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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796640403321

Autore

Rubin Avshalom

Titolo

The limits of the land : how the struggle for the West Bank shaped the Arab-Israeli conflict / / Avshalom Rubin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-253-02910-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xx, 318 pages) :) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Perspectives on Israel Studies

Disciplina

956.04

Soggetti

Arab-Israeli conflict

Israelis - West Bank

Palestinian Arabs - West Bank

West Bank

West Bank Politics and government

Israel Politics and government 1948-1967

Israel Foreign relations Jordan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Partition's inheritance : the making of the Israeli-Jordanian entente, 1949-1962 -- 2. The Jordanian crisis of 1963 and its consequences -- 3. A status quo settlement? 1964-1965 -- 4. Louder than a bomb : Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians, 1964-1966 -- 5. Partition's undoing : the end of the Israeli-Jordanian entente, 1967 -- 6. The harvest of war, June-November 1967 -- 7. A chance for peace? 1968 -- 8. The Jordanian Civil War and the seeds of disengagement, 1969-1970.

Sommario/riassunto

Was Israel's occupation of the West Bank inevitable? From 1949-1967, the West Bank was the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Many Israelis hoped to conquer it and widen their narrow borders, while many Arabs hoped that it would serve as the core of a future Palestinian state. In The Limits of the Land, Avshalom Rubin presents a sophisticated new portrait of the Arab-Israeli struggle that goes beyond partisan narratives of the past. Drawing on new evidence from a wide variety of sources, many of them only recently declassified, Rubin argues that



Israel's leaders indeed wanted to conquer the West Bank, but not at any cost. By 1967, they had abandoned hope of widening their borders and adopted an alternative strategy based on nuclear deterrence. In 1967, however, Israel's new strategy failed to prevent war, convincing its leaders that they needed to keep the territory they conquered. The result was a diplomatic stalemate that endures today.