The bride and the dowry : Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the aftermath of the June 1967 War / / Avi Raz

• Autore: Raz Avi
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 438 p. ) : maps
• Disciplina: 956.046
• Soggetto topico: Arab-Israeli conflict - 1967-1973; Israel-Arab War, 1967
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Prologue. Two Peoples, One Land -- Preface -- Dramatis Personae -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- One. The Two Options: 5 June- Early July 1967 -- Two. The Jerusalem Syndrome: Late June- July 1967 -- Three. In Search of Docile Leadership: July- September 1967 -- Four. The Right of No Return: June- September 1967 -- Five. An Entity versus a King: September- November 1967 -- Six. A One- Way Dialogue: December 1967- January 1968 -- Seven. Go- Betweens: February- Early May 1968 -- Eight. The Double Game Redoubled: Mid- May-October 1968 -- Nine. "The Whole World Is Against Us": Epilogue -- Notes -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its history had something concrete to offer its Arab neighbors: it could trade land for peace. Yet the political deadlock persisted after the guns fell silent. This book sets out to find out why.Avi Raz places Israel's conduct under an uncompromising lens. He meticulously examines the critical two years following the June war and substantially revises our understanding of how and why Israeli-Arab secret contacts came to naught. Mining newly declassified records in Israeli, American, British, and UN archives, as well as private papers of individual participants, Raz dispels the myth of overall Arab intransigence and arrives at new and unexpected conclusions. In short, he concludes that Israel's postwar diplomacy was deliberately ineffective because its leaders preferred land over peace with its neighbors. The book throws a great deal of light not only on the post-1967 period but also on the problems and pitfalls of peacemaking in the Middle East today.
• Titolo autorizzato: The bride and the dowry
• ISBN: 1-280-77218-2; 9786613682956; 0-300-18353-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813444803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II