ИСТОРИЯ ГОСУДАРСТВА ИЗРАИЛЬ 1896-2005 Штереншис Михаил

Contents

A list of maps and illustrations 11^

Acknowledgements 12

About the book (in English) 13

Preface 14

Introduction: To love your country 16

Prologue. THE 19th CENTURY: THE EUROPEAN PRELUDE 20

o Edmond Rothschild and Theodore Herzl
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o Antisemitism
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Chapter 1. 1896-1918: THE TURKISH PRELUDE 28

o The link with the Land
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o The peoples of Palestine
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o The World War I in Palestine
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o The Jewish intelligence service
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o The Jews survived the Armenian Holocaust
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Chapter 2. 1918-1939: THE BRITISH PRELUDE 57

o Zionism finds friends in Great Britain
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o Nationalism of the Jews
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o Nationalism of the Arabs
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o Britain's efforts
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o Economic development of Palestine
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o Britain's failures
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Chapter3. 1939-1947: THE SECOND WORLD WAR

AND ITS AFTERMATH 84

o Battles around Palestine
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o The Holocaust
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o The Jewish underground in Palestine
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o The last thrill of the British Mandate
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Chapter 4. 1947-1948: THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL AND THE CIVIL WAR Ill

o The UN as a midwife
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o The Civil war
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o British evacuated
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Chapter 5. 1948-1949: THE INTERVENTION

AND THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 142

o The Arab intervention
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o The battles at the Egyptian front
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o The battle for Jerusalem
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o Golda Meir in the USSR
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o The Armistice
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Chapter 6. 1950-1955: ISRAEL AS REPUBLIC 169

o Israel looks for bread
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o Israel looks for people
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o Israel looks for security
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o Israel creates laws
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o The framework of Government
Chapter 7. 1956: THE SINAI CAMPAIGN ^ 208

o Israel searches for allies
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o Israel conquers Sinai for the first time
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o Israel loses Sinai for the first time
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Chapter 8. 1957-1966: ISRAEL AS AUTOCRATIC STATE 234

o Partocracy in Israel
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o Democracy in Israel
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o Theocracy in Israel
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o Bureaucracy in Israel
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o Israel searches for friends
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o Israel makes a Bomb
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o Israel and the USSR
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o The economic growth
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Chapter 9. 1967: THE SIX-DAY WAR - PRELUDE . 284

o Pan-Arabism
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o Israel without allies
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o The Middle East in arms
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o Diplomatic games
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Chapter 10. 1967: THE SIX-DAY WAR - BATTLES 307

o The War: Israel starts first and wins
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o The battles
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o Jerusalem united
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o Diplomatic failures
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Chapter 11. 1968-1972: ISRAEL AS EMPIRE 339

o The War of Attrition
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o Israel looks for bread-and-butter
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o Israel looks for tranquility
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o Israel and Diaspora
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o More laws
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o Settlements and politics
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o Palestinian persistent pinpricks
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Chapter 12. 1973: THE WAR OF THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT - PRELUDE... 384

o Agents and analysts
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o The state and the army
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o The Russian Aid and the American Aid
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o No diplomatic solution
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Chapter 13. 1973: THE WAR OF THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT - BATTLES 402

o The War: the Arabs start first and lose
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o The Syrian front
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o The Israeli counterattack at the Egyptian front
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o Shuttle diplomacy
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Chapter 14. 1974-1977: ISRAEL BECAME AN ADULT 426

o Israel in isolation (again)
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o The Entebbe operation
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o The development of Israeli culture
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o Begin wins the election
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Chapter 15. 1977-1982: FROM PEACE WITH EGYPT

TO THE WAR IN LEBANON 442

o Peace with Egypt
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o Israel and the USA
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o Israel fights the terrorists
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o Continuing dangers
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o Israel bombs the Iraqi reactor
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o Further economic growth
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Chapter 16. 1982-1985: THE WAR IN LEBANON 461

o Israel looks for complete solutions
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o The last conventional war of Israel
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o From Eilat to Beirut
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o The economic impact of the war
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o Financial crisis
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Chapter 17. 1986-1992: ISRAEL AT A CROSSROAD 484

o Intifada and HAMAS
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o The price of prosperity
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o The immigration resumes: the USSR broke-up
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o The Persian Gulf War: Israel does not fight?!
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o Israel looks for Palestinian leaders
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Chapter 18. 1993-2001: ISRAEL AS ANARCHY 515

o Five Premiers in nine years
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o The Oslo Accords and the American Plans
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o Israel mourns over the Prime-minister and over the dream
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o Israel: new orientation period
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o Statistics: the people and the money
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Chapter 19. 2002: THE SEVENTH WAR OF ISRAEL 565

o Casus belli
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o Terrorists' operation in Israel
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o Military operations in the West Bank
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o Negotiations
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Chapter 20. 2002-2005: LIFE BEGINS AFTER 50 576

o The second war in Iraq: Israel is aside
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o Sociologic profile of Israel
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o Crisis in economy
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o The Palestinian marathon
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o The death of Arafat
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Epilogue. Distant hopes and perspectives 599

Appendix 1. Tables 602

Appendix 2. USSR representative A.A. Gromyko's speech at the UN Assembly,

November 1947, on the partition of Palestine. Full text 609

Appendix3. Some other texts 613

Appendix 4. Selected yearly budgets of the State of Israel 634

Appendix 5. Governments of the State of Israel. 647

Chronology 662

Bibliography 668

Index 714