Israel: the First Hundred Years: Volume II: From War to Peace?

by Karsh; Ephraim

• ISBN13: 9780714680231
• ISBN10: 0714680230
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-10-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The end of the British mandate in Palestine heralded the birth of the new state of Israel. It also marked the end of one of the most tumultuous and momentous chapters in Israeli history. But the new state, born into a hostile environment and struggling with the manifold demands of sovereignty, would have to face many post-Independence challenges to its existence, not least in the form of armed conflict and confrontation with its Arab neighbours. This volume examines the conflicts that from the 1948 until the 1967 Six Day War came to define the Israeli struggle for existence. In doing so, contributors analyze the various military challenges to Israel from both the military and strategic perspective and in terms of the demands that these conflicts placed on Israeli society and political life. The final section addresses the peace process from the time of the Oslo Accords, while focusing on some of the key issues in any future settlement, most notably Jerusalem's future status.

Table of Contents

PART I: FROM WAR TO WAR
The Forgotten War: Jewish-Palestinian Strife in Mandatory Palestine, December 1947--May 1948	3	(19)
David Tal
Shall We Go to War? And If We Do, When? The Genesis of the Internal Debate in Israel on the Road to the Sinai War	22	(21)
Motti Golani
The 1956 Sinai Campaign: David Ben-Gurion's Policy on Gaza, the Armistice Agreement and French Mediation	43	(25)
Mordechai Gazit
The `Tranquil Decade' Re-examined: Arab-Israeli Relations During the Years 1957--67	68	(15)
Menachem Klein
Israel's Nuclear Programme, the Six Day War and Its Ramifications	83	(16)
Shlomo Aronson
PART II: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON NATIONAL SECURITY
Towards a Paradigm Shift in Israel's National Security Conception	99	(16)
Uri Bar-Joseph
Patterns of War Initiation in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Note on the Military Dimension	115	(14)
David Rodman
Israel's Nuclear History	129	(30)
Edwin S. Cochran
PART III: TOWARDS PEACE
Jewish-Non-Palestinian-Arab Negotiations: The First Phase	159	(18)
Eliezer Tauber
Transition from Conflict: The Importance of Pre-Negotiations in the Oslo Peace Process	177	(23)
Ilan G. Gewurz
Unambiguous Ambiguity: The Opacity of the Oslo Peace Process	200	(21)
Nadav Morag
The Netanyahu Era: From Crisis to Crisis, 1996--99	221	(17)
Neill Lochery
Jerusalem: Partition Plans for a Holy City	238	(18)
Elisha Efrat
Arab-Israeli Coexistence: The Causes, Achievements and Limitations	256	(15)
Efraim Inbar
Abstracts	271	(6)
Index to Volume 6	277