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Israel in the Middle East Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present

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ISBN-10: 0874519624

ISBN-13: 9780874519624

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Itamar Rabinovich, Jehuda Reinharz

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This timely anthology, completely revised and updated from the original edition in 1984, provides convenient access to the most significant documents of the Zionist movement since 1882 and of Israel's domestic policies and foreign policies between 1948 and 2006. Comprised largely of primary sources from Israeli, Arab, and American records, documents encompass not only political and diplomatic history but economic, cultural, legal and social aspects of the region as well. The second edition also addresses areas not covered by the 1984 volume: a new chapter on the pre-state period, additional documents that reflect the Palestinian perspective, and the voices of women. Divided into seven…    
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List price: $60.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Publication date: 12/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 650
Size: 7.05" wide x 9.92" long x 1.52" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English

ITAMAR RABINOVICH, Yona and Dina Ettinger Chair in Contemporary History of the Middle East, is President of Tel Aviv University and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States. JEHUDA REINHARZ is Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and President of Brandeis University.

List of Maps
Preface
Introduction
Zionism and the Mandate, 1882-1948 Timeline
Manifesto, Summer 1882 - Bilu
Auto-Emancipation, October 17, 1882
A Solution of the Jewish Question, January 17, 1896
The Basle Program, August 31, 1897 - First Zionist Congress
The First Zionist Congress, August-September 1897
The Collective, 1904-1909: Memoir Manya Shochat
Balfour Declaration, November 2, 1917 - Lord Balfour, for the British Cabinet
Zionist Manifesto, December 21, 1917 - London Bureau of the Zionist Organization
Palestine White Paper, June 3, 1922 - Winston Churchill, for the British Government
Mandate for Palestine, July 24, 1922 Council of the League of Nations
The Iron Wall, November 4, 1923 Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky
Report Conclusions, July 7, 1937 Peel Commission
The Arab Awakening, 1938 George Antonius
White Paper, May 17, 1939 Malcolm MacDonald, for the British Government
The Biltmore Program, May 11, 1942 Emergency Committee of Zionist Affairs
Charter, March 22, 1945 League of Arab States
Status-Quo Agreement, June 19, 1947 David Ben-Gurion, for the Jewish Agency Executive
Proposals to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, July 23, 1947 - Ihud
Resolution 181, November 29, 1947 - United Nations General Assembly
Meeting of the National Administration and the Formation of a Provisional Government of Israel, May 12, 1948: Memoir Zeev Sharef
The New State of Israel, 1948-1956 - Timeline Domestic Issues
Proclamation of the State of Israel,May 14, 1948 - Jewish Agency Executive
The War of Independence, May 1948: Memoir David Ben-Gurion
First Ordinance of the State of Israel, May 19, 1948 Provisional Government of Israel
Ordinance on the Israel Defense Forces, May 26, 1948 Provisional Government of Israel
Declaration of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration, July 10, 1948 League of Arab States
Resolution 194, December 11, 1948 United Nations General Assembly
Jewish Religion and Israeli Democracy, 1948-1953: Memoir and Analysis
The Debate on a Constitution, February 1 and June 13, 1950 Israel First Knesset
The Law of Return, July 5, 1950 Israel First Knesset
The Absorption of Immigrants, August 1951
The German Reparations, December 1951-March 1952: Memoir Nahum Goldmann
The Transformation of the Israeli Army, 1952-1955: Memoir Moshe Dayan
Memorandum on the Mishap in Egypt, October 1954 Benyamin Givli Foreign Policy Issues
The Jordanian-Israeli Negotiations, March 22-23, 1949: Memoir Abdullah al-Tal
Armistice Agreement between Syria and Israel, July 20, 1949
Report Conclusions, November 20, 1951 - United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
The Challenge of the Fedayeen, February-August 1955: Analysis Ehud Yaari
Israel's Foreign and Middle Eastern Policy, May 28, 1955 Moshe Sharett
The Clash with David Ben-Gurion over Defense Policies, July 31, 1955 Moshe Sharett
