TY - BOOK ID - 5214203 TI - Israel's border wars, 1949-1956 : Arab infiltration, Israeli retaliation, and the countdown to the Suez War PY - 1993 SN - 0198278500 9780198278504 0198292627 9780198292623 0585259496 9780585259499 PB - Oxford: Clarendon, DB - UniCat KW - Israel-Arab border conflicts, 1949 KW - -Jewish-Arab relations KW - Sinai Campaign, 1956 KW - Conflits frontaliers israélo-arabes, 1949 KW - -Relations judéo-arabes KW - Sinaï, Campagne du, 1956 KW - Causes. KW - Causes KW - Israel-Arab Border Conflicts, 1949 KW - -Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Conflits frontaliers israélo-arabes, 1949 KW - -Relations judéo-arabes KW - Sinaï, Campagne du, 1956 KW - Israel-Arab War, 1956 KW - Jewish-Arab relations KW - Arab-Israel Border Conflicts, 1949 KW - -Israeli-Arab Border Conflicts, 1949 KW - Israel-Arab Border Conflicts KW - Sinai Campaign KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - Polemology KW - anno 1940-1949 KW - anno 1950-1959 KW - Jordan KW - Israel KW - Palestine KW - Lebanon KW - Syria KW - Egypt KW - -Arab-Israeli conflict - 1948-1967 KW - Sinai Campaign, 1956 - Causes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5214203 AB - This pioneering book looks at the development of Israeli-Arab relations during the formative years 1949 to 1956, focusing on Arab infiltration into Israel and Israeli retaliation. Palestinian refugee raiding and cross-border attacks by Egyptian-controlled irregulars and commandos were a core phenomenon during this period and one of the chief causes of Israel's invasion of Sinai and the Gaza strip, the Israeli part of the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. Benny Morris probes the types of Arab infiltration and the attitude of Arab governments towards the phenomenon and traces the evolution of Israel's defensive and offensive responses. He analyses Israeli decision-making processes, including the emergence and ultimate failure of Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett's dissident policy of moderation, and describes in detail the history of the Arab infiltration, including the terrorist-guerrilla raids by state-organized Fedayeen in 1955-6, and of the IDF raids against Sharafat, Beit Jala, Qibya, Gaza, the Syrian Sea of Galilee positions, and the Sabha. This was a precedent-setting period in the making of Israeli defence policy, and this pattern of raiding and counter-raiding served to define Israeli-Arab relations during the subsequent three to four decades. In this study Dr Morris deepens our understanding of the evolution of the Israeli-Arab conflict and of the crossroads at which a possible peace settlement was missed. ER -