Avi shlaim is a professor of international relations at st antonys college, oxford. Avi shlaim has painstakingly gone through the israeli state archives as well as the public record office in london and interviewed many prominent notables including abba eban, king hussein, yitzhak rabin, shimon peres, and many other major players for this massive history of modern israel and its relations with the arab world. Israel and the arab world is the outstanding book on. Israel and the arab world kindle edition by shlaim. He was elected a fellow of the british academy in 2006. Buy the iron wall israel and the arab world updated, expanded ed.
Israel and the arab world is the outstanding book on israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on israel s most recent leaders. Avi shlaim was born in baghdad in 1945, grew up in israel, and studied at cambridge university and the london school of economics. As it celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, the state of israel could count many important successes, but its conflict with the palestinians and the arab world at large casts a long shadow over its history. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. It is hard to think of another issue on which feelings run as high as they do over the conflict.
Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. He detailed the foundation of zionism and the arab question arising from the first zionist. Israel and the arab world is the outstanding book on israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters. What was promulgated as an iron wall strategydealing with the arabs from a position of unassailable strengthwas meant to yield to a further stage where israel would be strong enough to. Shlaim presents compelling evidence for a revaluation of traditional israeli history. Shlaim ably sets out the belief, shared by israeli leaders of all political stripes, that the country had to build up an iron wall of strength and security in order to bring arab leaders to. Judith klipper director council on foreign relationsmiddle east studies. Israel and the arab world, and israel and palestine.
In iron wall, shlaim nails his colours firmly to the revisionist mast, stating at the outset. In the 1920s, hardline zionists developed the doctrine of the iron wall. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Israel and the arab world avi shlaim london, allen. Ilan pappe and avi shlaim emerged to challenge this old history. As it celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, the state of israel could. Anthonys college and a professor of international relations at the university of oxford. Avi shlaim, the iron wall, israel and the arab world delves into the arab israeli conflict from the assertion of israeli independence, however it also breifly yet discriptively and informatively discusses the concept of zionism and its rootsm including excerpts from herzl and jabotinsky. Avi shlaim is a professor emeritus of international relations at the university of oxford. Prime among the arguments of the book is its establishment of the iron wall avi shlaim is a methodological and holistic historian, and in the modern age he definitely stands among the few capable of documenting modern and nearpast events with authenticity, coherence, and wellconstructed narrative.
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