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COVER
ALSO BY TOM SEGEV
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY
PART I: THE ROAD TO POWER
1. THE VOW
“WE’D SWIM AND SPEAK HEBREW”
“IN EVERY SENSE AN ADULT”
“A TALL, HANDSOME MAN”
“I THOUGHT I HAD ASCENDED TO HEAVEN”
“A GREAT PASSION FOR A FREE AND NATURAL LIFE”
2. SCROLL OF FIRE
“I WILL BE AN EXCELLENT PHILOSOPHER”
“WHAT SHOULD I DO?”
“COLD DESPAIR, AS AWFUL AS DEATH”
“WE’D GO AROUND WITH PISTOLS”
“THE SOLE, LAST RECOURSE”
3. BIRDS
“AND I THOUGHT I WAS DREAMING”
“A GREAT MIRACLE”
“WAVES OF JOY”
“MY PROPOSAL IS NOT A FANTASY”
“I NOW LIVE ALONE”
4. FOREIGN LABOR
“A NORMAL PERSON”
“A DEEP ABYSS”
“THE MOST OBSCENE ARABIC WORDS”
“ALL MY FREE TIME”
“IF WE MARRY, THERE WILL BE CHILDREN”
5. SEJERA
“ZERO HOUR”
“THE CIRCASSIAN WAS GONE”
“WE KNEW THAT ONE OF US WOULD PAY WITH HIS LIFE”
“WHY DIDN’T YOU WANT ME?”
6. DEPORTATION
“A NIGHTMARISH HALLUCINATION”
“MENTAL ADVANTAGE”
“PURIFYING THE FILTH”
“THE SHADOW OF WAR”
“I TRIED AND I MADE IT”
“I’D PUT THE COUNTRY UNDER LOCK AND KEY”
7. NEW WORLD
“IT’S A BIT RIDICULOUS”
“HAD I BEEN A NEGRO”
“IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE DEED”
“A GREAT MARVEL”
“I WAS ALMOST BESIDE MYSELF”
“MUCH JEWISH BLOOD”
“I SEEK YOUR LIPS”
“THE REDEMPTION OF THE LAND IS COMPLETE”
8. AUTHORITY
“I WON”
“EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE”
“THERE IS NO SOLUTION”
“WE ARE DEALING WITH A NATIONAL MOVEMENT”
“TO SPILL BLOOD AS WELL”
“MY CRIME AGAINST YOU IS SO GREAT”
“IS THERE A HISTADRUT OR NOT?”
“A MAN OF IRON WILL”
9. SCANDALS
“THE HISTADRUT’S GREAT ERA IS BEGINNING”
“I RAN OVER TO BINYAMINI”
“BETRAYAL AND DECEPTION”
“BIRDS FLY UNDER US”
“VENOMOUS TALEBEARING”
“MY HEART BLEEDS”
“EVERLASTING COLD, DEVASTATION, OBLIVION”
“LIKE A DEAD MAN ROLLING DOWN A HILL”
“THE BASEST LIBELS”
10. UNIFICATION
“THE CATASTROPHE IS FAR GREATER THAN I THOUGHT”
“IN POLITICAL TERMS IT IS A NATIONAL MOVEMENT”
“COMMANDERS’ REVOLT”
“FEAR, O BRITISH EMPIRE!”
“GRATUITOUS FOOLISHNESS”
“VLADIMIR HITLER”
“WE WILL HOLD BACK ON OUR PAIN”
“HOW I WOULD LIKE TO”
11. CONVERSATIONS
“TEARS AND HELPLESSNESS”
“MESSIANIC ERA”
“THE CHILDREN WILL BE BORN IN THIS COUNTRY”
“THE IRON WALL”
“WHAT’S ALL THE EXCITEMENT ABOUT?”
“THERE’S NO ADDRESS”
“AS IF MY NERVES HAD GONE TO PIECES”
“COMPULSORY TRANSFER”
“I MADE A LIST OF ARAB VILLAGES”
“HOW TO FOUND A NEW COUNTRY”
12. WINDS OF WAR
“WE NEED A FOREIGN, EXTERNAL REGIME”
“I AM BRINGING MY PUBLIC LIFE TO AN END”
“I WOULD CHOOSE THE SECOND”
“WE DO NOT WANT TO BE THAT SORT OF JEW”
“LIKE A MEMBER OF HITLER’S GANG”
“A JEWISH GHETTO HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED IN PALESTINE”
“HOW BLESSED IS THIS NATION”
“I WAS IN DESPAIR”
13. ZIONIST ALERTNESS
“WHAT HAVE WE COME TO?”
“AS IF THE WORLD HAD RETURNED TO ITS PATH”
“JEWISH COMPLEX”
“IS THAT NOT TRUE, DEAR LOVE?”
“I WILL NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN”
“YOU’RE A TRAITOR!”
“I WAS TERRIFIED”
14. HOLOCAUST AND SCHISM
“HORRORS AND TORMENTS”
“THEY DID NOT WANT TO LISTEN TO US”
“NOT MY DIRECT RESPONSIBILITY”
“A THOUSAND SHIPS”
“LIKE HELL”
“LIKE LOATHSOME CARRION, LIKE A TRAMPLED CORPSE”
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO US?”
“WHERE WILL WE GET PEOPLE FOR PALESTINE?”
