Fabricating Israeli history : the "new historians" / Efraim Karsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karsh, Efraim.

Series:

Cass series--Israeli history, politics, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

International relations.

Jewish-Arab relations--Historiography.

Jewish-Arab relations.

Palestine--History--1917-1948--Historiography.

Palestine.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Jordan--Historiography.

Great Britain.

Jordan.

Jordan--Foreign relations--Great Britain--Historiography.

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Historiography.

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.

Physical Description:

xliv, 236 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second, revised edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2000.

Contents:

1. New Bottles - Sour Wine 9

Old Merchandise Repackaged 16

Archaic Fetishism of Facts 32

2. 'Falsifying the Record': Benny Morris, David Ben-Gurion, and the 'Transfer' Idea 37

Rewriting Ben-Gurion 43

Fabricating Protocols 51

The Final Insult 59

3. The Collusion that Never Was 69

Looking in the Wrong Direction 72

Miscomprehension of the Decision-Making Process 77

The Abdullah-Meir Meeting: The Danin-Sasson Reports 86

The Overlooked Document: Meir's Verbal Report 93

The Jewish Agency and the Partition it Never Approved 96

Transjordanian Annexation or an Independent Palestinian State? 100

Old Hat, 'Revisionist' Feathers 103

4. The Warning that Whitehall Never Gave 109

Getting the Picture Wrong 112

What Bevin Said and Did Not Say To Abul Huda 116

The Warning that Bevin Never Gave 132

5. Bevin and the Jews: Guardian Angel or Nemesis? 143

Britain's Quest for 'Smaller Israel' 152

Stunting the Population Growth of 'Smaller Israel' 160

Saving the Arabs from Themselves 164

Britain and the Arabs: Partners in Adversity 176

Britain and the Jews: 'It's Not Personal - It's Strictly Business' 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0714650110

071468063X

OCLC:

43951922