The Birth Of Israel

Author : Benny Morris
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300145243

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1948 by Benny Morris Pdf

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 : Simha Flapan
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Israel
ISBN : 0679720987

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The Birth of Israel by Simha Flapan Pdf

Drawing on recently declassified material, from Ben-Gurion's war diaries to the minutes of secret meetings, the author reconstructs the real events surrounding the founding of Israel, exposing many of the historical beliefs as propaganda myths that have m

Author : Simha Flapan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Eretz Israel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081793262

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The Birth of Israel by Simha Flapan Pdf

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612288369

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The Creation of Israel by Jim Whiting Pdf

The formation of the State of Israel in 1948 is one of the most important events in recent history. About 3,000 years ago, Israel was a powerful nation. But it soon fell from power and in the second century CE most Jews were forced out of their homeland. Many went to Europe, where they were subject to prejudice and persecution for centuries. By far the worst case was the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were killed. Their suffering accelerated a move toward the development of a Jewish state in what came to be called Palestine. However, Palestine was the home to hundreds of thousands of Arabs. Conflict between the two sides was inevitable. Open warfare broke out after the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. Though the Israelis achieved their independence, the region has never known true peace.

Author : Shlomo Sand
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844679461

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The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand Pdf

What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.

Author : Phillip Margulies
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0737717173

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The Creation of Israel by Phillip Margulies Pdf

Israel's creation in 1948 was the fulfillment of an ancient dream for the persecuted Jewish people, the culmination of 75 years of Zionist diplomacy and settlement, and a disaster for 700,000 Palestinian refugees. This anthology examines the forces that led to the creation of Israel and the unresolved issues that continue to rivet the world's attention to this small strip of land on the Mediterranean Sea.

Author : Jorge García Granados
Publisher : New York, Knopf
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005185734

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Author : Joseph Heller
Publisher : Ben-Gurion and His Critics
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0813026474

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The Birth of Israel, 1945-1949 by Joseph Heller Pdf

Here, Joseph Heller tells the story of the complex and often conflicting political calculations that led directly to the founding of the independent Jewish state of Israel in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. Examining the positions of many competing parties, he explains how and why the charismatic David Ben-Gurion prevailed: by shrewdly maneuvering between radical extremes on the left and on the right, he says, Ben-Gurion managed to steer a successful middle-of-the-road policy in favour of partition.

Author : Matti Friedman
Publisher : Signal
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771038822

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Spies of No Country by Matti Friedman Pdf

From the award-winning and critically-acclaimed author of Pumpkinflowers, the never-before-told story of the mysterious "Arab Section": the Jewish-"Arab" spies who, under deep cover in Beirut as refugees, helped the new State of Israel win the War of Independence. In his third non-fiction book, Matti Friedman introduces us to four unknown young men who are caught up in the fraught events surrounding the birth of Israel in 1948 and drawn into secret lives, becoming the nucleus of Israel's intelligence service. The tiny, amateur unit known as the "Arab Section" was conceived during WWII by British spies and by Jewish militia leaders in Palestine. Consisting of Jews from Arab countries who could pass as Arabs, it was meant to gather intelligence and carry out sabotage and assassinations. When the first Jewish-Arab war erupted in 1948 and Palestinian refugees began fleeing the fighting, a small number of Section agents disguised as refugees joined the exodus. They fled to Beirut, where they spent the next two years under cover, sending messages back to Israel over a radio antenna disguised as a clothesline. Of the dozen men in the unit at the war's beginning, five were caught and executed. Espionage, John le Carré once wrote, is the "secret theater of our society." Spies of No Country is not just a spy story, but a surprising window into the nature of Israel--a country that sees itself as belonging to the story of Europe, but where more than half of the population is native to the Middle East. Starring complicated characters with slippery identities moving in the shadow of great events, Spies of No Country tells a very different story about what Israel is and how it was created.

