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From the prelude of the October 1973 Middle East war through the
signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in March 1979, Kenneth
W. Stein grippingly traces American involvement in the Arab-Israeli
negotiations. He provides an extraordinary range of first-hand
accounts, recollections and anecdotes from over eighty bureaucrats,
diplomats and military leaders who participated in Arab-Israeli
peace talks in the 1970's and since.
Since the official public record remains unavailable for reasons of
national security, these interviews provide unequaled insight into
the internal divisions, political intrigue and untold stories of
the peace process. Charting the complex and often contradictory
goals of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, the US and the USSR, Stein
chronicles the evolution of these negotiations and analyzes the key
roles of Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, and Begin. An introduction and
epilogue place this period in context of Arab-Israeli history since
1948 and the current status of the peace process.
For reasons of national security, official public records surrounding Americas involvement in the Arab-Israeli negotiations remain unavailable.Heroic Diplomacy provides an unequalled insight into the internal divisions and untold stories of the peace process. Covering an extraordinary range of first-hand accounts from over eighty bureaucrats, diplomats and military leaders who participated in Arab-Israeli peace talks from 1973 to 1978 the book charts the complex and often contradictory goals of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, the US and the USSR.
The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab-Israel
conflict. Kenneth Stein investigates in detail and without polemics
how and why Jews acquired land from Arabs in Palestine during the
British Mandate, and he reaches conclusions that are challenging
and suprising.
Stein contends that Zionists were able to purchase the core of a
national territory in Palestine during this period for three
reasons: they had the single-mindedness of purpose, as well as the
capital, to buy the land; the Arabs, economically impoverished,
politically fragmented, and socially atomized, were willing to sell
the land; and the British were largely ineffective in regulating
land sales and protecting Arab tenants.
Neither Arab opposition to land sales nor British attempts to
regulate them actually limited land acquisition. There were always
more Arab offers to sell land than there were Zionist funds. In
fact, many sales were made by Arab politicians who publicly opposed
Zionism and even led agitation against land acquisition by Jews.
Zionists furthered their own ambitions by skillfully using their
understanding of the bureaucracy to write laws and to influence key
administrative appointments. Further, they knew how to take
advantage of social and economic cleavages within Arab society.
Based primarily on archival research, "The Land Question in
Palestine, 1917-1939" offers an unusually balanced analysis of the
social and political history of land sales in Palestine during this
critical period. It provides exceptional and essential insight into
one of the most troubling conflicts in today's world.
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