Yoav Gelber traces the relation between the state of Israel and the Hashemite dynasty of Transjordan by focusing on the connection between the two regions from as early as 1921 when Abdullah first appeared on the Palestine scene and by concentrating as much on Jewish sources as British records.
Yoav Gelber traces the relation between the state of Israel and the Hashemite dynasty of Transjordan by focusing on the connection between the two reg...
This book is a refutation of Professor Avi Shlaim s theory of an alleged collusion between the Jews and king Abdullah (Collusion across the Jordan, Oxford University Press 1988, and The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists and Palestine, 19211951, OUP 1990). Shlaim asserts that to further his own aims of creating a greater Jordanian empire, Abdullah conducted secret diplomacy with David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and other Israeli leaders in self-serving maneuvers which hastened the partition of Palestine, and left more than a million Palestinian Arabs without a homeland....
This book is a refutation of Professor Avi Shlaim s theory of an alleged collusion between the Jews and king Abdullah (Collusion across the Jordan, Ox...
Based on new or newly interpreted Israeli, British and Arab documents, this book attempts to integrate present controversies concerning the development of the Jewish Palestinian war from December 1947 to mid-May 1948 and the consecutive Israeli Arab war. It follows the organization of both sides at the beginning of the war and the shaping of their respective war policies. Further, it describes the creation of the invading coalition and its disintegration in the wake of the Arab armies military failure. The book stresses mainly the processes that led Palestinian society to its collapse and...
Based on new or newly interpreted Israeli, British and Arab documents, this book attempts to integrate present controversies concerning the developmen...
Based on new or newly interpreted Israeli, British and Arab documents, this book attempts to integrate present controversies concerning the development of the Jewish Palestinian war from December 1947 to mid-May 1948 and the consecutive Israeli Arab war. It follows the organization of both sides at the beginning of the war and the shaping of their respective war policies. Further, it describes the creation of the invading coalition and its disintegration in the wake of the Arab armies military failure. The book stresses mainly the processes that led Palestinian society to its collapse and...
Based on new or newly interpreted Israeli, British and Arab documents, this book attempts to integrate present controversies concerning the developmen...
