The Israel-Arab Reader

by Laqueur, Walter; Rubin, Barry M.

• ISBN13: 9780140245622
• ISBN10: 0140245626
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

The Israel-Arab Reader is a thorough and up-to-date guide to the continuing crisis in the Middle East. It covers the full spectrum of the Israel-Arab conflict-from the earliest days, through the wars and peacemaking efforts, up to the Israel-PLO and Israel-Jordan peace accords. This comprehensive reference includes speeches, letters, articles, and reports dealing with all the major interests in the area from all of the relevant political parties and world leaders. Completely updated, consolidated, and revised throughout, The Israel-Arab Reader contains new sections on the Wye River agreement, and other recent developments, making it the essential resource on the ongoing conflict. Historians and Middle East specialists Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin have arranged the material chronologically and without bias. All viewpoints-American, Arab, British, Egyptian, Israeli, Palestinian, and Russian-are accurately presented.

Author Biography

Walter Laqueur, a professor of history and an expert commentator on international affairs, has written and edited more than twenty-five books.
Barry Rubin is deputy director of the BESA Center for Strategic Studies and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. He has written many books on Middle East politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
PART I: FROM THE BILU TO THE BRITISH MANDATE
Introductory Note	2	(1)
The Manifesto of the Bilu (1882)	3	(2)
Program of the League of the Arab Fatherland (1905)	5	(1)
Negib Azouri
``The Jewish State'' (1896)	5	(5)
Theodor Herzl
The Basle Declaration (1897)	10	(1)
The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)	11	(3)
The McMahon Letter (1915)	14	(2)
The Balfour Declaration (1917)	16	(1)
The Feisal--Weizmann agreement and Feisal-Frankfurter letters (1919)	17	(4)
Recommendations of the King--Crane Commission (1919)	21	(7)
Memorandum Presented to the King--Crane Commission by the General Syrian Congress (1919)	28	(2)
The British Mandate (1922)	30	(9)
PART II: PALESTINE 1920--1947
Introductory Note	38	(1)
The Churchill White Paper (1922)	39	(4)
The MacDonald Letter (1931)	43	(5)
From the Report of the Palestine Royal Commission (Peel Commission) (1937)	48	(2)
A Jewish State Now: Evidence Submitted to the Palestine Royal Commission (1937)	50	(3)
V. Jabotinsky
Against Partition: British Statement of Policy (1938)	53	(1)
The White Paper (1939)	54	(10)
The Zionist Reaction to the White Paper: Statement by the Jewish Agency (1939)	64	(2)
Towards a Jewish State: The Biltmore Program (1942)	66	(2)
Zionism and the Arab Cause (1941)	68	(4)
Adolf Hitler
The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry (1946)	72	(8)
The Arab Case for Palestine---Evidence submitted by the Arab Office, Jerusalem (1946)	80	(9)
The Case for a Bi-national State (1947)	89	(3)
The United Nations Takes Over: Summary Report of the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (1947)	92	(3)
U.N. General Assembly Resolution on the Future Government of Palestine (Partition Resolution) (1947)	95	(2)
Plan of Partition with Economic Union	97	(10)
PART III: ISRAEL AND THE ARAB WORLD 1948--1967
Introductory Note	106	(1)
State of Israel Proclamation of Independence (1948)	107	(2)
The Law of Return (1950)	109	(1)
The Manifesto of the United Arab Republic (Preamble) (1963)	110	(2)
The Draft Constitution of the ``Palestine Liberation Organisation'' (1963)	112	(3)
United Nations General Assembly Resolution on the Internationalization of Jerusalem (1949)	115	(1)
United Nations Security Council Resolution Concerning Restrictions on the Passage of Ships through the Suez Canal (1951)	116	(101)
President Nasser on Zionism and Israel	117	(2)
The Palestine Refugees (1958)	119	(3)
Ahmed Shukairy
The Other Exodus (1961)	122	(7)
Erskine Childers
The Refugee Problem (1958)	129	(11)
Abba Eban
A Call for Disarmament (1962)	140	(3)
Golda Meir
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965)	143	(1)
