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Originally published in 1991, The Roots of Appeasement outlines the
attitudes of the British weekly press and its editors to Nazism and
to German and British foreign policies during the 1930s. It
analyses and interprets the reasons which underlay those attitudes.
Aided by the evidence of the weeklies, it sheds additional light on
the roots and development of appeasement. After introducing the
weeklies and their editors, the study conveys and examines their
attitudes to the European crises of 1935-9 and one chapter focusses
on the popular fear of air attack as reflected in the journals. The
major conclusion of the book is that a consensus supporting
appeasement emerged in the weeklies in the course of 1935 and that
it remained virtually intact until September 1938.
Originally published in 1991, The Roots of Appeasement outlines the
attitudes of the British weekly press and its editors to Nazism and
to German and British foreign policies during the 1930s. It
analyses and interprets the reasons which underlay those attitudes.
Aided by the evidence of the weeklies, it sheds additional light on
the roots and development of appeasement. After introducing the
weeklies and their editors, the study conveys and examines their
attitudes to the European crises of 1935-9 and one chapter focusses
on the popular fear of air attack as reflected in the journals. The
major conclusion of the book is that a consensus supporting
appeasement emerged in the weeklies in the course of 1935 and that
it remained virtually intact until September 1938.
At a time when the Middle East has come closer to achieving peace than ever before, eminent Israeli historian Benny Morris explodes the myths cherished by both sides to present an epic history of Zionist-Arab relations over the past 120 years.
Tracing the roots of political Zionism back to the pogroms of Russia and the Dreyfus Affair, Morris describes the gradual influx of Jewish settlers into Palestine and the impact they had on the Arab population. Following the Holocaust, the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948 resulted in the establishment of the State of Israel, but it also shattered Palestinian Arab society and gave rise to a massive refugee problem. Morris offers distinctive accounts of each of the subsequent Israeli-Arab wars and details the sporadic peace efforts in between, culminating in the peace process initiated by the Rabin Government. In a new afterword to the Vintage edition, he examines Ehud Barak’s leadership, the death of President Assad of Syria, and Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, and the recent renewed conflict with the Palestinians. Studded with illuminating portraits of the major protagonists, Righteous Victims provides an authoritative record of the middle east and its continuing struggle toward peace.
A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century
virtuoso of espionage  “Mr. Morris’s dogged research . .
. lends impressive rigor to this portrait of an often-cryptic
figure.â€â€”Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal  Sidney Reilly
(c. 1873–1925) is one of the most colorful and best-known spies
of the twentieth century. Emerging from humble beginnings in
southern Russia, Reilly was an inventive multilingual businessman
and conman who enjoyed espionage as a sideline. By the early
twentieth century he was working as an agent for Scotland Yard,
spying on émigré communities in Paris and London, with occasional
sorties to Germany, Russia, and the Far East. He spent World War I
in the United States, brokering major arms deals for tsarist
Russia, and then decided to become a professional spy, joining the
ranks of MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service. He came
close to overthrowing the Bolshevik regime in Moscow before
eventually being lured back to Russia and executed. Said to have
been the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s iconic James Bond
character, Reilly was simultaneously married to three or four women
and had mistresses galore. Sifting through the reality and the myth
of Reilly’s life, historian Benny Morris offers a fascinating
portrait of one of the most intriguing figures from the golden age
of spies.
A Financial Times Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Book of the
Year A Spectator Book of the Year "A landmark contribution to the
study of these epochal events." -Times Literary Supplement
"Brilliantly researched and written...casts a careful eye upon the
ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman
empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian
subjects...Hitler and the Nazis gleaned lessons from this genocide
that they then applied to their own efforts to extirpate Jews."
-Jacob Heilbrun, The Spectator Between 1894 and 1924, three waves
of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian
minorities. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, once
nearly a quarter of the population, had been reduced to 2 percent.
Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated
events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an
unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the
first account to show that all three were actually part of a
single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's
Christian population. Despite the dramatic swing from the
Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing
republicanism of the post-World War I period, the nation's
annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual
recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation,
forced conversion, and mass rape. And one thing more was a
constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the
teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was
effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create
a pure Muslim nation. "A subtle diagnosis of why, at particular
moments over a span of three decades, Ottoman rulers and their
successors unleashed torrents of suffering." -Bruce Clark, New York
Times Book Review
One of the events most crucial to the war in the Persian Gulf
occurred nearly ten years before it began, when Israel destroyed
Iraq's most advanced weapon, the nuclear reactor at Al-Tuweitha,
acting on information obtained by Israeli intelligence. Israel's
Secret Wars is the first documented, comprehensive history of all
three of Israel's intelligence services, from their origins in the
1930s, through Israel's five wars, up to the present, including the
Ostrovsky affair. Highly readable and exhaustively researched, it
contains the most accurate information available about a shadowy
and controversial subject in which myth all too often obscures
reality. Using heretofore undisclosed contemporary reports,
memoranda, and private diaries, Israel's Secret Wars describes for
the first time in print the beginnings of the Israeli-U.S.
