TY - BOOK ID - 17576568 TI - 1948 : a history of the first Arab-Israeli war PY - 2008 SN - 9780300151121 9780300126969 0300151128 0300126964 9781282089495 1282089498 9786612352089 0300145241 1282352083 9786612089497 9780300145243 9781282352087 6612352086 6612089490 PB - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. KW - Conflit israélo-arabe, 1948-1949 KW - Palestine KW - Israel KW - Arab countries KW - Israël KW - Etats arabes KW - History, Military KW - Historiography KW - Politics and government KW - History KW - Foreign relations KW - Histoire militaire KW - Historiographie KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Histoire KW - Relations extérieures KW - Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 KW - 355.48 <569.4> KW - 933.83 KW - 933.83 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk en Israël:--Zionisme (1948-heden) KW - Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk en Israël:--Zionisme (1948-heden) KW - 355.48 <569.4> Militaire geschiedenis. Wapenfeiten--Israël KW - Militaire geschiedenis. Wapenfeiten--Israël KW - Arab-Israel War, 1948-1949 KW - Jewish-Arab War, 1948-1949 KW - Palestine War, 1948-1949 KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Haganah (Organization) KW - Haganah KW - Irgun ha-haganah KW - Munaẓẓamat al-Hāghanāh KW - Hāghanah̄ (Organization) KW - Munaẓẓamat al-Ḥajanāh KW - Ḥajanāh (Organization) KW - Hagganah (Organization) KW - הגנה KW - הגנה (ארגון) KW - הגנה־־מילונים, מפתחות וכו׳ KW - Israel. KW - Israel-Arab War (1948-1949) KW - Izrailʹ KW - Medinat Yiśraʼel KW - Yiśraʼel KW - Izrael KW - Isrāʼīl KW - Israele KW - Isŭrael KW - I-se-lieh KW - Medinat Israel KW - State of Israel KW - ישראל KW - מדינת ישראל KW - إسرائيل KW - دولة إسرائيل KW - Dawlat Isrāʼīl KW - Ізраіль KW - Дзяржава Ізраіль KW - Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Izrailʹ KW - Stát Izrael KW - Država Izrael KW - Ισραήλ KW - Израиль KW - Государство Израиль KW - Gosudarstvo Izrailʹ KW - イスラエル KW - Isuraeru KW - 以色列 KW - Yiselie KW - Holy Land KW - ההגנה KW - Хагана (Organization) KW - Khagana (Organization) KW - ハガナー (Organization) KW - Haganā (Organization) KW - Га-Аґана (Organization) KW - Ha-Agana (Organization) KW - Polemology KW - anno 1940-1949 KW - Arab states KW - Eretz Israel KW - Middle East UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17576568 AB - This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side—where the archives are still closed—is illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials. Morris stresses the jihadi character of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. Throughout, he examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the refugee problem, which was a by-product of the disintegration of Palestinian Arab society. The book thoroughly investigates the role of the Great Powers—Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union—in shaping the conflict and its tentative termination in 1949. Morris looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the successive battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel. ER -