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Comprehensive and analytical, A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict presents a balanced and impartial overview of this centuries-old struggle. Taking a clear and chronological approach to this complex subject, and placing events in the context of their longer-term histories, Ian J. Bickerton and Carla L. Klausner examine the issues and themes that have characterized and defined the conflict over the course of its history, bringing the coverage up to date with a twenty-first-century perspective. Starting in the nineteenth century, the book moves through the British Mandate, World War II, and the proclamation of the state of Israel, the widening and deepening conflict and attempts at a peace process, the impacts of 9/11 and the Arab Spring, and finally it discusses events to the end of 2021. In a completely revised Conclusion the authors examine how we interpret many of the startling, rapidly changing, and somewhat unpredictable events of the last five years. Illustrated throughout with numerous photographs, updated maps, tables, and chronologies for each chapter, together with extensive relevant and up-to-date documentary sources, further reading, and a glossary of key terms, it is the ideal textbook for all students of the history of the modern Middle East.

Responds to critiques made by David Bar-Illan & Martin Peretz on Rubin's article (for all, 1996 [see abstracts 9713269, 9713226, & 9713263, respectively]) about the decline of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is contended that the dispute has undergone recent integral changes despite the continuation of violence & unfulfillment of the peace process as evidenced in rhetorical & philosophical shifts in the Palestinian perspective. Israel is now referred to as a separate & viable state. Compromise has become a tool in the Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO's) relationship with Israel, though the atmosphere remains volatile. The Camp David accords, PLO agreements with Israel, Iraq's defeat in Kuwait, the USSR's collapse, & other historical events have combined to alter Palestinian perception toward Israel. The 1993 Palestinian demand for a clearly defined state of its own represents the specific turning point for this historic attitude shift. D. Bajo

A review of the pattern of hostilities between the Arabs & Israelis over the last 50 years shows that the Arab side has slowly reassessed Israel, while the Israelis have reduced their demands & again taken up their earlier land-for-peace approach. As long as the conflict was viewed in existential terms -- as Israel's destruction or the Palestinian Arabs' nonexistence -- it was unsolvable. The deadlock persisted for decades, because the Arab side completely rejected compromise. Solutions proposed by the Arab states to achieve stability & progress during the period -- eg, militancy in Iraq or the expulsion of Western influence in Iran -- often made matters worse. Terrorism also damaged the Palestinian cause. After a number of defeats, & the realization that all other options had been exhausted, the Palestinian Liberation Organization strategy of destroying Israel was reappraised, but not until 1991. Israel was ready for peace, & the US then stepped in to define the conflict in a solvable way. The lesson is that zero-sum existential conflicts can be potentially resolvable if leaders differentiate between real chances & unacceptable risks in solutions. M. Pflum

The intellectual and physical setting -- Competing peoples and ideologies -- The convergence -- The Palestine mandate -- Independence and al-Nakba -- Cold wars and the Middle East matrix -- The earthquake -- The road to 1979 -- Mutual fallouts: Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli conflict -- A decade of hope -- Breakdown... -- ...and reconstruction?

The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones's series of books on armoured warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development of armoured forces in the Arab and Israeli armies from 1948 to the present day. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he tells the story of the role armour played in Arab-Israeli conflicts over the last sixty years, from the initial battles of 1948, through the Suez Crisis, the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the Israeli attack on Hamas in Gaza in 2008. In all these clashes armoured vehicles play