Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Balfour declaration
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colonisation colonization
commentary
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ethnic cleansing
guerrilla warfare
Israel
Mandatory
maps
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occupation
occupied
Palestine
partition
short pocket guide summary
strategy
tactic
two-state
victory
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- ISBN 9781841763729
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 168 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2002
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Palestine War has been by far the most important military encounter in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
This book examines the origins of the war and its progression through two distinct stages: the guerrilla warfare between the Arab and Jewish communities of Mandatory Palestine, and the conventional inter-state war between the State of Israel and the invading Arab armies. In doing so it assesses the participants, their war aims, strategies and combat performance.
Finally, it examines the reasons for Israel's success in the face of seemingly impossible odds and for the failure of the Arab nations to turn their military and numerical superiority into victory on the ground.
Efraim Karsh is Professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and Professor Emeritus of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London. A former director of the Middle East Forum, he is editor of Middle East Quarterly and Israel Affairs.
