Abdullah, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia xxi

Abdullah, King of Jordan 59

Abu Zureiq 79

Acre 64, 67

Ad Dawayima massacre 76, 77

Adams, John Quincy 91

Afghanistan xxvii, xxxiii

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

Allon Plan xvii, 152, 173

Al Manara 79

Aloni, Shulamit xxii

Alter, Robert 116

‘Amer, ‘Abd al-Hakim 191, 192

Amit, Meir 134, 193

Amman 59, 125

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

broadcasts 56–60, 87

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

Arab Revolt (1936–9) 13, 113

Arafat, Yasser xix, xx–xxii, xxvii, 176, 179

Armey, Dick xxxi

Armistice Agreements (1949) 39, 133

Asher, Aaron 42, 45

As Sindiyana 79

Ataturk, Kemal 193

Avidan, Shimon 68

Ayalon, Ami xxxiii, xxxvii

Bab el-Mandab Straits 167

Balad ash Sheikh 83

Balfour Declaration xxx, 18, 22, 95, 109

Bantustan 179–80

Bantustanization 177–83

Barak, Ehud xix–xxi, xxv

Barbour, Ambassador 163

Bar Illan, David 47

Beauvoir, Simone de 3

Begin, Menachem 56, 68, 134–5, 153, 166–7, 192

Beit Naqquba 56, 78–9

Bellow, Saul 22, 48

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

Mapai 70, 74–5

partition policy 15, 86, 102–3

Plan D and 64, 69–73

Zionist state 9–11, 14–15, 17, 19, 86

Ben-Zvi, Izhak 96

Benda, Julien 3, 88

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

Brecher, Michael 126, 153

Brenner, Y. H. 111

Brit-Shalom 12, 15, 20, 86

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

Burns, E.L.M. 124, 144

Bush, George 143, 163, 184

Buthelezi, Chief 179–80

Camp David 160, 161, 165, 166, 171, 176

Campbell, John C. 26, 29, 46

Camus, Albert 3, 107

Caradon, Lord 146–7

Carmel, Moshe 67, 68

Carmeli Brigade 66–7, 68

Carr-Saunders, A.M. 23–4

Carter, Jimmy 171, 176

Childers, Erskine 57

Chomsky, Noam 1, 107

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

concentration camps 3, 116–20

Constantinople Convention 161, 162

Cowan, Paul 22

Creveld, Martin van xxxii–xxxiii, xxxvii, 193, 194

Crossman, Richard xiv–xv

Cunningham, Alan 82

Damascus 125, 127

Dawidowicz, Lucy 22, 44–5

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

Dupuy, Trevor N. 135, 137

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

Eilat 139, 164, 167

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

Faluja 56, 142

Farrell, Bill 45

Fest, Joachim 116, 120

Final Solution 116–20

Fir’im 68

Fisher, Roger 138

Fisk, Robert xxii, xxxviii

Flapan, Simha 59, 62, 63, 82

Foote, Timothy 22

Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) xvi

France 3, 7

Frankenstein, Ernst 42–3, 44

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

Galilee 2, 36–41, 68, 79

Galili Plan 72–3, 164

Galut 9, 20

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

Germany 103, 105

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

Gorny, Yosef xiii, 7–20

Greenberg, Uri Zvi 111

Greeks xiv, 42

Gulf of Aqaba 127, 138

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

Hammarskjold, Dag 137–8, 190

Hanita 109

Harkabi, Yehoshaphat 133, 168, 188

Harman, Avraham 141, 192

Harrison, W.H. 91

Hashomer Hatzair 74

Hass, Amira xxvii, xxviii

Hauran/Hauranis 31, 35–6

havlaga policy 113

Hazan, Ya’acov 74

Hedges, Chris xxiii

Heikal, Mohammed 143, 170

Helms, Richard 135

Herzl, Theodor 8, 13, 101

Herzog, Chaim 150, 159

Hilberg, Raul 107, 116

Hill, Christopher 182

Himmler, Heinrich 117, 118–19

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

Hoess, Rudolf 117–18, 119–20

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

Iraq xxvii, xxxiii

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

Jaffa 42–3, 61

Jarring, Gunnar xvii, 151, 152

Jarring initiative 153–62 passim responses to 162–5

Jefferson, Thomas 100, 106–7

Jenin Refugee Camp xxiv, xxviii

Jennings, Francis 89, 90, 97

Jewish Agency

Executive xxxv–xxxvi, 63, 103

Political Department 82, 83

Jewish Book Council 45

Jewish National Fund 67, 72

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

Katznelson, Berl 16, 102, 103

Kaufakha-Al Muharraqa 68, 79

Keith, A. 43, 44

Kelman, Moshe 55

Khalidi, Walid 57, 58

Khartoum 152, 154, 155

Khirbet Nasr ad Din 64, 79

Khisas 56, 79, 83, 84

King Abdullah: Britain and the Making of Jordan (Wilson) 59

Kissinger, Henry xvii, 163–4, 168–9, 170–1

Knesset 130, 139, 150, 166–7

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

Laqueur, Walter xii, 97

League of Nations xiv, 26, 33 Mandates Commission 34–5, 36

Lebanon 15, 60

