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"In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of Israel. Now the rump of a once flourishing community of over 150,000, dating back 2,600 years, has dwindled to single figures. For many, this tells the story of the timeless clash of the Arab and Jewish civilisations, the heroic mission of Zionism to rescue Eastern Jews from their backwards nations, and unceasing persecution as the fate and history of Jewish people. Avi Shlaim tears up this script. His mother had many Muslim friends in Baghdad, but no Zionist ones. The Iraqi Jewish community, once celebrated for its ancient heritage and rich culture, was sprayed with DDT upon arrival in Israel. As anti-Semitism gathered pace in Iraq, the Zionist underground may have inflamed it - deliberately. This memoir celebrates the disappearing heritage of Arab-Jews - caught in the crossfire of secular ideologies."

Prologue: The Zionist Foundations 1. - 1. The Emergence of Israel 1947-1949 29. - 2. Consolidation 1949-1953 56. - 3. Attempts at Accommodation 1953-1955 100. - 4. The Road to Suez 1955-1957 152. - 5. The Alliance of the Periphery 1957-1963 198. - 6. Poor Little Samson 1963-1969 232. - 7. Immobilism 1969-1974 285. - 8. Disengagement 1974-1977 330. - 9. Peace with Egypt 1977-1981 359. - 10. The Lebanese Quagmire 1981-1984 394. - 11. Political Paralysis 1984-1988 437. - 12. Stonewalling 1988-1992 476. - 13. The Breakthrough 1992-1995 519. - 14. The Setback 1995-1996 566. - 15. Back to the Iron Wall 1996-1999 585. - 16. Stalemate with Syria 1999-2000 640. - 17. Peace in Tatters 2000-2001 674. - 18. Sharon's War on Terror 2001-2003 710. - 19. The Road Map to Nowhere 2003-2006 751. - Epilogue 794

Porträtiert werden: Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Selwyn Lloyd, Lord Home, R. A. Butler, Patrick Gordon-Walker, Michael Stewart und George Brown.

More than a decade after the publication of his acclaimed The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Avi Shlaim returns to Ze'ev Jabotinsky's theory as a framework for understanding Israel's Arab policies, this time focusing on the post-1967 period. The author revisits the theory's formulation by the leader of Revisionist Zionism in 1923 and its near total convergence with the (unacknowledged) strategy followed by Labor Zionism. Examining each Israeli government since 1967, he shows that all zealously followed stage one of Jabotinsky's strategy (constructing an "iron wall" of unassailable military strength) but that the lesser known stage two (serious negotiations with the Palestinians after being compelled by stage one to abandon all hope of prevailing over Zionism) has been completely ignored except by Yitzhak Rabin. Indeed, the recent periods have witnessed a full-blown return to the iron wall at its starkest, with increasing resort to violence and unilateralism.

Résumé N'est-ce pas un paradoxe qu'Israël, « la seule démocratie du Moyen-Orient », ait fait preuve d'autant de méfiance à l'égard du printemps arabe qui balaye un à un les dictateurs de la région ? Le saut dans l'inconnu que représente le processus de démocratisation dans le monde arabe ne questionne pas uniquement les intérêts stratégiques d'Israël et de son allié et protecteur américain, mais aussi les impératifs de stabilité qui guident ses relations de voisinage ; plus largement, il met en cause le regard que les dirigeants israéliens comme l'opinion publique israélienne portent sur les peuples arabes et l'environnement culturel et politique dans lequel, à leur corps défendant, ils s'inscrivent géographiquement.