The Pivotal Years: Israel and the Arab World 1966 - 1977 Volume One

ISBN-13: 9780998637402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 682 str.

Clifford Sobin

Opis

Would you like to witness the riveting voyage between 1966 and 1977, when Israel and the Arab world journeyed from confrontation and violence to a fragile, imperfect peace? Do you want to discover how Israel survived wars, terrorism, diplomatic isolation and internal disruption while holding to her principles that true peace with the Arab world required normalized relations and direct negotiations, not international guarantees that would only temporarily bring an absence of war? Clifford Sobin, in a captivating literary style that covers the broad sweep of eleven pivotal years, reveals in the Pivotal Years: Israel and the Arab World 1966-1977, the frightening, frustrating and inspiring events that began with the threat of Israel's annihilation and culminated with an Egyptian President visiting Jerusalem on a mission of peace. Writing incisively but also comprehensively, Sobin seamlessly weaves narrative and historical events in a captivating manner that reads like a suspenseful thriller, but that also definitively connects the dots during the most pivotal period in Israel's history. Over the course of one hundred, linked chapters some of the topics you will become intimately familiar with are:

• The Six Day War - What led to it, how it was fought, and the aftermath
• Jordan's attempts to play on both sides of the political fence
• The PLO's rise
• The Yom Kippur War - How the Arabs achieved a surprise, Israel's near defeat, and Israel's tarnished victory
• The failures and bias of the United Nations
• The beginning of the Settlers' movement
• How the prospect for peace was finally achieved

In addition, the book delves deeply into the motives and actions of the leading personalities of the time that shaped the region, including: Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Henry Kissinger, David "Dadu" Elazar, Yasser Arafat, Anwar Sadat, Hafiz al-Asad, and King Hussein. To write this enthralling, historic work, Clifford Sobin brought to bear the full weight of his talents as a communicator learned over more than thirty years as a trial attorney, as an author of a definitive legal treatise, and as an engaging lecturer on topics ranging from the law to the Holocaust. But equally important, in this book that entertains as well as educates, Sobin harnessed together his passion for the region, his capacity for thorough research, his knowledge gained from frequent trips to Israel, and his devotion to explaining the past as it was so that all of us may better formulate opinions about current challenges and events. Please buy this book now Volume One covers the period from November 1966 to 2:00 p.m. on October 6, 1973. Volume Two takes up the narrative with the Egyptian and Syrian armies launching a surprise attack on Israel that threatens her existence. It ends with Sadat's momentous arrival at Ben Gurion airport on November 19, 1977. The Kindle version contains both volumes.