The Quest for Arms, 1948-1967: Memoir Shimon Peres
The Anderson Mission, January-March 1956: Memoir Yaacov Herzog
The Background to the Sinai Campaign, November 1956: Memoir Yaacov Herzog
Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, 1948-1959: Analysis Walter Eytan
From the Sinai Campaign to the Six-Day War, 1956-1967 Timeline
Domestic Issuess
The Development Town, 1956-1966: Analysis Emmanuel Marx
Social and Ethnic Tensions in Wadi Salib, 1959: Memoir David Ben-Gurion
The Capture of Adolf Eichmann, May 24 and August 8, 1960
The Lavon Affair, 1961: Analysis J. L. Talmon
Jewish Religion and Israeli Nationality: The Brother Daniel Case, March 14, November 19, December 6, 1962 Israel Supreme Court
The Transition from David Ben-Gurion to Levi Eshkol, June 1963: Memoir Teddy Kollek
The Formation of a Center-Right-Wing Bloc, February-May 1965: Memoir Yohanan Bader
From "Israeli Arabs" to "Israel's Palestinian Citizens,"1948-1996: Analysis Itamar Rabinovich
Foreign Policy Issues
The Formulation of the Eisenhower Doctrine, January-March 1957
David Ben-Gurion and the Policy of the Periphery, 1958: Analysis
David Ben-Gurion and Israel's Regional and International Position, 1958: Analysis
Israel's Beginnings in Africa, 1956-1973: Memoir
American Arms for Israel, 1960-1964: Memoir
The Arab Summit Conferences, May 31, 1965
The Conflict with Israel, March 1966
The Last Stages of the Crisis, May 1967: Memoir
The Nasser-Hussein Reconciliation, May 1967: Memoir
Years of Euphoria, 1967-1973 Timeline
Domestic Issues
Administering the West Bank, June 1967: Analysis
The Conflict between Moshe Dayan and Pinhas Sapir, 1968: Analysis
The Israeli Left, 1970: Analysis
The Black Panthers, 1971: Analysis
Foreign Policy Issues
The Land-for-Peace Principle, June 19, 1967 - Government of Israel
The Soviet Union and the Six-Day War, June 19, 1967
The Khartoum Resolutions, September 1, 1967 - Fourth Arab Summit Conference
Resolution 242, November 22, 1967 - United Nations Security Council
The Palestine National Charter, July 17, 1968 - Palestine Liberation Organization
The War of Attrition, 1968-1970: Memoir
The Jordanian Crisis, September 1970: Memoir
Political Program, January 12, 1973 - Palestine Liberation Organization
The Eve of the Yom Kippur War, Spring-Summer 1973: Memoir
The Turning Point in the Yom Kippur War, October 16, 1973
The Yom Kippur War, October 1973: Analysis
War, Peace, and War Again, 1973-1982
Timeline
Domestic Issues
Interim Report, April 1, 1974 - Agranat Commission
The Protest Movements in the Aftermath of the Yom Kippur War, June 7, 1974
Israel's Road to Feminism, 1973-2000: Analysis
Prospects for the New Government, May 19-20, 1977
The Ideology of the National Religious Party, 1977: Analysis
Opinion Paper, January 1978
A Soviet Jewish Intellectual Abroad, December 1978
Manifesto, March 25, 1979 - National Committee for the Defense of Arab Lands
Platform, 1980 - Peace Now
The 1981 Elections, Fall 1981: Analysis
Foreign Policy Issues
Resolution 338, October 22, 1973 - United Nations Security Council
Decision to Accept Resolution 338, October 22, 1973
The Six-Point Agreement between Egypt and Israel, November 11, 1973
Sixth Arab Summit Conference, Algiers, Overview and Resolutions, November 28, 1973 - League of Arab States
Egyptian-Israeli Disengagement, December 1973-January 1974: Analysis
Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Israel, January 18, 1974
Seventh Arab Summit Conference, Rabat Resolutions, October 29, 1974 - League of Arab States
Political Program, June 9, 1974 - Palestine Liberation Organization
Disengagement Agreement between Egypt and Israel, September 4, 1975
Memorandum of Agreement between the United States and Israel regarding the Geneva Peace Conference, September 17, 1975
Resolution 3379 (Anti-Zionist Resolution), November 10, 1975 - United Nations General Assembly
Speech to the General Assembly on the Anti-Zionist Resolution, November 10, 1975
The United States and the Palestinian Issue, December 1, 1975
Yigal Allon in the Palace of the Shah, August 1976: Memoir
Speeches to the Knesset, November 20, 1977
Autonomy Plan, December 28, 1977 - Government of Israel
Resolutions 425 and 426, March 19, 1978 - United Nations Security Council
Camp David Accords, September 17, 1978
Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt, March 26, 1979
The West Bank and Gaza within the Framework of a Middle East Peace Settlement, 1948-1979: Analysis
A Survey of Israel's Contacts with Jordan, April 25, 1980: Analysis
