A History of Israel

by Bregman, Ahron

• ISBN13: 9780333676318
• ISBN10: 0333676319
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

A History of Israel examines Israel's turbulent history from the first Zionist Congress in 1897 to the present day. The driving themes of this masterly account are Jewish immigration, war, and attempts to forge peace between Israelis, Arabs, and Palestinians.

Author Biography

Ahron Bregman is Lecturer in History at Webster University, London.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	x
Preface	xi
The Road to Statehood, 1897--1947	1	(43)
Theodor Herzl	1	(6)
Eretz Yisrael	7	(6)
Palestine in the First World War	13	(5)
The post-war period	18	(3)
The British Mandate	21	(6)
The Arab Rebellion, 1936--39	27	(6)
Palestine in the Second World War	33	(4)
Turning on the British	37	(2)
Partition and civil war	39	(5)
The Birth of Israel, 1948--1949	44	(26)
Friday, 14 May 1948	44	(3)
War	47	(12)
End of war and the emergence of a democracy	59	(11)
Years of Consolidation, 1950--1966	70	(34)
Mass immigration	70	(1)
Communal problems	71	(4)
The economy in crisis	75	(4)
Tensions along the borders	79	(2)
New leadership	81	(5)
The politicization of the Holocaust	86	(2)
The 1956 Kadesh campaign and after	88	(5)
Domestic issues	93	(2)
The Lavon Affair	95	(3)
Germany again	98	(2)
Enter Levy Eshkol	100	(4)
The Six-Day War and Afterwards, 1967--1973	104	(35)
Descent to war	104	(6)
The waiting period	110	(6)
Six days of war	116	(7)
The new society	123	(2)
Snail's pace diplomacy	125	(4)
Enter Golda Meir	129	(1)
War of attrition	130	(4)
Golda and Anwar el-Sadat	134	(2)
Terrorism, immigration and riots	136	(3)
Yom Kippur War and the Death of Labour, 1973--1977	139	(29)
Sadat prepares war	139	(3)
Israel stumbles into the trap	142	(9)
Invasion	151	(3)
Fighting back	154	(2)
Post-war: society and diplomacy	156	(1)
The Agranat report	157	(2)
Enter Yitzhak Rabin	159	(6)
Enter Shimon Peres	165	(3)
Begin's Years, 1977--1983	168	(37)
Building a coalition	168	(2)
First steps to peace	170	(6)
The home front	176	(7)
Camp David and after	183	(8)
`Tamuz 1'	191	(3)
A second Likud government	194	(2)
War in Lebanon	196	(9)
The Road to Peace, 1983--1991	205	(31)
Enter Yitzhak Shamir	205	(3)
Working Together	208	(7)
Intifada	215	(6)
Immigration and death of the coalition	221	(6)
War and immigration	227	(3)
The road to peace	230	(2)
The Madrid Peace Conference	232	(4)
Peace and War, 1992 to Present	236	(51)
Enter Yitzhak Rabin	236	(18)
Enter Benjamin Netanyahu	254	(7)
Enter Ehud Barak	261	(16)
Enter Ariel Sharon	277	(10)
Appendix 1: The Dayan el-Tohami Protocol, 1977	287	(4)
Appendix 2: Draft Declaration of Principles, Israel--Syria, 1992	291	(4)
Notes	295	(7)
Further Reading	302	(6)
Index	308