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Title: The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews by Benny Morris ISBN: 1860648126 Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd Pub. Date: 07 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Summary: Fine scholarly study of vital period in Israeli history
Comment: This excellent book studies the career of John Glubb Pasha, the most influential of the British 'orientalist' corps of officers and officials serving in the Middle East until 1956. He commanded the Transjordan Arab Legion from 1939 to 1956 and played an important part in setting up modern Jordan by helping King Abdullah to establish his rule. In 1948 he led the Legion to a limited victory in the first Arab-Israeli war.
Benny Morris, a leading Israeli historian, has based his book on extensive study in the archives of David Ben Gurion, the Israel Defence Forces, the Israeli State, the UN, the Haganah and St Anthony's College Middle East Centre, including the Glubb Papers, and in the Public Record Office.
Glubb retained the typical imperial contempt for both Jews and Arabs, especially for educated or urban people. But his opposition to Zionism was not based on his anti-Semitism, any more than his support for Arab aspirations was based on his anti-Arabism. He believed that opposing Zionism and supporting Jordan were policies that would strengthen Britain's hold in the Middle East. He was always a loyal servant of the British Empire, acting in what he saw as its best interests.
Morris supports the contention, made most notably by Avi Shlaim in his 1988 book, Collusion across the Jordan, that Israel and Jordan collaborated during the 1948 war. He shows how Israel and Jordan came to a secret understanding in November 1947 to partition Palestine and not to attack each other. Since the Transjordan Legion was much the best Arab force opposing Israel, the agreement showed that this war did not really threaten Israel with annihilation.
Jordanian forces invaded Palestine not to attack Israel but to annex its Arab-populated eastern regions. The Legion did not attack any area that the UN had planned for Israel. Israel broke the agreement by attacking the Legion in May, July and October 1948. The Legion took over the West Bank and East Jerusalem, saving them from Israeli conquest. King Abdullah had done what the British government wanted, strengthening Jordan at the Palestinians' expense.
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Title: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren ISBN: 0195151747 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0679642811 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 by Benny Morris ISBN: 0679744754 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 14 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Tragedy of the Middle East by Barry Rubin ISBN: 0521806232 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: 15 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes ISBN: 0393052044 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 12 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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