The Reagan Peace Plan, September 1, 1982
The War in Lebanon, Summer 1982: Memoir
Report on the 1982 War in Lebanon, February 7, 1983
From War in Lebanon to Hope for Peace in Madrid, 1982-1991
Timeline
Domestic Issues
On Behalf of Pluralism, December 1982
The New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past, Autumn 1988: Analysis of 1947-1949
The "New Historians": The Past Is Not a Foreign Country, 1988-1996: Analysis
The Quandaries of an Israeli Minister of Absorption, 1989-1994: Memoir
The Ethiopian Emigration, May 1991: Memoir
Foreign Policy Issues
The Hezbollah Program: An Open Letter, February 16, 1985 - Hezbollah
The London Agreement between Jordan and Israel, April 11, 1987
The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, August 18, 1988 - Hamas
The Madrid Middle East Peace Conference, October 30-November 2, 1991: Memoir
A Decade of Hope, 1991-2000
Timeline
Domestic Issues
Position Papers, 1988 - Meimad
Speech to the Knesset on the 1992 Elections, July 13, 1992
Alice Miller v. Minister of Defense, November 8, 1995 - Israel Supreme Court
United Mizrahi Bank v. Migdal Cooperative Village, November 9, 1995 - Israel Law Review
Report on Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination, 1996 - Shamgar Commission
Arye Deri's Speech of April 23, 1997: Analysis
Report on the Conversion Law, January 22, 1998 - Neeman Commission
Arab Citizens of Palestine: Little to Celebrate, 1998:Analysis
A Russian Immigrant Looks at Israeli (or Jewish?) Culture, 1998: Analysis
The 1996 and 1999 Elections in Israel, 1996, 1999: Analysis
Between the Lines of the Election Results, May 24, 1999
Report on Clashes between the Security Forces and Israeli Citizens in October 2000, September 1, 2003 - Orr Commission
Revolution and Counterrevolution: The Israel Supreme Court from the 1980s Onward, 1980-2004: Analysis
Foreign Policy Issues
The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations, August 1993: Analysis
Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, September 13, 1993
Peace Treaty between Jordan and Israel, October 26, 1994
Speech to the Knesset, October 27, 1994
Opposition to Any Accommodation with Israel, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999 - Hamas
Oslo II Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, September 28, 1995
Amendment to the Palestine National Charter, May 4, 1996 - Palestinian Authority
Wye River Memorandum between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, October 23, 1998
The Appeal of the Palestinian People on the Fiftieth Anniversary of al-Naqba, 1948-1998
Resolution on Withdrawal from Lebanon, March 5, 2000 - Government of Israel
Proposal for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, December 23, 2000
Evolution of Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations, 2000-2001: Analysis
Mitchell Report, May 4, 2001 - Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee
Postscript, after 2000
Timeline
The Arab Peace Initiative (Beirut Declaration), March 28, 2002, League of Arab States
Remarks on the Middle East, June 24, 2002
A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, April 30, 2003, Government of the United States
Israel and Iraq after the Fall of Saddam Hussein, March 2004
Resolution regarding the Disengagement Plan, June 6, 2004 - Government of Israel
Speech to the World without Zionism Conference, Teheran, October 28, 2005
Speech to the Arab Lawyers Union Annual Convention, January 21, 2006
Speech to the Knesset on Israel's New Government, May 4, 2006
Speech to the Knesset on the Israeli-Hezbollah Summer War, July 17, 2006
Resolution 1701, August 11, 2006
United Nations Security Council
Speech at the Rabin Memorial Ceremony, Tel Aviv, November 4, 2006
Appendices
Presidents of the State of Israel, 1949-2007
Chiefs of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, 1939-2007
Governments of Israel, 1948-2006
Valid Votes for Prime Minister Elections, 1996, 1999, 2001
Jewish and Non-Jewish Population of Palestine-Israel, 1517-2004
Jewish Settlements Established in Palestine, Israel, and the Administered Territories by Region and Period of Settlement, before 1870-1997
Immigration to Israel, 1948-2004
Immigrants to Israel from Arab Countries, 1948-2004
American Immigration to Israel, 1948-2004
Jewish Immigration to Israel from the Soviet Union and Former Soviet Union, 1968-2004
Change in Level of Consumer Price Indices, 1973-2005
Number of Institutions and Students in the Educational System, 1948-2005
Glossary
Index