04039nam 2200637Ia 450 991096856750332120200520144314.01-282-42256-197866124225600-472-02173-7(CKB)2550000000004567(OCoLC)503447209(CaPaEBR)ebrary10290007(SSID)ssj0000415565(PQKBManifestationID)11283522(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415565(PQKBWorkID)10411035(PQKB)10379960(MiAaPQ)EBC3414489(OCoLC)603463238(MdBmJHUP)muse8417(Au-PeEL)EBL3414489(CaPaEBR)ebr10290007(CaONFJC)MIL242256(BIP)46275108(BIP)26720637(EXLCZ)99255000000000456720090306d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDefending the Holy Land a critical analysis of Israel's security & foreign policy : with a new preface and afterword /Zeev Maoz1st paperback ed.Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press20091 online resource (743 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-472-03341-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-693) and indexes.Pt. 1. Foundations -- pt. 2. The use of force -- pt. 3. Israel's nuclear policy -- pt. 4. Forein policy: shadows and open diplomacy -- pt. 5. Causes and implications of the mismanagement of national security and foreign policy.Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Author Zeev Maoz's unique double perspective, as both an expert on the Israeli security establishment and esteemed scholar of Mideast politics, enables him to describe in harrowing detail the tragic recklessness and self-made traps that pervade the history of Israeli security operations and foreign policy. Most of the wars in which Israel was involved, Maoz shows, were entirely avoidable, the result of deliberate Israeli aggression, flawed decision-making, and misguided conflict management strategies. None, with the possible exception of the 1948 War of Independence, were what Israelis call wars of necessity. They were all wars of choice-or, worse, folly. Demonstrating that Israel's national security policy rested on the shaky pairing of a trigger-happy approach to the use of force with a hesitant and reactive peace diplomacy, Defending the Holy Land recounts in minute-by-minute detail how the ascendancy of Israel's security establishment over its foreign policy apparatus led to unnecessary wars and missed opportunites for peace. A scathing and brilliant revisionist history, Defending the Holy Land calls for sweeping reform of Israel's foreign policy and national security establishments. This book will fundamentally transform the way readers think about Israel's troubled history. Zeev Maoz is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He is the former head of the Graduate School of Government and Policy and of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, as well as the former academic director of the M.A. Program at the Israeli Defense Forces' National Defense College. Cover photograph: Israel, Jerusalem, Western Wall and The Dome of The Rock. Courtesy of Corbis.Arab-Israeli conflictNational securityIsraelIsraelForeign relationsArab-Israeli conflict.National security327.5694009/045Maoz Zeev849496MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910968567503321Defending the Holy Land4380923UNINA