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Israeli-Jordanian Dialogue, 1948-1953: Cooperation, Conspiracy or Collusion?
Yoav Gelber
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Hardback. Taking issue with Avi Shlaim's analysis, Yoav Gelber offers his own survey of Israeli-Jordanian relations during and after the war that established the state of Israel in 1948-49. He argues that the situation was much more complex and the chain of events less orchestrated than Shlaim's collusion theory suggests. Num Pages: 357 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBJ; 1FBP; 3JJPG; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
This book is a refutation of Professor Avi Shlaim's theory of an alleged collusion between the Jews and king Abdullah (Clarendon Press, 1998). Shlaim asserts that to further his own aims of creating a greater Jordanian empire, Abdullah conducted secret diplomacy with David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and other Israeli leaders in self-serving maneuvers which hastened the partition of Palestine, and left more than a million Palestinian Arabs without a homeland. This book describes the development and vicissitudes of the relations between Israel and Jordan from the end of the British mandate and Transjordan's invasion of Palestine, through the war in ... Read more
This book is a refutation of Professor Avi Shlaim's theory of an alleged collusion between the Jews and king Abdullah (Clarendon Press, 1998). Shlaim asserts that to further his own aims of creating a greater Jordanian empire, Abdullah conducted secret diplomacy with David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and other Israeli leaders in self-serving maneuvers which hastened the partition of Palestine, and left more than a million Palestinian Arabs without a homeland. This book describes the development and vicissitudes of the relations between Israel and Jordan from the end of the British mandate and Transjordan's invasion of Palestine, through the war in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
357
Condition
New
Number of Pages
357
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845190446
SKU
V9781845190446
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About Yoav Gelber
Yoav Gelber is Professor of History at the University of Haifa and Head of the Herzl Institute for Research and Study of Zionism. He is the author of a number of books on Middle East affairs, including: Israeli-Jordanian Dialogue: Cooperation, Conspiracy, or Collusion? (Sussex Academic, 2004); and Jewish-Transjordanian Relations, 1921-1948 (Frank Cass, 1997).
Reviews for Israeli-Jordanian Dialogue, 1948-1953: Cooperation, Conspiracy or Collusion?
"Gelber strongly criticizes the so-called revisionist historians, notably Avi Shlaim, who he sees as creating a new myth of Palestinian victimization with Abdullah betraying the Arab cause by colluding with Zionists to partition Palestine between them. Instead, Gelber concludes that it was the complex working out of shared concerns yet different perspectives of perceived needs and interests. The book is ... Read more