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The Arab-Israeli conflict:

a history
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Oxford University Press, 2008 - History - 495 pages
PrefaceNote on the TextList of Maps and PhotographsChapter One- The Intellectual and Physical Setting Chapter Two- Competing Ideologies Chapter Three- The Convergence Chapter Four- The Palestine Mandate Chapter Five- Independence and al-Nakba Chapter Six- Cold Wars and the Middle East Matrix Chapter Seven- The Earthquake Chapter Eight- The Road to 1979 Chapter Nine- Mutual Fallouts- Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Chapter Ten- A Decade of Hope Chapter Eleven- Breakdown ... Chapter Twelve- ... and Reconstruction? GlossaryChronologyFor Further ReadingIndex

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User Review  - Jonathan Flack - Goodreads

Excellent historical survey of the conflict. Objective and insightful. Read full review

Review: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History

User Review  - Elio Nakouzi - Goodreads

My humble and amateur opinion: It is a very well written account of the conflict. The author is generally not biased towards any of the parties involved, except, I felt, to the American peace ... Read full review

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Contents

Ylt The Intellectual and Physical Setting i
15
AttC The Convergence
45
DUT The Palestine Mandate
94
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David W. Lesch is Professor of Middle East History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His books include The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment, Fourth Edition (2007); The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria (2005); the two-volume work History in Dispute: The Middle East Since World War II, Volumes 14 and 15 (2003); 1979: The Year That Shaped the Modern Middle East (2001); Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East (1992); and The History of the United States in the Middle East (forthcoming).

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