The Israel-Arab Reader A Documentary History o the Middle East Conflict

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by  Walter Laqueur

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The Israel-Arab
Reader
Edited by Waiter Laqueur
A documentary history of
the Middle East conflict
The essential documents, treati
and agreements behind the
conflict between Israel and
the Arab states -pluB
articles and speeches by
ArnddToynbee, J.L.Taimon
Nasser, Abba Eban, I. F, Ston<
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THE ISRAEL-ARAB READER
Walter Laqueur was born in Breslau (then in
Germany) in 1921. He is Director of the Institute
of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library
in London and Professor of the History of Ideas
and Politics at Brandeis University in America.
He is also co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary
History. His books are about Central and Eastern
Europe and the Middle East; those on the Middle
East are Communism and Nationalism in the
Middle East, The Middle East in Transition, The
Road to War (also published In Penguins), and
The Struggle for the Middle East (to be published
in Penguins),

The
Israel-Arab
Reader
A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF
THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
Edited by Walter Laqueur
PENGUIN BOOKS
Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, England
Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood*
Victoria, Australia
First published in the U.S.A. 1969
Published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969
Revised Edition published in Pelican Books 1970
Copyright © B0 L. Mazel, Inc„, 1969,1970
Made and printed in Great Britain by
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Contents
Introduction 11
Map H
Part i: From the Bilu to the British Mandate
Introductory Note J7
1. The Manifesto of the Bilu (1882) 19
2. Negih Azouri: Programme of the League of
the Arab Fatherland (1905) 21
3. Theodor Herzl: From ‘The Jewish State’ (1896) 22
4. The Basle Declaration (1897) 28
5. The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916) 29
6. The McMahon Letter (1915) 33
7. The Balfour Declaration (1917) 35
8. The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement and
Faisal-Frankfurter Letters (1919)
9. Recommendations of the King-Crane
Commission (1919) A1
10. Memorandum Presented to the King-Crane
Commission by the General Syrian Congress
(1919) 5i
11. The British Mandate (1922) 54
Part 2: Valestine 1920-47
Introductory Note 65
12. The Churchill White Paper (1922) 67
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13. The MacDonald Letter (1931) 73
14. From the Report of the Palestine Royal
Commission (Peel Commission) (1937) 79
15. V. Jabotinsky: ‘A Jewish State Now' Evidence
Submitted to the Palestine Royal Commission
(i9S7) 81
16. Against Partition: British Statement of
Policy (1938) 86
17. The White Paper of 1939 88
18. The Zionist Reaction to the White Paper §
Statement by the Jewish Agency (1939) 102
19. Towards a Jewish State: The Biltmore
Programme (1942) 103
20. Adolf Hitler, Zionism and the Arab Cause
(1941) 106
21. The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
(1946) in
22. The Arab Case for Palestine - Evidence
Submitted by the Arab Office, Jerusalem
(i946) 122
23. The Case for a Bi-national State (1947) 134
24. The UN Takes Over: Summary Report of the
UN Special Committee on Palestine (1947) 138
23. UN Resolution on the Future Government of
Palestine (Partition Resolution) (1947) 143
Part 3: Israel and the Arab World 1948-67
Introductory Note 137
26. State of Israel Proclamation of Independence
(1948) 139
27. The Law of Return (1930) 162
28. The Manifesto of the United Arab Republic
, (Preamble) (1963) 163
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29. The Draft Constitution of the 'Palestine
Liberation Organization’ (1963) 165
30. United Nations General Assembly Resolution
on the Internationalization of Jerusalem
(1949) 170
31. United Nations Security Council Resolution
on the Passage of Ships through the Suez
Canal (1951) I7I
32. President Nasser on Zionism and Israel 173
33. Ahmed Shukairy: The Palestine Refugees
(1958) 176
34. Erskine Childers: The Other Exodus (1961) 179
33. Abba Eban: The Refugee Problem (1938) 188
36. Golda Meir: A Call for Disarmament (1962) 202
37. Fayez A. Sayegh: Zionist Colonialism in
Palestine (1965) 206
38. Towards the Third Round: Nasser’s Speech
at U AR Advanced Air Headquarters,
23 May 1967 207
39. Nasser’s Speech to Arab Trade Unionists,
26 May 1967 214
40. Hassanain Haykal: An Armed Clash with
Israel is Inevitable - Why? (26 May 1967) 219
41. Gamal Abdel Nasser: Speech to National
Assembly Members, 29 May 1967 226
42. Gamal Abdel Nasser: Resignation Broadcast,
9 June 1967 230
Part 4: Views and Comments: The Arab-
Israeli Conflict today and Tomorrow
Introductory Note 239
Gamal Abdel Nasser: 'The Most Severe
Crisis5: Nasser’s Revolution Anniversary
Speech, 23 July 1967 241
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Abba Eban: ‘The Six Day War*: Speech
to UN General Assembly, 19 June
1967 252
Yizhak Rabin: The Right of Israel (28 June
1967) 277
Gamal Abdel Nasser: ‘We Shall Triumph9 §
Speech, 23 July 1968 281
Cecil Hourani: The Moment of Truth 293
Arnold Toynbee and ]. L. Talmon: The
Argument between Arabs and Jews 310
Albert Hourani: Palestine and Israel 325
]. L. Talmon: Israel and the Arabs 333
Hal Draper: The Origins of the Middle East
Crisis 340
N. T. Fedorenko: Perfidy and Aggression 336
1. F. Stone: Holy War 364
Marie Syr kin: I. F. Stone Reconsiders
Zionism 386
Bernard Lewis: The Arab-Israeli War: The
Consequences of Defeat 403
Walter Laqueur: Is Peace in the Middle East
Possible? 420
Part 5: From War to War?
Introductory Note
435
UN Security Council Resolution on the
Middle East, 22 November 1967
437
National Covenant of the Palestine
Liberation Organization 438
A! Fatah :
444
The Seven Points
444
An Interview with sAbu Ammar3
445
Contents 9
Platform of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine 451
Y. Harkabi: A1 Fatah’s Doctrine 445
Gamal Abdel Nasser: The Struggle Continues 1
Speech at the Opening of the Second
Session of the Arab Socialist Union
Congress at Cairo University, 27 March
1969 473
Syrian Ba’ath Party Congress Resolutions §
Text of Statement by Ba’ath Regional
Command of the Party’s Extraordinary
Fourth Regional Congress, April 1969 486
Hassanain Haykak The Strategy of the War
of Attrition 490
Ahmed Baha ed-Dine: Returning to Palestine 504
Abba Eban: Two Years Later 512
Moshe Dayan: A Soldier Reflects on Peace
Hopes 52 6
Yehoshua Arieli: Annexation and
Democracy ^8
Satre Looks at the Middle East Again 546
Bernard Lewis: The Great Powers, the Arabs
and the Israelis ^60
Uri Ra’anan: Soviet Global Policy and the
Middle East ^
A Selective Bibliography ^89