BEGENNING TO RESTORE THE LAND Chapter 5 – Battleground The land, unloved by its rulers and uncared for by most of its handful of inhabitants, whose silences La- martine had likened to those of ruined Pompeii, and which Mark Twain had compassionately consigned to the world of dreams, began to come to life again with […]

A GARLAND OF MYTHS Chapter 6 – Battleground The distortion of history, ancient and modem, basic to the Arab-British resistance to Jewish restoration, had been fully articulated by 1948. After 1948, the Arabs added greater depth and vehemence in presen- tation and with it a theme of hatred of the Jews, com- parable only to […]

The Cause of the Conflict Chapter 7 – Battleground The nature of the Arab purpose in Palestine was il- lumined, was indeed dramatized, by the clash between the terrorist organizations and the Jordanian govern- ment that began September 1970. Not an ideological confrontation nor the result of a difference of opinion on the proper fate […]

Israel’s function in the modern world Chapter 8 – Battleground State Department establishment and a usually more widely ranging, more sensitive, outlook in the White House. Hence, too, the sometimes surprising fluctuations in American foreign policy (as in the tug-of-war between President Truman and his State Department in 1948). The intrinsic merits of a pro-Arab […]

AFTER THE YOM KIPPUR WAR Battleground – Chapter 9 The writing of the original English edition of this book was concluded early in 1972. Thus it was that only in a footnote inserted in the page proofs was there mention of what turned out to be an historic turning point in the Arab war against […]

GUARANTEES OF PEACE Battleground – Chapter 10 Peace will not come as long as the powers abet Arab visions of a paradise on earth, encourage them in their hopes of destroying and inheriting Israel, and equip them with the instruments for the undertaking. The prospect of peace will appear on the horizon when the Arab […]