Abdullah, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia xxi
Abdullah, King of Jordan 59
Abu Zureiq 79
Adams, John Quincy 91
Afrikaner National Party 94–5
Against Silence (Wiesel) 48
Ahad Ha’am 10, 14, 95, 100, 111
Ahdut Ha’avodah 74
al-Fatah 187–8
al-Rifai, Zayd 191
Algeria 3
Al Kabri 68
Al Khalisa 84
Allon, Yigal xvii, 68, 84, 85, 143, 193, 195–6
Al Manara 79
Aloni, Shulamit xxii
Alter, Robert 116
Anderson, Robert 129
An Nahr 68
anti-Semitism xiii, xxxviii, 8, 9, 13–14, 48, 101–2, 105
apartheid in Israel xii, xvi, xxxxvii, 180–3
apartheid in South Africa 94–5, 174, 177–83
Arab
expulsion (refugee problem) 60–86
immigration (Peters’s study) 22–36
riots (1929) 10
Arab Higher Committee 57–8
Arab-Israeli war, first xv
Arab Liberation Army 59
Arab Question (Zionist consensus) 17–20
Arafat, Yasser xix, xx–xxii, xxvii, 176, 179
Armey, Dick xxxi
Armistice Agreements (1949) 39, 133
As Sindiyana 79
Ataturk, Kemal 193
Avidan, Shimon 68
Bab el-Mandab Straits 167
Balad ash Sheikh 83
Balfour Declaration xxx, 18, 22, 95, 109
Bantustan 179–80
Bantustanization 177–83
Barbour, Ambassador 163
Bar Illan, David 47
Beauvoir, Simone de 3
Begin, Menachem 56, 68, 134–5, 153, 166–7, 192
Ben-Arieh, Yehoshua 47
Ben-Gurion, David xii, xiii, xv, xxix, xxx, xxxv–xxxvi, 53–4, 62, 66, 77, 82, 84, 142–3, 188, 193
conquest myth 96, 102–3, 105, 108, 111, 112, 113, 116
Histadrut 108
partition policy 15, 86, 102–3
Zionist state 9–11, 14–15, 17, 19, 86
Ben-Zvi, Izhak 96
Benvenisti, Meron xix, 172, 177, 181, 183
Bergmann, Hugo 12
Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, The (Morris) 1, 51–87
Blöbel, Paul 118
Bloch, Marc 89
Borchgrave, Arnaud de 158
Brackmann, Albert 101
Braverman, Moshe 34
Brenner, Y. H. 111
Britain 19–20
Balfour Declaration 18, 22, 95, 109
conquest of North America 88–92
Labour Party xiv
Mandate administration 15, 18, 23–4, 26, 29, 33–6, 52, 97, 105, 108–9, 113, 157
Survey of Palestine 26, 32–3, 35
Brown, George 146
Brzezinski, Zbigniew xxvii
Buber, Martin 11
Bull, Odd 125, 127–8, 131–2, 152
Buthelezi, Chief 179–80
Camp David 160, 161, 165, 166, 171, 176
Caradon, Lord 146–7
Carr-Saunders, A.M. 23–4
Childers, Erskine 57
Churchill, Winston xiv
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 135, 142–3
Clinton, Bill xx–xxi
Clinton, Hillary xxxi
Cockburn, Alexander 45
Cohen, Aharon 74
Cohn, Norman 98
Collusion Across the Jordan (Shlaim) 62
Commandant of Auschwitz (Hoess) 117
Committee of Directorates of the National Institutions 72
Company of Critics, The (Walzer) 3
Constantinople Convention 161, 162
Cowan, Paul 22
Creveld, Martin van xxxii–xxxiii, xxxvii, 193, 194
Crossman, Richard xiv–xv
Cunningham, Alan 82
Dayan, Moshe xiii, xvii, 127, 133–4, 151–3, 159, 161, 164–5, 167–8, 171, 186–7, 188, 192, 194, 196
Deir Yassin massacre 55, 56, 64, 65–6, 68, 78
Delay, Tom xxxi
demographics (Peters’s study) 21–50
diplomacy
prior to June 1967 war 124–30
prior to October 1973 war 151–7
Dulles, John Foster 138–9
Dutch in South Africa 88, 89, 94–5
Eastern Europe, Nazis in 3, 4, 88, 89, 92–4, 100–101, 107, 116–20
Eban, Abba 47, 96–7, 153–4, 160, 164–5, 168, 169, 171, 176, 184
June 1967 war reconstructed 123–49
Resolution 242 124, 144–9, 152, 161
Egypt 34, 124, 126–9, 176, 185, 195
blockade of Straits of Tiran 137–40, 189–90
–Israeli Treaty (1979) 161, 162
