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In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence
and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of
Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already
on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces
and the Arab Liberation Army. With this book, the young men and
women who made up these armies come to life through their letters
home, writing about everything from daily life to nationalism,
colonialism, race, and the character of their enemies. Shay Hazkani
offers a new history of the 1948 War through these letters,
focusing on the people caught up in the conflict and its
transnational reverberations. Dear Palestine also examines how the
architects of the conflict worked to influence and indoctrinate key
ideologies in these ordinary soldiers, by examining battle orders,
pamphlets, army magazines, and radio broadcasts. Through two
narratives—the official and unofficial, the propaganda and the
personal letters—Dear Palestine reveals the fissures between
sanctioned nationalism and individual identity. This book reminds
us that everyday people's fear, bravery, arrogance, cruelty, lies,
and exaggerations are as important in history as the preoccupations
of the elites.
In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence
and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of
Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already
on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces
and the Arab Liberation Army. With this book, the young men and
women who made up these armies come to life through their letters
home, writing about everything from daily life to nationalism,
colonialism, race, and the character of their enemies. Shay Hazkani
offers a new history of the 1948 War through these letters,
focusing on the people caught up in the conflict and its
transnational reverberations. Dear Palestine also examines how the
architects of the conflict worked to influence and indoctrinate key
ideologies in these ordinary soldiers, by examining battle orders,
pamphlets, army magazines, and radio broadcasts. Through two
narratives-the official and unofficial, the propaganda and the
personal letters-Dear Palestine reveals the fissures between
sanctioned nationalism and individual identity. This book reminds
us that everyday people's fear, bravery, arrogance, cruelty, lies,
and exaggerations are as important in history as the preoccupations
of the elites.
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