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About this book
The Dark Side of Zionism: Israel's Quest for Security through Dominance arises out of the scholarship of the "new historians," a group of mostly Israeli scholars who have uncovered a history widely ignored in the popular media. Baylis Thomas argues that both the early Zionists and, later, the Israelis sought their security through the military domination of the indigenous Arab population of Palestine. This strategy required both avoiding negotiations with the Palestinian-Arabs and provoking the weak Arab states-opposed to the Israeli takeover of Palestine-into entering wars they would lose. The role of British imperial power was crucial in this early history, as was the later U.S. support of Israel, right or wrong. Thomas explores the larger context of this history in chapters on colonization, hegemony, weapons diplomacy, terrorism, nationalism, religion, Zionism, and prospects for resolution of the conflict.
While students and scholars of Middle Eastern studies and international relations will find this book valuable, it is intended for the intelligent general reader who is curious about current events yet puzzled about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israel's national identity, founded on the memory of being victims of the Holocaust, focuses on current events that seem consistent with the past, even as the nation uses force to thwart Palestinian national aspirations. The Dark Side of Zionism argues that peace for both Israelis and Palestinians can only come if Israel relinquishes military rule.
While students and scholars of Middle Eastern studies and international relations will find this book valuable, it is intended for the intelligent general reader who is curious about current events yet puzzled about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israel's national identity, founded on the memory of being victims of the Holocaust, focuses on current events that seem consistent with the past, even as the nation uses force to thwart Palestinian national aspirations. The Dark Side of Zionism argues that peace for both Israelis and Palestinians can only come if Israel relinquishes military rule.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: THE COLONIZATION OF PALESTINE (1880–1948)
- Chapter 01. Concepts of Colonization
- Chapter 02. History of the Colonization and Palestinian Dispossession (1880–1948)
- Part II: DOMINATION OF ARAB STATES (1949–1974)
- Chapter 03. Hegemony in the Middle East
- Chapter 04. History of the Arab-Israeli Wars (1949–1974)
- Part III: SEARCH FOR GLOBAL INFLUENCE
- Chapter 05. Weapons Diplomacy, the Political Use of Arms
- Chapter 06. History of Israel’s Global Weapons Sales
- Part IV: COLONIZATION AFTER 1967: GREATER ISRAEL AND THE ILLUSORY PEACE PROCESS
- Chapter 07. Begin, Peres, Shamir, and the Madrid Conference
- Chapter 08. Rabin and the Oslo Accords
- Chapter 09. Peres and Netanyahu and Wye River
- Barak and Arafat at Camp David
- Chapter 11. Ariel Sharon: Force over Peace
- Chapter 12. Olmert and the 2006 Lebanon War
- Part V: PROSPECTS
- Chapter 13. One-state, Two-states, or Continued Apartheid?
- Part VI: OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
- Chapter 14. Terrorism
- Chapter 15. The Paradox of Nationalism
- Chapter 16. Religion and Possession in Ancient Palestine
- Appendix A: Water Wars
- Appendix B: Evolution of Zionism
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author