Israel’s execution of POWs 197
October 1973 war xvii, 2, 150–71
troop concentrations in Sinai 134–7, 192–3
Egyptian-Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission (EIMAC) 127–8, 130
Eilabun massacre 56
Ein az Zeitun massacre 54, 64, 80
Ein Ghazal 79
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 137
11 September xxii, xxvii, xxxi, xxxviii
Elon, Benny xxxi
Epstein, Yitzak 95
Eshkol, Levi 125–6, 130, 139, 165, 188, 192, 193, 196
Evron, Boas xxxiii
Exodus and Revolution (Walzer) 3
Farrell, Bill 45
Final Solution 116–20
Fir’im 68
Fisher, Roger 138
Foote, Timothy 22
Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) xvi
From Time Immemorial (Peters) xxxii, 1, 21–50, 97–8, 197–8
Frontier in American History, The (Turner)
92
Fulbright, J.W. 139
Gahal 153
Gaza xix, xxix, xxxvii, 2, 36–40, 115, 124–5, 127–8, 142, 148, 151–2, 160, 164–6, 171, 172–6, 177–9, 181–2, 185, 189, 195–6
Nazis in Eastern Europe 3, 4, 88–9, 92–4, 100–101, 107, 116–20
Gilbert, Martin xvi
Gilmour, David and Ian 45–6
Golan Heights 15, 131–2, 133, 152, 164–5, 195
Goldberg, Arthur 22, 125, 140, 148, 151
Greenberg, Uri Zvi 111
Gur, Mordechai 170–1
Haganah 58, 61, 63–8, 71–4, 77, 79, 81–5
Haifa 54, 57–9, 61–2, 64–8, 70, 73, 83, 139
Hanita 109
Harkabi, Yehoshaphat 133, 168, 188
Harrison, W.H. 91
Hashomer Hatzair 74
havlaga policy 113
Hazan, Ya’acov 74
Hedges, Chris xxiii
Helms, Richard 135
Hill, Christopher 182
Histadrut 108
Historical Geography of the British Colonies, A 94
History of the Hagana 99
History of Zionism, A (Laqueur) 97
Hitler, Adolf xiv, 4, 92–4, 103, 106, 107 see also Nazis in Eastern Europe
Hobsbawm, E.J. xi
Höhne, Heinz 116, 117, 118, 119
holocaust xvii, xxii–xxvii
Hope Simpson Report 26, 27, 28–9, 30
Horn, Major-General Carl von 131
Hourani, Albert 45
Huj 68
Husayni 57–8
Hussein, King of Jordan 125, 148, 154–5, 156, 158–9, 191, 194
Hussein, Saddam 145
immigration (Peters’s study) 21
Area IV 36–41
illegal immigration claim 22–36
plagiarism/citation 42–5
imperialism 17–20
Inhofe, Senator James H. xxxi
intifada xix, xxii, xxvii, xxxiv, xxxvii
Intimate Ememies (Benvenisti) 172
Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL) 54, 63, 65, 67, 68–9, 82–3, 113, 114
Israel
atrocities xxiii–xxvi
Declaration of Independence 62, 95
Defense Forces 54–6, 58, 63–4, 67, 74–81, 85–6, 135, 142, 169
human shields xxxviii
preemptive attack (June 1967) 130–44
provocations xxii
Israel: A Personal History (Ben-Gurion) 96
Israël: la fin des mythes (Kapeliouk) 167
Ijzim, 79
Ja’auna 79
Jaba 79
Jabotinsky, Vladimir xiv, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16–18, 110
Jackson, Andrew 91
Jarring, Gunnar xvii, 151, 152
Jarring initiative 153–62 passim responses to 162–5
Jenin Refugee Camp xxiv, xxviii
Jewish Agency
Executive xxxv–xxxvi, 63, 103
Jewish Book Council 45
Jewish nationalism (Zionism as) 1, 7–20
Jews in their Land, The (Ben-Zvi) 96
Johnson, Lyndon B. 127, 129, 134, 135, 136, 148
Jordan 125, 148, 185–6, 191, 194
June 1967 (Six Day) war 2, 22, 123–49, 170
Just and Unjust Wars (Walzer) 2
Justice for My People (Frankenstein) 42
Kapeliouk, Amnon 153, 164, 167
Katzenbach, Nicholas de B. 135
Kelman, Moshe 55
King Abdullah: Britain and the Making of Jordan (Wilson) 59
Kissinger, Henry xvii, 163–4, 168–9, 170–1
Kohn, Hans 8
Korn, David 153
