LEADER 03238nam 2200577 450 001 9910819011303321 005 20230125192654.0 010 $a0-253-02910-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000001041602 035 $a(OCoLC)1012364042 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse59780 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5150101 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001041602 100 $a20171215h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe limits of the land $ehow the struggle for the West Bank shaped the Arab-Israeli conflict /$fAvshalom Rubin 210 1$aBloomington, Indiana :$cIndiana University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 318 pages) :)$cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aPerspectives on Israel Studies 300 $aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. 311 $a0-253-02897-3 311 $a0-253-02888-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aWas Israel's occupation of the West Bank inevitable? From 1949-1967, the West Bank was the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Many Israelis hoped to conquer it and widen their narrow borders, while many Arabs hoped that it would serve as the core of a future Palestinian state. In The Limits of the Land, Avshalom Rubin presents a sophisticated new portrait of the Arab-Israeli struggle that goes beyond partisan narratives of the past. Drawing on new evidence from a wide variety of sources, many of them only recently declassified, Rubin argues that Israel's leaders indeed wanted to conquer the West Bank, but not at any cost. By 1967, they had abandoned hope of widening their borders and adopted an alternative strategy based on nuclear deterrence. In 1967, however, Israel's new strategy failed to prevent war, convincing its leaders that they needed to keep the territory they conquered. The result was a diplomatic stalemate that endures today. 410 0$aPerspectives on Israel studies. 606 $aArab-Israeli conflict 606 $aIsraelis$zWest Bank 606 $aPalestinian Arabs$zWest Bank 607 $aWest Bank 607 $aWest Bank$xPolitics and government 607 $aIsrael$xPolitics and government$y1948-1967 607 $aIsrael$xForeign relations$zJordan 607 $aWest Bank$2fast 615 0$aArab-Israeli conflict. 615 0$aIsraelis 615 0$aPalestinian Arabs 676 $a956.04 700 $aRubin$b Avshalom$01632608 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819011303321 996 $aThe limits of the land$93971883 997 $aUNINA