intelligence relationship; the Israeli-French espionage connection
during the Algerian War, which underlay their military alliance in
the Suez crisis; the fateful message from a high-level Arab agent
that initiated the Yom Kippur war; and many more previously
unexamined operations and episodes. Placing every event in its
historical context, Black and Morris disentangle the often stormy
links between spymasters and politicians in such affairs as the
Entebbe raid, Irangate, the Pollard spy scandal, and the
Palestinian intifada. Israel's Secret Wars promises to become the
standard work on Israeli intelligence for years to come.
Benny Morris demolishes misconceptions and provides a comprehensive
history of the Israeli-Arab war of 1948 This history of the
foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking,
objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the
military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political
dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the
protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western
documentation. The Arab side-where the archives are still closed-is
illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials.
Morris stresses the jihadi character of the two-stage Arab assault
on the Jewish community in Palestine. Throughout, he examines the
dialectic between the war's military and political developments and
highlights the military impetus in the creation of the refugee
problem, which was a by-product of the disintegration of
Palestinian Arab society. The book thoroughly investigates the role
of the Great Powers-Britain, the United States, and the Soviet
Union-in shaping the conflict and its tentative termination in
1949. Morris looks both at high politics and general staff
decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the
successive battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of
Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a humiliation that
underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.
This book looks at the development of Israeli-Arab relations during the formative years 1949 to 1956, focusing on Arab infiltration into Israel and Israeli retaliation. Palestinian refugee raiding and cross-border attacks by Egyptian-controlled irregulars and commandos were a core phenomenon during this period and one of the chief causes of Israel's invasion of Sinai and the Gaza strip in 1956. Morris deepens our understanding of the current situation in the Middle East and of the prospects for a lasting peace there.
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Postzionism - A Reader (Paperback)
Laurence Silberstein; Contributions by Raz Yosef, Ella Shohat, Benny Morris, Gershon Shafir, …
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Postzionism first emerged in the mid-1980s in writings by
historians and social scientists that challenged the dominant
academic versions of Israeli history, society, and national
identity. Subsequently, this critique was expanded and sharpened in
the writings of philosophers, cultural critics, legal scholars, and
public intellectuals. This reader provides a broad spectrum of
innovative and highly controversial views on Zionism and its place
in the global Jewish world of the twenty-first century. While not
questioning Israel's legitimacy as a state, many contributors argue
that it has yet to become a fully democratic, pluralistic state in
which power is shared among all of its citizens. Essays explore
current attitudes about Jewish homeland and diaspora as well as the
ways that zionist discourse contributes to the marginalization and
exclusion of such minority communities as Palestinian citizens,
Jews of Middle-Eastern origin (Mizrahim), women, and the queer
community. An introductory essay describes Postzionism and
contextualizes each contribution within the broader discourse. The
most complete collection of postzionist documents available in
English, this anthology is essential reading for students and
scholars of Jewish identity, Middle-Eastern conflict, and Israeli
history. This is the most comprehensive collection of postzionist
writings available in any language. It provides readers with new
and provocative ways to think about Israeli history, Israeli
national identity, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is of
particular interest to American readers is a section presenting
writings by American Jewish intellectuals and scholars that
contribute to the postzionist critique.
Morris' earlier work exposed the realities of how 700,000 Palestinians became refugees during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. While the focus of this edition remains the war and exodus, new archival material considers what happened in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, and how these events led to the collapse of urban Palestine. Revealing battles and atrocities that contributed to the disintegration of rural communities, the story is harrowing. The refugees now number four million and their cause remains a major obstacle to regional peace. First Edition Hb (1988): 0-521-33028-9 First Edition Pb (1989): 0-521-33889-1
Morris' earlier work exposed the realities of how 700,000 Palestinians became refugees during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. While the focus of this edition remains the war and exodus, new archival material considers what happened in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, and how these events led to the collapse of urban Palestine. Revealing battles and atrocities that contributed to the disintegration of rural communities, the story is harrowing. The refugees now number four million and their cause remains a major obstacle to regional peace. First Edition Hb (1988): 0-521-33028-9 First Edition Pb (1989): 0-521-33889-1
These essays, three of which appear for the first time, examine and elucidate aspects of the Arab exodus from Palestine in 1948, focusing on Israeli decision-making and the causes of the mass exile.
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