labor Zionism 7, 8, 16, 102, 106, 108 socialism of 9, 105, 110–20
Land and Power (Shapira) 1, 88–120
League of Nations xiv, 26, 33 Mandates Commission 34–5, 36
Lebensraum policy 92–4
LEHI 82
Levi, Shabtei 67
Lewis, Anthony 47
Lewis, Bernard 48
liberalism 2–3
Liberty USS, Israeli attack on 196–7
Locke, John 90
Lodge, Henry Cabot 137
Love, Kennett 124
Luxemburg, Rosa 3
Lynch, W.F. 42
Malley, Robert xxi
Mandatory Government of Palestine 15, 18, 23–4, 26, 29, 33–6, 52, 97, 105, 108–9, 113, 157
‘Manifest Destiny’ doctrine 100
Mantanzima, Chief 178–9
Mapam (United Workers Party) 74–5, 76–7, 153
Marshall, Chief Justice John 91
Mein Kampf (Hitler) 93
Meir, Golda 154, 158–9, 163, 164, 168
Morris, Benny xii, xiii, xxix–xxx, 1, 2, 51–87, 103–4, 142, 194
Mughr 68
My Country (Eban) 96–7
Nahmani, Yosef 77
Narkiss, General Uzi 168, 193, 196
Nasser, Gamal Abdel 124, 125, 127–30, 134–5, 137–40, 142–3, 154–7, 185, 188–94
National Council 63
National Press Club 164
Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (Hobsbawm) xi
National Unity government 134
nationalism
Nazis in Eastern Europe xvi, 3, 4, 88–9, 92–4, 100–101, 107, 116–20
Netanyahu, Benjamin xix–xx, xxxii–xxxiii, 49
1948 war (Palestinian refugees) 1, 51–87
Nixon, Richard xvii
Nordau, Max 14
North America (British in) 88–92
O’Brien, Conor Cruise 88
October 1973 (Yom Kippur) war 2, 150–71
Operation Ben-Ami 68
Operation Dani 85
Operation Dawn 191
Operation Defensive Shield xxiii, xxv, xxx
Operation Hiram 81
Operation Lightning 68
Operation Yiftah 68
‘Oral Torah’ 153
Orren, Elhanan 55
Oslo Accord (September 1993) (Oslo I agreement) xix, xx, xxvii
Oslo Accord (September 1995) (Oslo II agreement) 172–83
Oz, Amos 115–16
Pa’il, Meir 81
Paine, Thomas 91
Palestine
British mandate xi, 15, 18, 23–4, 26, 29, 33–6, 52, 97, 105, 108–9, 113, 157
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) xviii–xix, xxiii, 48, 125, 171, 172–3, 176, 181
Palestine Partition Commission Report (1938) 24
Palestinian Exodus from Galilee, The (Nazzal) 79–80
Palmah 54, 55, 79, 84, 113, 114
Palmon, Yehoshua 83
Parker, Richard 126–7
Parkman, Francis 92
Peel Commission 24, 26, 31, 102
Resolution 62, 69, 82, 85–6, 143, 155
Patai, Raphael 45
Peace and its Discontents (Said) 172–80
Peled, General Mattityahu 136, 193
Peters, Joan xxxii, 21–50, 97–8, 197–8
Plan D 61, 63–4, 65, 69–73, 81
Poland xiv
political Zionism 7–8, 13–14, 15–16
‘population transfer’ xiv, 15, 16, 103–4
Prai, Eliezer 74
Protocols of the Elders of Zion 98
Purchas, Reverend Samuel 90
‘purity of arms’ myth 110–20
Qatamon 84
Qatra 79
Quaddafi, Moammar al- 164
Quandt, W.B. 139, 159, 170, 171
Rabin, Yitzhak 47, 125, 133–4, 152, 154, 162, 166, 168, 171, 192, 196
racism, labor Zionism and 110–20
Reich, Walter 21
Reinharz, Jehuda 21
Reston, James 134
Revisionist Zionists 8, 18, 55, 68–9, 110, 114
Right of Return policy 13
Rogers Plan (1969) 153, 156, 160
Romantic nationalism 1, 8, 13, 99, 101
Rostow, Walt 127
Roy, Jules 4
Royal Jordanian Army 136
Rubinstein, Danny xxviii–xxix
Ruppin, Arthur 11
Russell, Bertrand xiv
Sabbarin 54
Sadat, Anwar 150–1, 157–61, 165–7, 171
Safad 68
Said, Edward 46, 87, 172–80, 183
Sassoon, Elias 82
Schiff, Ze’ev xxviii–xxix, 168, 169–70
Scholem, Gershom 20
Schumpeter, Joseph 107
Second Aliya 108
Second Treatise of Government (Locke) 90
Sela, Avraham 192
‘self-defense’ myth 88, 91, 98–110
