Pan-Arabism before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question (Studies in Middle Eastern History) PDF
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Pan-Arabism before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question MICHAEL DORAN Oxford University Press Pan-Arabism before Nasser Studies in Middle Eastern History BERNARDLEWIS,ITAMARRABINOVICH,ANDROGERSAVORY GeneralEditors THETURBANFORTHECROWN NASSER’S‘‘BLESSEDMOVEMENT’’ TheIslamicRevolutioninIran Egypt’sFreeOfficersandthe SaidAmirArjomand JulyRevolution JoelGordon THEARABPRESSINTHEMIDDLE EAST THEYOUNGTURKSINOPPOSITION AHistory M.S¸u¨kru¨ Haniog˘lu AmiAyalon CROSS-CULTURALENCOUNTERS IRAN’SFIRSTREVOLUTION ANDCONFLICTS Shi’ismandtheConstitutionalRevolution CharlesIssawi of1905–1909 THEFERTILECRESCENT,1800–1914 MangolBayat ADocumentaryEconomicHistory SADDAM’SWORD EditedbyCharlesIssawi PoliticalDiscourseinIraq THEMAKINGOFSAUDIARABIA, OfraBengio 1916–1936 FromChieftaincytoMonarchicalState ISLAMICREFORM JosephKostiner PoliticsandSocialChangein LateOttomanSyria EUNUCHSANDSACRED DavidDeanCommins BOUNDARIESINISLAMICSOCIETY ShaunMarmon KINGHUSSEINANDTHE CHALLENGEOFARABRADICALISM THEIMPERIALHAREM Jordan,1955–1967 WomenandSovereigntyinthe UrielDann OttomanEmpire LesliePierce PAN-ARABISMBEFORENASSER EgyptianPowerPoliticsandthe FROMABDULLAHTOHUSSEIN PalestineQuestion JordaninTransition MichaelDoran RobertB.Satloff Othervolumesareinpreparation. PAN-ARABISM before NASSER Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine Question MICHAEL DORAN NewYork Oxford OxfordUniversityPress 1999 1 Oxford NewYork Auckland Bangkok BuenosAires CapeTown Chennai DaresSalaam Delhi HongKong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Mumbai Nairobi Sa˜oPaulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto andanassociatedcompanyinBerlin Copyright(cid:1)1999byOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com FirstissuedasanOxfordUniversityPresspaperback,2002 OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Doran,MichaelScott,1962– Pan-ArabismbeforeNasser:Egyptianpowerpoliticsandthe Palestinequestion/MichaelDoran. p. cm.—(StudiesinMiddleEasternhistory) Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN0-19-512361-1;0-19-516008-8(pbk.) 1.Egypt—Politicsandgovernment—1919–1952. 2.Pan-Arabism. 3.Egypt—Foreignrelations—Arabcountries. 4.Arab-Israeli conflict. I.Title. II.Series:StudiesinMiddleEasternhistory DT107.82.D67 1999 962.05—dc21 98-23001 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper For Mark Mancall Acknowledgments I WELCOME this opportunity to thank Professor L. Carl Brown, who supported me in this project from the beginning, and who made many useful commentsonthemanuscript.Hisprofessionalismwillalwaysbeamodelforme. IoweanimmensedebtofgratitudetoProfessorMichaelCook,whohelpedme refinemyideas,readeverydraftchapter,andmadeinvaluablesuggestions.Many thanks are due to Professor Robert Tignor, who also read the entire draft and offeredmanyhelpfulcomments.ProfessorBernardLewisdirectedmetoanum- berofvaluablesources,readseveraldraftchapters,andbolsteredmyconfidence. ProfessorAbrahamUdovitchalsoreadpartsofthemanuscript;whenworkspace and moral support were in short supply, he provided both. Professor Norman Itzkowitzreadtwochaptersandmadehelpfulcomments. My views on the postwar Middle East developed in tandem with those of Joshua Landis, from whom I have learned much about Syria. Joe Maiolo read andcommentedontwochapters;moreimportant,heactuallyenjoyedtalkingat length about the balance of power. Professor Yohanan Friedmann, Professor Andras Hamori, Shahab Ahmed, and Abdelmajid Hannoum helped me with translations. Avraham Sela’s unpublished Ph.D. thesis aided me in more ways thanmyfootnotesindicate,notleastofallbecauseitdemonstratedtheimmense valueofthesecondvolumeofthememoirsofTahaal-Hashimi.Muhammadal- Masri introduced me to Jordan; he opened his library, providing me with rare sources that do not bear directly on this book but nonetheless inform its per- spective.IbenefitedmorethanoncefromthecriticaleyeofStephenLarsen,who deservesmanythanks. The writing of this book would not have been possible were it not for the backingthatIreceivedfromtheDepartmentofNearEasternStudiesatPrinceton, and, in particular, from its Chairman, Professor Andras Hamori. In addition, I am very grateful for the generous financial support that I received from the Fulbright-HaysResearchCommitteeandfromPrincetonUniversity.MaryCra- parotta, Kathleen Knight-O’Neill, David Redman, and Nancy Carnes offered manykindnessesbeyondtheirobligations.AttheOxfordUniversityPress,Tho- masLeBienwasparticularlyhelpfulandpatient;BarryKatzen’scopyeditingim- provedmytext. Myparentscannotbeadequatelyacknowledgedinthisspace;norcanMelanie, whowaited. This page intentionally left blank Contents ANoteonTransliterationandTerminology,x Introduction,3 ONE TheTaprootofEgyptianForeignPolicy,9 TWO IntheAmericanEra,44 THREE TheKeystoneintheArch,66 FOUR PalestinebetweentheRegionalBlocs,94 FIVE TheDecisiontoIntervene,128 SIX WarandContainment,156 Conclusion,193 Notes,197 Bibliography,221 Index,227
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