Author : Shira Robinson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804788021

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Citizen Strangers by Shira Robinson Pdf

“A remarkable book . . . a detailed panorama of the many ways in which the Israeli state limited the rights of its Palestinian subjects.” —Orit Bashkin, H-Net Reviews Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they nonetheless found their movement, employment, and civil rights restricted by a draconian military government put in place to facilitate the colonization of their lands. Citizen Strangers traces how Jewish leaders struggled to advance their historic settler project while forced by new international human rights norms to share political power with the very people they sought to uproot. For the next two decades Palestinians held a paradoxical status in Israel, as citizens of a formally liberal state and subjects of a colonial regime. Neither the state campaign to reduce the size of the Palestinian population nor the formulation of citizenship as a tool of collective exclusion could resolve the government’s fundamental dilemma: how to bind indigenous Arab voters to the state while denying them access to its resources. More confounding was the tension between the opposing aspirations of Palestinian political activists. Was it the end of Jewish privilege they were after, or national independence along with the rest of their compatriots in exile? As Shira Robinson shows, these tensions in the state’s foundation—between privilege and equality, separatism and inclusion—continue to haunt Israeli society today. “An extremely important, highly scholarly work on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians.” —G. E. Perry, Choice

Author : Jacob H. Singer
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781645301097

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The Birth of Israel by Jacob H. Singer Pdf

The Birth of Israel By: Jacob H. Singer This book takes you on the difficult journey of the Jewish nation and how it became the state of Israel. Following World War II, this story describes what the state of Israel had to go through. Jacob H. Singer came to Palestine in 1938, living in Tel Aviv, and personally experienced the conditions of the battle and events that led to the independence of Israel.

Author : Marlin Levin
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9652291862

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The Birth of Israel by Marlin Levin Pdf

Celebrating Fifty Years of Life 1948-1998.

Author : Eran Kaplan,Derek J. Penslar
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299284930

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The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948 by Eran Kaplan,Derek J. Penslar Pdf

In 1880 the Jewish community in Palestine encompassed some 20,000 Orthodox Jews; within sixty-five years it was transformed into a secular proto-state with well-developed political, military, and economic institutions, a vigorous Hebrew-language culture, and some 600,000 inhabitants. The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948: A Documentary History chronicles the making of modern Israel before statehood, providing in English the texts of original sources (many translated from Hebrew and other languages) accompanied by extensive introductions and commentaries from the volume editors. This sourcebook assembles a diverse array of 62 documents, many of them unabridged, to convey the ferment, dissent, energy, and anxiety that permeated the Zionist project from its inception to the creation of the modern nation of Israel. Focusing primarily on social, economic, and cultural history rather than Zionist thought and diplomacy, the texts are organized in themed chapters. They present the views of Zionists from many political and religious camps, factory workers, farm women, militants, intellectuals promoting the Hebrew language and arts—as well as views of ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionists. The volume includes important unabridged documents from the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict that are often cited but are rarely read in full. The editors, Eran Kaplan and Derek J. Penslar, provide both primary texts and informative notes and commentary, giving readers the opportunity to encounter voices from history and make judgments for themselves about matters of world-historical significance. Best Special Interest Books, selected by the Public Library Reviewers Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians

Author : Simha Flapan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987168863

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Author : Efraim Karsh,Rory Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317967767

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Israel at Sixty by Efraim Karsh,Rory Miller Pdf

Sixty years after the birth of Israel, this fascinating and original book of essays brings together a number of the leading experts on Zionism and Israel to examine the domestic and international context of Israel's transition from community to state in 1948. With contributions on a wide range of historically important topics that are no less relevant now than they were six decades ago, the book examines how countries as diverse as France, the United States, Turkey, Britain and Ireland viewed the partition of Palestine in 1947 and the subsequent establishment of Israel in 1948. It also looks at the involvement of the UN, Zionist and Arab leaders in the events immediately preceding Israel's birth. While controversial issues such as the role of the Holocaust in the creation of Israel and the attitude of the Zionist movement to Palestinian Arabs, from its onset to the 1948 war, are examined in order to set the record straight after decades of mistaken and misleading research. This book was previously published as a special issue of Israel Affairs.