Government’s Opposition to Zionism and the Emergent State of Israel tells the story of a longstanding campaign conducted by senior members of a British government against Zionism, a fledgling nationalist movement, immediately after World War II. The book argues that although the British Labour Party had once been firm supporters of Zionism and the creation of a Jewish homeland, once in office, and particularly under the influence of the anti-Zionist Foreign Office, their position changed. The two senior Cabinet ministers, Prime Minister Clement Atlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, had very little knowledge about or interest in Zionism at the time that they took office. And so various internal and external bodies were able to persuade them to adopt their own firmly held position when they had no position of their own. Despite the horrors of the Holocaust and displacement of large numbers of Jews, ultimately the British Government were not willing to risk alienating Middle East Arabs in support of a Jewish homeland. The book examines the motivations and roles of the two men and their fascinating relationship with the Zionist movement of the mid-twentieth century, culminating in the triumphant establishment of the state of Israel against all odds.

Author : Victor Kattan
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124174355

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From Coexistence to Conquest by Victor Kattan Pdf

From Coexistence to Conquest seeks to explain how the Arab-Israeli conflict developed by looking beyond strict legalism to the men behind the policies adopted by the Great Powers at the dawn of the twentieth century. It controversially argues that Zionism was adopted by the British Government in its 1917 Balfour Declaration primarily as an immigration device and that it can be traced back to the 1903 Royal Commission on Alien Immigration and the Alien’s Act 1905. The book contains the most detailed legal analysis of the 1915-6 Hussein-McMahon correspondence, as well as the Balfour Declaration, and takes a closer look at the travaux préparatoires that formed the British Mandate of Palestine. It places the violent reaction of the Palestine Arabs to mass Jewish immigration in the context of Zionism, highlighting the findings of several British commissions of inquiry which recommended that Britain abandon its policy. The book also revisits the controversies over the question of self-determination, and the partition of Palestine. The Chapter on the 1948 conflict seeks to update international lawyers on the scholarship of Israel’s ‘new’ historians and reproduces some of the horrific accounts of the atrocities that took place from newspaper reports, UN documents, and personal accounts, which saw the expulsion and exodus of almost an entire people from their homeland. The penultimate chapter argues that Israel was created through an act of conquest or subjugation. The book concludes with a sobering analysis of the conflict arguing that neither Jews nor Arabs were to blame for starting it.

Author : Ethan B. Katz,Lisa Moses Leff,Maud S. Mandel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253024626

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Colonialism and the Jews by Ethan B. Katz,Lisa Moses Leff,Maud S. Mandel Pdf

The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews engaged with empire in modern times. Taken together, these essays reveal the interpretive power of the "Imperial Turn" and present a rethinking of the history of Jews in colonial societies in light of postcolonial critiques and destabilized categories of analysis. A provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is also included.

Author : Robert Fisk
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307428714

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The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk Pdf

A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.

Author : Jonathan Nitzan,Shimshon Bichler
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745316751

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The Global Political Economy of Israel by Jonathan Nitzan,Shimshon Bichler Pdf

The debate about globalisation and its discontents

Author : M. Alam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230101371

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Israeli Exceptionalism by M. Alam Pdf

This book discusses the small band of European Zionists, who entered the world stage in late 19th century, determined to create a Jewish state and considers how, at that time in Europe, Jewish-Gentile frictions were local problems, whilst today in Israel they have come to form the pivot of global conflict.

Author : Peter Weiler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804714649

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British Labour and the Cold War by Peter Weiler Pdf

A critical examination of the labour government and trades Union Congress in the immediate postwar period, this book argues that the Cold War was not just a traditional conflict between states but also an attempt to contain the growth of radical working-class movements at home and abroad. These radical movements, stimulated by the Second World War and its aftermath, seemed to policymakers within the Labour Party and the TUC to threaten British interests. The author contends that the Labour government never seriously considered following a socialist foreign policy, but instead sought to shape political developments throughout the world in ways most conductive to maintaining Britain's traditional economic and imperial interests. The government was able to follow established policies abroad and increasingly at home at least in part because British trade union leaders supported its attempts to prevent radicals and communists from coming to power in trade union movements inside Britain and throughout the world. In so doing, the trade union movement significantly extended its links with the state, in particular by cooperating with it in the sphere of foreign and colonial labour policy.

Author : Israel Eldad
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9652294144

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The Jewish Revolution by Israel Eldad Pdf

With The Jewish Revolution classical Zionism has found its true interpretation. In the highest tradition of the soldier-statesman, Dr. Israel Eldad advocates a form of Zionism that is unpopular in conventional society. He condemns establishmentarian, social-club Zionism as a belittling of Jewish history and a threat to Jewish lives. In its place, he calls for a revolutionary creed one that dares assert its right to the Jewish homeland; not as defined by diplomats, politicians and Security Council Resolutions, but in biblical, historical terms. He boldly declares that Jewish diplomacy failed to save millions of European Jews, and he accuses world leaders of inviting new Holocausts by denying history s lessons and ignoring its imperatives. He warns the Jewish people that it can rely only on its own forces, and he offers a solution to the Arab problem in the Middle East. The Jewish Revolution combines the passion of the patriot, the logic of the scholar and the sweep of the historian.

Author : Omar Shakir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : OCLC:1252735126

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A Threshold Crossed by Omar Shakir Pdf

"The widely held assumption that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is a temporary situation and that the 'peace process' will soon bring an end to Israeli abuses has obscured the reality on the ground today of Israel's entrenched discriminatory rule over Palestinians. A single authority, the Israeli government, rules primarily over the area between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, populated by two groups of roughly equal size, methodologically privileging Jewish Israelis while repressing Palestinians, most severely in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), made-up of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza. Drawing on years of human rights documentation, case studies and a review of government planning documents, statements by officials and other sources, [this report] examines Israel's treatment of Palestinians and evaluates whether particular Israeli policies and practices in certain areas amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Uriel Abulof
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107097070

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The Mortality and Morality of Nations by Uriel Abulof Pdf

This book answers how mortality and morality figure and intertwine in the life and death of nations - both in theory and in practice.

Author : David A. Charters
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349199754

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The British Army and Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 1945-47 by David A. Charters Pdf

The first comprehensive scholarly study of the British Army's campaign against the Jewish insurgency in postwar Palestine, this book shows how outdated doctrine, traditional resistance to change, and postwar turbulence hampered the army's efforts to modify its counter-insurgency tactics. It also shows why the security forces failed to develop intelligence sufficient to defeat the insurgents.

Author : Arie Bober
Publisher : Akiva ORR
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Israel
ISBN : 0385014678

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The Other Israel by Arie Bober Pdf

Author : Michael J. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520332904

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Truman and Israel by Michael J. Cohen Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Author : Nathan A. Kurz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108834926

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Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust by Nathan A. Kurz Pdf

Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of the twentieth century. For nearly a century, Jewish lawyers and advocacy groups in Western Europe and the United States had pioneered forms of international rights protection, tying the defense of Jews to norms and rules that aspired to curb the worst behavior of rapacious nation-states. In the wake of the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel, however, Jewish activists discovered they could no longer promote the same norms, laws and innovations without fear they could soon apply to the Jewish state. Using previously unexamined sources, Nathan Kurz examines the transformation of Jewish internationalism from an effort to constrain the power of nation-states to one focused on cementing Israel's legitimacy and its status as a haven for refugees from across the Jewish diaspora.

Author : Jeffrey Herf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316517963

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Israel's Moment by Jeffrey Herf Pdf

A new account of support for and opposition to Zionist aspirations in Palestine in the United States and Europe from 1945 to 1949.