Scars of war, wounds of peace : the Israeli-Arab tragedy

369 Pages·2006·3.02 MB·English

by  Ben-Ami

Scars of War,
Wounds of Peace:
The Israeli-Arab Tragedy
SHLOMO BEN-AMI
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
scars of war,
wounds of peace
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scars of war,
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The Israeli-Arab Tragedy
SHLOMO BEN-AMI
2006
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Ben-Ami, Shlomo.
Scars of war, wounds of peace : the Israeli-Arab tragedy / Shlomo Ben-Ami.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-518158-6
ISBN-10: 0-19-518158-1
1. Arab-Israeli conflict. 2. Arab-Israeli conflict—1993– —Peace.
3. Zionism—History. 4. Israel—Politics and government. I. Title.
DS119.7.B3826 2005
956.9405—dc22
2005025383
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Printed in the United States of America
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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.
(Cedant arma togae, concedant laurea laudi)
Cicero, De Officiis, Book I, Chapter 
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Sir Winston Churchill, speech at the Mansion House,
London,  November 
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Contents
List of Maps ix
Preface xi
I Prelude: The Birth of an Intractable Conflict 
II Bisecting the Land or Zionism’s Strategy of Phases? 
III The Early Years: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? 
IV The Rise and Fall of the Third Kingdom of Israel 
V The Jewish Fear and Israel’s Mother of all Victories 
VI Sedanlaghen – The Sin of Hubris and its Punishment 
VII Begin’s ‘Capsule Theory’ and Sadat’s ‘Separate Peace’ 
VIII The Road to Madrid 
IX Oslo: The Glory and the Agony 
X The Barak Phase: On Freedom and Innocence 
XI The Politics of Doomsday 
XII Conclusions 
Bibliography 
Index 
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Maps
. The United Nations partition plan,  
. Israel after the armistice agreements in  
. Israel and the occupied territories,  
. Clinton’s peace plan,  