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

Itamar Rabinovich, Jehuda Reinharz

UPNE, 2008 - Israel - 626 pages

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 and foreign policy issues 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 chronological sections, documents are introduced by an overview of the entire era. They are annotated and preceded by explanatory headnotes.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Zionism and the Mandate 18821948: 9
• Bilu Manifesto Summer 1882: 10
• Leon Pinsker AutoEmancipation October 17 1882: 12
• Theodor Herzl A Solution of the Jewish Question January 17 1896: 16
• First Zionist Congress The Basle Program August 31 1897: 21
• Ahad Haam The First Zionist Congress AugustSeptember 1897: 22
• Memoir: 25
• Lord Balfour for the British Cabinet Balfour Declaration November 2 1917: 29
• London Bureau of the Zionist Organization Zionist Manifesto December 21 1917: 30
• June 3 1922: 32
• Council of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine July 24 1922: 35
• Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky The Iron Wall November 4 1923: 41
• Peel Commission Report Conclusions July 7 1937: 44
• George Antonius The Arab Awakening 1938: 46
• Malcolm MacDonald for the British Government White Paper May 17 1939: 48
• Emergency Committee of Zionist Affairs The Biltmore Program May 11 1942: 54
• League of Arab States Charter March 22 1945: 56
• David BenGurion for the Jewish Agency Executive StatusQuo Agreement June 19 1947: 58
• July 23 1947: 60
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 November 29 1947: 61
• Memoir: 63
• The New State of Israel 19481956: 71
• League of Arab States Declaration of a Provisional Palestinian Civil: 87
• 48: 102
• Foreign Policy Issues: 116
• November 20 1951: 122
• From the Sinai Campaign to the SixDay War 19561967: 157
• Foreign Policy Issues: 188
• Years of Euphoria 19671973: 219
• Foreign Policy Issues: 238
• War Peace and War Again 19731982: 277
• Foreign Policy Issues: 331
• From War in Lebanon to Hope for Peace in Madrid 19821991: 411
• Foreign Policy Issues: 423
• A Decade of Hope 19912000: 441
• Avirama Golan Between the Lines of the Election Results May 24 1999: 477
• Citizens in October 2000 September 1 2003: 479
• The Israel Supreme Court from the 1980s Onward 19802004 Analysis: 484
• Analysis: 488
• Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization September 13 1993: 490
• Peace Treaty between Jordan and Israel October 26 1994: 494
• William Jefferson Clinton Speech to the Knesset October 27 1994: 497
• Hamas Opposition to Any Accommodation with Israel 1992 1994 1997 1999: 500
• Oslo II Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization September 28 1995: 502
• Palestinian Authority Amendment to the Palestine National Charter May 4 1996: 506
• Wye River Memorandum between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization October 23 1998: 507
• Mahmoud Darwish The Appeal of the Palestinian People on the Fiftieth Anniversary of alNaqba 19481998: 514
• Government of Israel Resolution on Withdrawal from Lebanon March 5 2000: 517
• William Jefferson Clinton Proposal for IsraeliPalestinian Peace December 23 2000: 518
• Sharm elSheikh FactFinding Committee Mitchell Report May 4 2001: 524
• Postscript after 2000: 531
• League of Arab States The Arab Peace Initiative Beirut Declaration March 28 2002: 532
• George W Bush Remarks on the Middle East June 24 2002: 533
• Government of the United States A PerformanceBased Roadmap to a Permanent TwoState Solution to the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict April 30 2003: 536
• Gal Luft Israel and Iraq after the Fall of Saddam Hussein March 2004: 541
• Government of Israel Resolution regarding the Disengagement Plan June 6 2004: 543
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Speech to the World without Zionism Conference Teheran October 28 2005: 544
• Presidents of the State of Israel 19492007: 567
• Jewish Settlements Established in Palestine Israel and: 573
• Jewish Immigration to Israel from the Soviet Union and Former: 579
• Glossary: 585
• Index: 607

About the author

ITAMAR RABINOVICH, Ettinger Professor of Contemporary History of the Middle East at Tel Aviv University, is the former 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present; Middle East studies; Schusterman series in Israel studies; Volume 5 of Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series; Tauber Institute series
• Editors: Itamar Rabinovich, Jehuda Reinharz
• Compiled by: Itamar Rabinovich, Jehuda Reinharz
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: UPNE, 2008
• ISBN: 0874519624, 9780874519624
• Length: 626 pages