PART II: THE LIMITS OF POWER
15. MAPS
“IF WE HAD THE NECESSARY ARMS”
“A HUGE FACTOR IN OUR POLITICAL STRUGGLE”
“I DID NOT HAVE THE COURAGE”
“THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF JEWS”
“PLEASE STAY WHERE YOU ARE”
“A GENERAL HUMAN PHENOMENON”
“I HAVE A PLAN”
“LOVE AND LOYAL ESTEEM”
16. PARTITION
“CAN WE SURVIVE?”
“CHOOSE BEVIN AND BEGIN”
“A NEW HISTORY”
“OFFENSIVE DEFENSE”
“IN THE MOST COLLEGIAL WAY”
“DEAD CITY”
“I RECEIVED TIDINGS”
17. WAR
“BLESSED IS THE NATION”
“THE HOLY CANNON”
“IT’S IN YOUR HANDS”
“THEY SHOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO TRANSJORDAN”
“GENERATIONS OF WEEPING”
“WE’LL ACCEPT THE CURRENT SITUATION”
“HUGE ZIONIST ASSET”
“YOU MADE WAR-YOU LOST!”
“OUR SECRET WEAPON”
18. NEW ISRAELIS
“LIKE WAR”
“TWO NATIONS”
“I AM ASHAMED”
“A MINIMUM FOR ALL”
“FOR US IT IS BARBARIC”
“WERE I RELIGIOUS”
“TIME MUST BE FOUND!”
“I WANT TO GET TOGETHER WITH YOU”
19. ANXIETIES
“I NO LONGER HAVE THE STRENGTH TO WORK”
“WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO OUR GRANDCHILDREN”
“GREAT MENTAL DISTRESS”
“THERE HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH A MIRACLE”
“I CAN’T GO ON”
“EVERY WORD IS TRUE!”
“MY WHOLE BODY TREMBLES”
20. THE NASTY BUSINESS
“I HAVE BECOME A BROTHER TO JACKALS”
“THE DEVOTION OF YOUR YOUTH”
“WHO WILL BE THE DICTATOR?”
“I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE KASTNER AFFAIR”
“INCOMPARABLE IDIOCY”
“IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT YOUR DESTINY LED YOU TO AMERICA”
“HEIGHT OF HEROISM”
21. THE SECOND ROUND
“THE THIRD ISRAELI KINGDOM”
“ALL LIT UP”
“AS IF I HAVE NO BRAIN”
“WITHOUT END”
“WE WILL NEVER START A WAR”
“IT’S A BEAUTIFUL OBJECT”
“IS THAT GOOD OR BAD?”
“AN ENGLISH PLOT TO GET US IN TROUBLE WITH NASSER”
“WHAT IF NASSER DOESN’T FALL?”
22. YES TO THE OLD MAN
“THE GREATEST POLITICAL MARVEL”
“SIDE BY SIDE, IN ETERNAL REPOSE”
“THIS JOURNALIST SHOULD BE IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL”
“AN ARAB IS FIRST AND FOREMOST AN ARAB”
“I NEVER THOUGHT HE WOULD BE SUCH AN IDIOT”
“HOW TO DRAW SHOES”
“INCREDIBLE AND ENORMOUS POWER”
“A CONSTANT NIGHTMARE”
“MAN OR WOMAN”
23. THE LAVON AFFAIR
“I DON’T TRUST MYSELF”
“IN A PRIMITIVE COMMUNITY IT CAN HAPPEN”
“I SEE THAT THE AFFAIR IS ONLY BEGINNING”
“THE CRIMINAL ACT OF A MADMAN”
“INTERESTING AND SAD THINGS”
“ONLY FELDENKRAIS CAN HELP ME”
“IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN TO A MAN LIKE THAT”
24. TWILIGHT
“WE LIVE IN THE AGE OF THE ATOM”
“IT MAY NOT HAPPEN IN MY LIFETIME”
“‘A MAN IS NOT ALWAYS RATIONAL’”
“I CANNOT DO OTHERWISE”
“NASSER WON’T DO ANYTHING”
“DEMOLISH THE WALL”
“MY PAULA ADMIRED YOU”
25. ANOTHER KIND OF JEW
“A HORRIBLE THING HAS HAPPENED”
“ENHANCE THE STOCK”
“I BELIEVE IN GOD”
“SINGING ‘HATIKVAH’ IN CLEVELAND”
“COMING HOME”
“DEATH INTERESTS ME”
PLATE SECTION
NOTES
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY
PART I: THE ROAD TO POWER
1. THE VOW
2. SCROLL OF FIRE
3. BIRDS
4. FOREIGN LABOR
5. SEJERA
6. DEPORTATION
7. NEW WORLD
8. AUTHORITY
9. SCANDALS
10. UNIFICATION
11. CONVERSATIONS
12. WINDS OF WAR
13. ZIONIST ALERTNESS
14. HOLOCAUST AND SCHISM
PART II: THE LIMITS OF POWER
15. MAPS
16. PARTITION
17. WAR
18. NEW ISRAELIS
19. ANXIETIES
20. THE NASTY BUSINESS
21. THE SECOND ROUND
22. YES TO THE OLD MAN
23. THE LAVON AFFAIR
24. TWILIGHT
25. ANOTHER KIND OF JEW
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
AN INVITATION FROM THE PUBLISHER
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