Description |
xliv, 236 pages ; 23 cm |
Series |
Cass series in Israeli history, politics, and society |
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Cass series--Israeli history, politics, and society.
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Contents |
1. New bottles, sour wine -- Old merchandise repackaged -- Archaic fetishism of facts -- 2. 'Falsifying the record': Benny Morris, David Ben-Gurion, and the 'transfer' idea -- Rewriting Ben-Gurion -- Fabricating protocols -- The final insult -- 3. The collusion that never was -- Looking in the wrong direction -- Miscomprehension of the decision-making process -- The Abdullah-Meir meeting: the Danin-Sasson reports -- The overlooked document: Meir's verbal report -- The Jewish Agency and the partition it never approved -- Transjordan annexation or an independent Palestinian state? -- Old hat, 'revisionist' feathers -- 4. The warning that Whitehall never gave -- Getting the picture wrong -- What Bevin said and didnot say to Abul Huda -- The warning that Bevin never gave -- 5. Bevin and the Jews: guardian angel or nemesis? -- Britain's quest for 'smaller Israel' -- Stunting the population ge=rowth of 'smaller Israel' -- Saving the Arabs from themselves -- Britain and the Arabs: partners in adversity -- Britain and the Jews: 'it's not personal, it's strictly business' |
Notes |
Previous ed.: 1997 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Historiography.
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Jewish-Arab relations -- Historiography.
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SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056684 -- Jordan http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79072819 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
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Jordan -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002770 -- Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
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Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097172 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
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LC no. |
00035876 |
ISBN |
0714650110 |
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071468063X (paperback) |
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