Settlement Committee of the National Institutions 72
Seventh Day, The (oral history) 114–16, 120
Shapira, Anita xiii, 1, 88–120
Sharm-el-Shaykh 127–8, 137, 143, 152, 153–4, 159, 162–4, 167
Sharon, Ariel xx, xxii, xxv, xxvi, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxvii, 153, 185, 193
Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism (O’Brien) 88
Simon, Ernst 15
Sinai 127–8, 148, 150–3, 160, 162, 164, 166–7, 171, 189, 195
campaign (1956) 195
Egyptian troop concentration 134–7, 142, 192–3
Sisco, Joseph 156–7
Sisulu, Walter 177
Six Days of War (Oren) xvi, 184–98
Six-Day war see June 1967 war
Smilansky, Moshe 95
socialist Zionism 9, 105, 110–20
Sociology of Imperialism, The (Schumpeter) 107
Sofer, Sasson xvii
Solomon, Barbara Probst 22
effects of its implosion xix
Speer, Albert 4
Spheres of Justice (Walzer) 2
Stavis, Morton 49
Stevenson, Adlai 107
Stulz, Kenneth 180–1
Suez Canal 18, 159, 161–2, 164, 165
Sulz, Major 56
Summers, Lawrence xxxvii
Survey of Palestine (1945–6) 26, 32–3, 35
Syria 32–5, 43, 60, 125–7, 165, 171, 186–7, 194, 195
-based terrorism 130–4
Tabenkin, Yitzak 105, 112, 113
Tal, Uriel xxxviii
Tessler, Mark 159
Teveth, Shabtai 56, 81, 87, 105
Thant, U 126–9, 132–5, 138, 145, 151, 153, 156, 158, 163, 189–90
Thon, Yakov 86
Tillman, Seth P. 159
Tito, Josip Broz 154
Toland, John 92
Touval, Saadia 159
Transjordan 15, 33, 34, 59, 60
Transkei 178–81
Treason of the Intellectuals, The (Benda) 3, 88
Trotsky, Leon 2
Turner, Frederick Jackson 92
Turner, Gruppenführer 118
Tutu, Archbishop Desmond xxvii, xxxvii
Umm al Fahm 54
Umm al Faraj 68
United Arab Republic 138–9, 158–9, 160, 162–3
United Nations
archives 184
diplomacy (June 1967 war) 124–30
Emergency Force 125, 127–8, 133, 137, 189, 192
General Assembly xvi, xvii–xviii, 140, 145, 160, 163, 179
Partition Resolution (181) 61, 62, 69, 82, 85–6, 143, 155–6
Resolution 242 124, 144–9, 151–2, 155, 157, 161
resolutions 61, 62, 128, 133, 137
Security Council 44, 126, 129, 131, 134, 136, 140–1, 144, 146, 151, 155–7, 163–4
United Workers Party see Mapam
Urquhart, Brian 129
Survey of Palestine 26, 32–3, 35
Ussishkin, Menahem 100
Verwoerd, Hendrik 177
violence (‘purity of arms’ myth) 110–20
Volney, Count Constantin François 42, 43, 44
Wadi Nisnas 66
Wallace, Henry xv
War of Atonement, The (Herzog) 150
‘war of attrition’ 154
Weinreich, Max 92
Weitz, Yosef 67, 69–70, 72–4, 78, 86
Weizman, Ezer 133–4, 136, 144, 153, 167–8, 169, 193, 196
Weizmann, Chaim xxx, 10, 13, 17, 18–19
Weller, Mark xviii
West Bank xix, xx, xxi, xxix, xxxvii, 2, 36–40, 148, 151–2, 164–5, 166, 167, 171, 172–6, 177–9, 181, 185, 194–6
water disputes 173–4
White, Theodore 48
Wieseltier, Leon 48–9
‘wilderness’ myth
Peters’s study 21–50
Shapira’s view 89–98
Wilson, Mary C. 59
Wingate, Charles Orde 113
Winning of the West, The (Roosevelt) 106
Winthrop, John 90
World Population (Carr-Saunders) 23–4
Yaariv, General Aharon 133, 187, 192
Yaffe, Eliezer 112
Yamit 164
Yaniv, Avner xix
Yishuv xiv, 38, 53, 61–4, 68–70, 74, 80–3, 84, 96, 105, 108, 112, 113
Yom Kippur war see October 1973 war
Zangwill, Israel 95
Zeitlin, Hillel 95
Zerubavel, Yael xxx
Zion, Sidney 22
Zionism
background xi–xv
definition 7–12
implementation 16–20
justification 12–16
Palestine refugee problem xii, xvi, 51–87
as tragedy xii
Zionism and the Arabs (Gorny) 7–20