LEADER 04400nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910816751003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612352089 010 $a0-300-14524-1 010 $a1-282-35208-3 010 $a1-282-08949-8 010 $a9786612089497 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300145243 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764820 035 $a(OCoLC)666928641 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10348426 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000093049 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108411 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000093049 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10024372 035 $a(PQKB)11710118 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420531 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5292517 035 $a(DE-B1597)485377 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300145243 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420531 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348426 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235208 035 $a(OCoLC)923594269 035 $a(OCoLC)1198931189 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5292517 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208949 035 $a(OCoLC)1028955762 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764820 100 $a20070702d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a1948 $ea history of the first Arab-Israeli war /$fBenny Morris 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (556 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-12696-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 421-505) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tList of Maps --$t1. Staking Claims: The Historical Background --$t2. The United Nations Steps In: UNSCOP and the Partition Resolution --$t3. The First Stage of the Civil War, November 1947?March 1948 --$t4. The Second Stage of the Civil War, April?mid-May 1948 --$t5. The Pan-Arab Invasion, 15 May?11 June 1948 --$t6. The First Truce, 11 June?8 July 1948, the International Community, and the War --$t7. The ?Ten Days? and After --$t8. Operations Yoav and Hiram --$t9. Operation Horev, December 1948?January 1949 --$t10. The Armistice Agreements, January?July 1949 --$t11. Some Conclusions --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny 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. Throughout, he examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the refugee problem, which was a by-product of the disintegration of Palestinian Arab society. The book thoroughly investigates the role of the Great Powers?Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union?in shaping the conflict and its tentative termination in 1949. Morris looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the successive 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.  606 $aIsrael-Arab War, 1948-1949 607 $aPalestine$xHistory, Military$y20th century 607 $aPalestine$xPolitics and government$y1917-1948 607 $aPalestine$xHistory$y1917-1948 607 $aIsrael$xHistory, Military$y20th century 607 $aIsrael$xPolitics and government$y1948-1967 607 $aIsrael$xHistory$y1948-1967 607 $aIsrael$xForeign relations$zArab countries 607 $aArab countries$xForeign relations$zIsrael 615 0$aIsrael-Arab War, 1948-1949. 676 $a956.04/2 700 $aMorris$b Benny$f1948-$0145638 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816751003321 996 $a1948$9248925 997 $aUNINA