Fayez A. Sayegh
Towards the Third Round: Nasser's Speech at UAR Advanced Air Headquarters, May 25, 1967	144	(5)
Nasser's Speech to Arab Trade Unionists, May 26, 1967	149	(3)
An Armed Clash with Israel is Inevitable --- Why? (May 26, 1967)	152	(6)
Hassanain Haykal
Nasser's Speech to National Assembly Members, May 29, 1967	158	(2)
Nasser's Resignation Broadcast, June 9, 1967	160	(5)
``The Six Days War'' Speech at the Special Assembly of the United Nations, June 19, 1967	165	(20)
Abba Eban
The Right of Israel, June 28, 1967	185	(3)
Yizhak Rabin
``We Shall Triumph'' Nasser's Speech, July 23, 1968	188	(9)
Gamal Abdel Nasser
UN Resolution 242: A Common Denominator	197	(17)
Gideon Rafael
PART IV: FROM WAR TO WAR
Introductory Note	214	(3)
Security Council Resolution on the Middle East (November 22, 1967)	217	(1)
The Palestinian National Charter: Resolutions of the Palestine National Council	218	(5)
Fatah: The Seven Points	223	(6)
Platform of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine	229	(3)
Fatah's Doctrine	232	(13)
Y. Harkabi
``The Struggle Continues,'' Nasser's Speech to the Arab Socialist Union (March 27, 1969)	245	(9)
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Syrian Ba'th Party Congress Resolutions (April, 1969)	254	(4)
The Strategy of the War of Attrition	258	(10)
Hassanain Haykal
Ahmed Baha Ed-Dine Returning to Palestine	268	(6)
A Soldier Reflects on Peace Hopes	274	(9)
Moshe Dayan
Annexation and Democracy	283	(6)
Yehoshua Arieli
Speech (October 15, 1973)	289	(4)
Hafiz al-Asad
Message to Hawari Boumedien (October 9, 1973)	293	(1)
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Speech (October 16, 1973)	294	(9)
Anwar Sadat
Press Conference (October 31, 1973)	303	(2)
Anwar Sadat
Speech (April 3, 1974)	305	(5)
Anwar Sadat
Security Council Resolution 338 (October 22, 1973)	310	(1)
Statement in the Knesset (October 23, 1973)	310	(5)
Golda Meir
The Agranat Commission Report	315	(9)
Interview (August 3, 1974)	324	(5)
George Habash
Address to the UN General Assembly (November 13, 1974)	329	(11)
Yasir Arafat
The Meaning of ``A Democratic Palestinian State''	340	(12)
Y. Harkabi
Peace with Egypt?	352	(11)
Walter Laqueur
The Arab-Israeli Conflict	363	(11)
Elie Kedourie
The Egyptian-Israeli Accord on Sinai (September 1, 1975)	374	(11)
PART V: CAMP DAVID AND WAR IN LEBANON
Introductory Note	384	(1)
U.S. Foreign Policy and Peace in the Middle East (November 12, 1975)	385	(3)
Harold H. Saunders
Platform of the Likud Coalition (March 1977)	388	(1)
Peace with Justice (November 20, 1977)	389	(8)
Anwar Sadat
PLO: Six-Point Program (December 4, 1977)	397	(1)
Arab League Summit Conference Declaration (December 5, 1977)	398	(2)
Autonomy Plan for the Occupied Territories (December 28, 1977)	400	(3)
Menachem Begin
Statement on Palestinian Rights (January 4, 1978)	403	(1)
Jimmy Carter
Camp David Frameworks for Peace (September 17, 1978)	404	(5)
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty (March 26, 1979)	409	(1)
Arab League Summit Communique (March 31, 1979)	410	(1)
On the Camp David Agreement (September 25, 1979)	411	(1)
Andrei Gromyko
Interview on Camp David (November 19, 1979)	412	(1)
Yasir Arafat
Speech (March 8, 1980)	413	(1)
Hafiz al-Asad
European Council: Venice Declaration (June 13, 1980)	414	(1)
Israel Government: Fundamental Policy Guidelines (August 5, 1981)	415	(1)
The Fahd Plan (August 7, 1981)	416	(1)
Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz
West Bank Palestinians: Reactions to Camp David (August 30, 1981)	417	(2)
Egypt and Israel (October 14, 1981)	419	(1)
Hosni Mubarak
U.S.-Israel Memorandum of Understanding (November 30, 1981)	420	(1)
Israeli Law on the Golan Heights (December 14, 1981)	421	(1)
Israel's Security (December 15, 1981)	421	(4)
Ariel Sharon
Israel's Role in a Changing Middle East (Spring 1982)	425	(5)
Yitzhak Shamir
The Foreign Policy of Egypt in the Post-Sadat Era (Spring 1982)	430	(4)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Congressional Testimony (July 12, 1982)	434	(2)
George P. Shultz
