About this title: This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. This is a riveting account of the military engagements and it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2008-04-21
ISBN-13:9780300126969ISBN:0300126964
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780300126969ISBN:0300126964
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-04-28
ISBN-13:9780300151121ISBN:0300151128
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008-04-21
ISBN-13:9780300126969ISBN:0300126964
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780300126969ISBN:0300126964
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780300126969ISBN:0300126964
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Yale University Press, 2008. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780300126969ISBN:0300126964
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Club Edition A history of the first Arab-Israeli war. Dust jacket has small creases along spine top edge, shelfwear, and minor edge rubs. Boards have crease along spine edges; otherwise clean. pages are clean and binding is tight. A faint smell of smoke. read more
"Benny Morris provides a decent strategic look at the first Arab-Israeli war. Very few details of battles. The final chapter regarding conclusions and what may happen in the future was interesting."
"This was an excellent read, although sometimes heavier in quantitative military details than I would have personally liked. This is not a shortcoming of the book, but rather a lack of knowledge and interest on the part of the reader, as I was most interested in the political aspects of the 1948 war, as opposed to detailed information about every individual skirmish.
One of my favorite chapters of this book was the final conclusions chapter, where Morris urges Arabs and Palestinians to do the necessary soul searching to try to understand why their history took such a course. As an Arab, and an American Palestinian, I believe that this is critical. I grew up hearing and continue to hear people blame everyone but themselves for the negative turn of events. But the real questions to me are why did passions prevail over levelheadedness among Arab leaders? Why did Arab leaders, with the exception of King Abdullah, not have a realistic assessment of their military capabilities? Why did Palestinian society collapse in such a dramatic way, where disunity prevailed in such a way as to allow the IDF to pick off one Palestinian Village at a time, without other Villages rallying in their support? The national humiliation faced by the Arab armies during the 1948 war made all future conflicts inevitable.
It's always interesting to wonder what would have happened had the 1947 UN partition plan been implemented in an orderly fashion. Many would argue that regardless of whether it had, the conflict between the two nationalist movements was inevitable. The future however, remains to be seen."
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