Index

1967 (Segev), 71, 161n3

Abbas, Mahmoud (Abu Mazen), 116–17, 119

Abdel-Shafi, Haidar, 98

Abu Dis, 99, 102

Acre, 6, 9, 37, 62

Adams, John, 13

al-Husayni, Hajj Amin, 47

al-Husseini, Faysal, 98

al-Mujama al-Islamiya (Islamic Society), 115–16

al-Qassam, Izz ad-Din, 46–7, 48

al-Rantisi, Abul Aziz, 121, 124

Alexander, Michael Solomon, 16

Ali, Mohamet (Muhammad), 15

Aliyahs, First and Second, 18

Alon, Yigal, 34, 35, 70, 78, 123

Alterman, Natan, 87

Altnueland (Herzl), 30

American Council of Judaism (ACJ), 26

Americans, see United States

Amnesty International, 94–5

Apartheid (South Africa), 42, 146

Arab Higher Committee, 46, 58, 100

Arab League, 58, 100

Arafat, Yasser, 97, 98–9, 106–7, 109, 112, 116–17

Area A, 125

Area C, 106, 142

Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Gilbert), 39

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 23, 44

Balfour Declaration, 13, 19–20, 53

Barak, Ehud, 99, 102, 107

Bavli, Dan, 79

Begin, Menachem, 78

Beilin, Yossi, 102, 129

Beirut, 9

Ben-Gurion, David, 33, 34, 37, 40, 43–4, 51–2, 53, 55, 61–2, 69, 70–1, 72–3

Ben-Gurion airport, 127, 136

Benvenisiti, Meron, 105

Berlin to Jerusalem (Scholem), 25

The Bible and Colonialism (Prior), 35

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Morris), 53

Blair, Tony, 120, 123

Blyth, George Francis Popham, 16

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 12

Boomerang (Shelah and Drucker), 108

Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, 95–6, 129, 144

Brightman, Thomas, 11

Britain, 8, 12, 13–14, 18–20, 28, 44–5, 53–4, 58

B’Tselem, 95, 130–1

Buber, Martin, 37

Bundists, 27–8

Bush, George H. W., 98

Bush, George W., 109, 122, 127–9

Camp David Summit (2000), 99, 102, 105, 106–8

Carmel Mountain, 5, 17, 86

Carter Peace Center, 134

Chabon, Michael, 117

Chateaubriand, François-René, 12

Chomsky, Noam, 79, 130, 166n2

Christian Zionism, 15, 17, 31, 128

Church of England, 16, 25

Clinton, Bill, 97, 99

Cohen, Amnon, 5

Cohen, Avner, 115

Corbyn, Jeremy, 142

Crusaders, 3, 19, 39

Damascus, 4, 45, 124

Dayan, Moshe, 70, 79, 123

Dinur, Ben-Zion, 39

Dzikover, Rabbi of, 29

Eban, Abba, 75, 108, 162n13

Egypt, 15, 30, 57, 58, 70–3, 75–6, 88, 100, 137

Eilat, 71, 75

England, see Britain

Eretz Israel, 9, 26, 37, 92, 119

Expulsion of the Palestinians (Masalha), 50

Fafo, 98

Fatah movement, 74, 101, 112–13, 119–21

Filastin (newspaper), 8

Finkelstein, Israel, 21

Finkelstein, Norman, 77, 162n13

Finn, James, 16, 19

France, 8, 44, 72

Free Officers, 70

Gabai, Ronni, 55–6

Galilee, 5, 90

Gandhi, Mahatma, 37–8

Gaza Strip, xii, 20, 29, 35–6, 64, 72, 75–81, 91–3, 105–6, 111–37, 147

Germany, 17–18, 24–6, 47, 147

Golan Heights, 71–2, 74, 76

Great Arab Revolt, 93

Gulf War (1991), 98

Gush Emunim, 29, 36, 80, 92, 125

Gush Qatif block, 124

Haaretz (newspaper), 54, 124, 126

Haifa, 17, 62, 86

Hamas, 46, 111–17, 119–21, 124–26, 134–36

Hammarskjöld, Dag, 73, 75

Haniyeh, Ismail, 120

Haram al-Sharif, 94, 108

Harbingers of Zionism, 24

Hartley, David, 13

Hashemite dynasty, 59, 70

Hebron, 34, 35, 46, 94

Herzl, Theodor, 18, 24, 26–8, 30, 31

Hezbollah, 108, 126

The History of Zionism (Lacquer), 27

Holocaust, 28, 37, 39, 58, 147

Hussein bin Talal, King, 57, 76

The Idea of Israel (Pappe), 114

Intifada, 66

First, 111

Second, 98, 106–10, 112, 114, 117

The Invention of the Jewish People (Sand), 11, 21

The Invention of the Land of Israel (Sand), 21

Iran, 115, 119

The Iron Wall (Shlaim), 57

Islamic Jihad, 114, 132

Islamic State, 146