The Wars of No Alternative and Operation Peace for Galilee (August 8, 1982)	436	(3)
Menachem Begin
The Reagan Plan (September 1, 1982)	439	(6)
Ronald Reagan
Twelfth Arab Summit Conference: Final Statement (September 9, 1982)	445	(2)
Jordan's Quest for Peace (Fall 1982)	447	(4)
El-Hassan Bin Talal
The Kahan Commission Report (February 7, 1983)	451	(5)
Speech to Palestine National Council (February 14, 1983)	456	(2)
Yasir Arafat
Palestine National Council: Political Statement (February 22, 1983)	458	(3)
United It Stalls: The PLO (March 21, 1983)	461	(3)
Barry Rubin
Jordan's Refusal to Join the Reagan Peace Initiative (April 10, 1983)	464	(5)
The Lebanon-Israel Truce Agreement (May 17, 1983)	469	(2)
Interview on Internal Dissent (May 26, 1983)	471	(2)
Said Musa
On the Dissident Rebellion (May 27, 1983)	473	(8)
Khalid al-Hasan
PART VI: THE APPROACH OF PEACE
Introductory Note	478	(3)
Speech to the Palestine National Council (November 22, 1984)	481	(5)
King Hussein
Jordan-PLO: Joint Communique (February 11, 1985)	486	(1)
Ending the Jordan-PLO initiative (February 19, 1986)	487	(14)
King Hussein
``The London Document'' (April 11, 1987)	501	(1)
Israel-Jordan
PLO Executive Committee: On the Intifada (December 1987)	502	(3)
West Bank-Gaza Palestinian Leaders: The Fourteen Points (January 14, 1988)	505	(2)
Unified National Command of the Intifada: Call No. 6 (February 1988)	507	(2)
Plan (March 6, 1988)	509	(1)
George Shultz
PLO Executive committee: Statement on the Intifada (April 1988)	510	(4)
United National Leadership of the Intifada: Calls 12, 16, and 18 (April-May 1988)	514	(13)
Disengagement from the West Bank (July 31, 1988)	527	(2)
King Hussein
Charter (August 1988)	529	(8)
Hamas
Palestine National Council: Political Resolution (November 15, 1988)	537	(5)
Palestine National Council: Declaration of Independence (November 15, 1988)	542	(4)
The Inevitability of Peace (January 21, 1989)	546	(1)
Husni Mubarak
Peace Plan (May 14, 1989)	547	(4)
Yitzhak Shamir
Ten-Point Plan (September 1989)	551	(1)
Husni Mubarak
Speech on the Intifada (September 1989)	552	(4)
Yasir Arafat
Five-Point Plan (October 1989)	556	(1)
James Baker
Two Speeches to the Arab Cooperation Council (February 1990)	556	(11)
Saddam Hussein
The PLO and the Gulf Crisis, (December 13, 1990)	567	(2)
Yasir Arafat
Palestine National Council: Political Communique (September 28, 1991)	569	(4)
U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians (October 18, 1991)	573	(4)
Speeches at the Madrid Peace Conference (October 31, 1992)	577	(12)
Yitzhak Shamir
Haydar Abd al-Shafi
Inaugural Speech (July 13, 1992)	589	(5)
Yitzhak Rabin
Speech on Fatah's Anniversary (December 31, 1992)	594	(3)
Yasir Arafat
Resigning from the PLO Leadership (August 1993)	597	(2)
Mahamoud Darwish
Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (September 13, 1993)	599	(10)
Agreed Minutes to the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements	609	(3)
Speeches at the Signing of the Declaration of Principles (September 13, 1993)	612	(3)
Bill Clinton
Yitzhak Rabin
Yasir Arafat
Speech to Parliament (September 21, 1993)	615	(5)
Yitzhak Rabin
Reaction to Israel-PLO Agreement (October 1, 1993)	620	(2)
Hafiz al-Asad
Opposition to the Israel-PLO Accord (October 1993)	622	(2)
Hani al-Hassan
West Bank-Gaza Palestinian Leaders: Memorandum to Chairman Yasir Arafat (November 1993)	624	(3)
Statement on Their Meeting (January 16, 1994)	627	(2)
Hafiz al-Asad
Bill Clinton
Israel-PLO: Cairo Agreement (March 4, 1994)	629	(13)
Speeches at the Singning of the Cairo Agreement (March 4, 1994)	642	(5)
Yitzhak Rabin
Yasir Arafat
Speech to Parliament (April 18, 1994)	647	(5)
Yitzhak Rabin
Speech on Accepting the UNESCO Peace Prize (July 6, 1994)	652	(3)
Yitzhak Rabin
Israel-Jordan: The Washington Agreement (July 26, 1994)	655	(3)
Speeches on Signing the Washington Agreement (July, 26, 1994)	658	(7)
King Hussein
Yitzhak Rabin
Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty (October 1994)	665	(9)
Speeches Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize (December 1994)	674
Yitzhak Rabin
Yasir Arafat
Shimon Peres