Lebanon war 1, 2, 197

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

Lydda massacre 55, 62, 78, 85

Lynch, W.F. 42

McNamara, Robert 135, 193

Magnes, Judah 11, 104

Malley, Robert xxi

Mandates Commission 34–5, 36

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

Mapai 70, 74–5

Mapam (United Workers Party) 74–5, 76–7, 153

Margalit, Avishai 46, 47, 120

Marshall, Chief Justice John 91

Mein Kampf (Hitler) 93

Meir, Golda 154, 158–9, 163, 164, 168

Milstein, Uri 65, 67, 110

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

Nasir ad Din 64, 79

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

Jewish (Zionism as) 1, 7–20

Romantic 1, 8, 13, 99, 101

Nazis in Eastern Europe xvi, 3, 4, 88–9, 92–4, 100–101, 107, 116–20

Neff, Donald 124, 129

Negev desert 70, 71, 192

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

Operation Yoav 76, 81

‘Oral Torah’ 153

Oren, Michael xvi, 184–98

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

Jewish nationalism in 1, 7–20

refugee problem 1, 51–87, 194

survey (1945–6) 26, 32–3, 35

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

Palumbo, Michael 66, 72, 86

Parker, Richard 126–7

Parkman, Francis 92

partition 15, 103

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

Peretz, Martin 22, 47, 49, 98

Peters, Joan xxxii, 21–50, 97–8, 197–8

Pipes, Daniel 21, 47–8

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

Porath, Yehoshua xiii, 46, 47

Prai, Eliezer 74

Protocols of the Elders of Zion 98

Purchas, Reverend Samuel 90

‘purity of arms’ myth 110–20

Qatamon 84

Qatra 79

Qeitiya 56, 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

Radio Jordan 125, 127

Rafael, Gideon 139, 145, 157

Ramle massacre 78, 85

refugees 1, 51–87

Reich, Walter 21

Reinharz, Jehuda 21

Reston, James 134

Revisionist Zionists 8, 18, 55, 68–9, 110, 114

Riad, Mahmoud 155, 157, 160

Right of Return policy 13

Rikhye, Indar Jit 134, 139

Rogers, William 153, 162–4

Rogers Plan (1969) 153, 156, 160

Romantic nationalism 1, 8, 13, 99, 101

Roosevelt, Theodore 93, 106

Rostow, Walt 127

Roy, Jules 4

Royal Jordanian Army 136

Rubinstein, Danny xxviii–xxix

Ruppin, Arthur 11

Rusk, Dean 129, 139, 141, 148

Russell, Bertrand xiv

Sabbarin 54

Sadat, Anwar 150–1, 157–61, 165–7, 171

Safad 68

Said, Edward 46, 87, 172–80, 183

Samu 124–5, 142, 185, 188

Sanders, Ronald 22, 47–8

Sartre, Jean-Paul 3, 110

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

Segev, Tom xii, 47

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

Sharett, Moshe xii, 107

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

Shlaim, Avi 62, 142, 143

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

South Africa 88, 89, 94–5

Soviet Union 2, 188

effects of its implosion xix

Speer, Albert 4

Spheres of Justice (Walzer) 2

Stalin/Stalinism 2, 112–13

Stavis, Morton 49

Sternhell, Ze’ev xvi, 102

Stevenson, Adlai 107

Straits of Tiran 127, 129–30

blockade of 137–40, 143, 189

Stulz, Kenneth 180–1

Suez Canal 18, 159, 161–2, 164, 165

Suez war 124, 128, 137

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

Tamir, Avraham 166–7, 169

Tel Hai 103, 105–6, 108, 109

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

Tuchman, Barbara 22, 47, 48

Turks xiv, 17–18, 42

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

Charter 140–1, 145, 147, 163

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

USA 147–8, 153–4, 156

CIA 135, 142–3

Survey of Palestine 26, 32–3, 35

Ussishkin, Menahem 100

Vattel, Emmerich de 90, 93

Verwoerd, Hendrik 177

violence (‘purity of arms’ myth) 110–20

Volney, Count Constantin François 42, 43, 44

Wadi Nisnas 66

Wallace, Henry xv

Walzer, Michael 1, 2–3, 140

War of Atonement, The (Herzog) 150

‘war of attrition’ 154

Watt, Nicholas xxxviii, 207

Weinberg, Albert 91, 92

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

Whetten, Lawrence 154, 159

White, Theodore 48

Wiesel, Elie xxv, 22, 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 Court 138–9, 190

World Population (Carr-Saunders) 23–4

Ya’ari, Meir 75, 77

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

Yost, Charles 129, 139

Zangwill, Israel 95

Zeitlin, Hillel 95

Zerubavel, Yael xxx

Zion, Sidney 22

Zionism

background xi–xv

cultural 7, 9–11, 14

definition 7–12

implementation 16–20

as Jewish nationalism 1, 7–20

justification 12–16

Palestine refugee problem xii, xvi, 51–87

as tragedy xii

Zionism and the Arabs (Gorny) 7–20

Zisling, Aharon 16, 77