Israel Defense Force (IDF), 74, 86, 94, 108, 124, 132–3, 136

Istanbul, 7, 8, 9

Jaffa, 16, 37, 62, 118

Jeffries, J. M. N., 20

Jenin, 124

Jerusalem, 5, 9, 15–17, 18, 57, 65, 75–6, 77, 93, 98–9, 141–2

Greater, 64, 79, 131

Jewish National Fund (JNF), 34, 46, 66, 90

Jordan, 59–60, 63, 69–70, 75–8, 97, 100, 132

River, 69, 72, 74

Judea, 13, 14, 26

Kadima, 80, 131

Kafr Qasim Massacre, 66, 86

Katznelson, Berl, 50–2

Khalidi, Rashid, 7–8

Khazar Empire, x, 20

King-Crane Commission, 45

Knesset, 87, 121, 128

Koestler, Arthur, 20

Labor Party (Israel), 34, 97, 102, 126, 129

Lacquer, Walter, 27

Lausanne Conference (1949), 103

League of Nations, 45, 59

Lebanon, 68, 70, 74, 108, 133

Ligne, Charles-Joseph of

Likud Party, 34, 80, 97, 102, 124

Lindsay, John, 12

The Lords of the Land (Zertal and Eldar), 80

Lovers of Zion, 24, 30

Madrid Conference (1991), 98

MAFDAL (Religious National Party), 36

Majdal, 118

Maoz, Moshe, 55

Mapam, 78, 87

Masalha, Nur, 50, 62

Mavi Marmara, 137

Mediterranean Sea, 69

Meretz, 126, 129

MI6, 120

Middle East Quartet (Madrid Quartet), 123, 125

Mitchell, Robert, 109

Morris, Benny, 53, 55, 122

Muslih, Muhammad, 7

Muslim Brotherhood, 111

Nablus, 9, 51

Nakbah (1948), 47, 65–6, 143

Nasser, Gamal Abdul, 51, 71–5, 88

Nazareth, 90

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 99, 102, 105, 117, 119, 142

Oldenburg, Henry, 12

Olmert, Ehud, 80, 125, 131

Oslo II (Taba) Agreement, 101

Oslo Accord, 65, 97–110

Ottoman Empire, 4–9, 14–15, 27, 44–5

Palestine

Mandatory, 17, 33, 39–40, 46–7, 56–60, 62, 73, 93

Roman, x, 3, 21, 39

Palestine Communist Party (PCP), 61

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), xi, 97–9, 112, 115

Palestine: The Reality (Jeffries), 20

Palestinian Authority (PA), 105, 112, 117, 119, 120, 122, 124–5, 132

Palmerston, Lord, 13–15

Peel Commission, 40, 100

Plan Dalet (Plan D), 54, 61, 62

Presidential Guard, 120

Protestants, xi, 11, 20

Qiryat Arba, 35

Rabin, Yitzhak, 36, 66, 74, 97, 102, 115

Rafah, 120

Ramallah, 120

Ramleh, 37, 63

Reformists, 25–6

Religious Zionism, 29

Road Map to peace, 122, 123, 127, 131

Russia, 19, 27

Pogroms in, 18, 24

Sadaka, 135

Sa’di, Ahmad, 62

Sand, Shlomo, 11, 21

Sanjak, 9

Sarid, Yossi, 128

Scholch, Alexander, 17

Scholem, Gershom, 25

Segev, Tom, 71

Shalit, Gilad, 133

Shafir, Gershon, 34, 43

Shaftesbury, Lord, 13–15

Sharon, Ariel, 68, 80, 108, 109, 123–9, 131

Sharett, Moshe, 52, 72

Shefamr, 6

Shiloah Institute, 55

Shlaim, Avi, 57, 72

Sinai Peninsula, 20, 57, 71, 73, 75, 79, 123

Six-Day War (1967 war), 64, 68–81, 103

Soviet Union, 61, 70, 74

Steinitz, Yuval, 121–2

Sykes-Picot Agreement, 8

Syria, 8, 45, 51, 52–3, 71–6, 136

Tel Aviv, 76, 136

Temple Mount, see Haram al-Sharif

Templers (German Temple Pietist movement), 17–18

The Thirteenth Tribe (Koestler), 20

Thompson, Thomas, 21

Tiberias, 6

The Times (London newspaper), 15

To Know the Hamas (Eldar), 116

Tul-Karim, 132

Turkey, 7

United Nations, 46, 54, 56, 68, 60, 73, 75, 103–4, 134, 136

Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), 58, 59, 100

Security Council, 77, 142

United States, 7, 13, 19, 25–6, 42, 54, 60, 70, 76, 95, 98, 100, 102, 105–7, 121–2, 126–8, 134

Ussishkin, Manachem, 52, 53

Verte, Mayer, 19

Via Maris, 118

West Bank, vii, xi, 29, 57, 60, 64, 65, 69, 70–1, 75–8, 92, 94–5, 106, 107, 108, 123–8, 131–2, 141–4

Whitelam, Keith, 21

Wolfe, Patrick, 42

World War I, 7, 28, 59

World War II, 47, 53, 95, 148

World Zionist movement, 31

Yassin, Sheikh Ahmed, 115–16, 124

Yiftachel, Oren, 96