For reasons of national security, official public records surrounding America's involvement in the Arab-Israeli negotiations remain unavailable. This text provides an insight into the internal divisions and untold stories of the peace process. Covering an extraordinary range of first-hand accounts from over 80 bureaucrats, diplomats and military leaders who participated in Arab-Israeli peace talks from 1973 to 1978 the book charts the complex and often contradictory goals of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, the US and the USSR.

For reasons of national security, official public records surrounding America's involvement in the Arab-Israeli negotiations remain unavailable. This text provides an insight into the internal divisions and untold stories of the peace process. Covering an extraordinary range of first-hand accounts from over 80 bureaucrats, diplomats and military leaders who participated in Arab-Israeli peace talks from 1973 to 1978 the book charts the complex and often contradictory goals of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, the US and the USSR.

The control of land remains the crucial issue in the Arab-Israel conflict. Kenneth Stein investigates in detail and without polemics how and why Jews acquired land from Arabs in Palestine during the British Mandate, and he reaches conclusions that are challenging and suprising.

Stein contends that Zionists were able to purchase the core of a national territory in Palestine during this period for three reasons: they had the single-mindedness of purpose, as well as the capital, to buy the land; the Arabs, economically impoverished, politically fragmented, and socially atomized, were...