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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824661103321

Autore

Thomas Baylis <1932->

Titolo

The dark side of Zionism : Israel's quest for security through dominance / / Balyis Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2009

ISBN

9780739132982

0739132989

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

320.54095694

Soggetti

Zionism

Zionism - Historiography

Arab-Israeli conflict - Causes

Israel Politics and government 20th century

Israel Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Concepts of colonization -- 2. History of colonization and Palestinian dispossession (1880-1948) -- 3. Hegemony in the Middle East -- 4. History of the Arab-Israeli wars (1949-1974) -- 5. Weapons diplomacy, the political use of arms -- 6. History of Israel's global weapons sales -- 7. Begin, Peres, Shamir and the Madrid Conference -- 8. Rabin and the Oslo Accords -- 9. Peres and Netanyahu and Wye River -- 10. Barak and Arafat at Camp David -- 11. Ariel Sharon: force over peace -- 12. Olmert and the 2006 Lebanon war -- 13. One-state, two-state or continued apartheid? -- 14. Terrorism  -- 15. The paradox of nationalism -- 16. Religion and possession in ancient Palestine.

Sommario/riassunto

The thesis of The Dark Side of Zionism, arising from new histories neglected by the media, is that both the early Zionists and the Israelis sought their security through military domination of the indigenous Arab population of Palestine. This strategy required avoiding negotiations with the Palestinians as well as demonstrating Israeli military might through wars initiated against Arab states opposed to an Israeli takeover of Palestine.