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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raz, Avi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict--1967-1973.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Israel-Arab War, 1967.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 438 p. ) maps

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-77218-2

9786613682956

0-300-18353-4

OCLC:

828617184