Title Dear Palestine : a social history of the 1948 War / Shay Hazkani

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : illustrations Series Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures. Contents Introduction : muscular Jews and Arabs -- Pan-Arab and Pan-Judaic mobilization -- Toe the line -- Welcome to Palestine -- What brings you here? -- The violence of victory and the violence of defeat -- Different kinds of return -- Conclusion : the view from the ground Summary "This book recasts the 1948 war in Palestine through a socio-cultural history of the conflict's ordinary actors and its transnational reverberations. It draws on untapped personal letters of Jews and Arabs from the war, most of whom fought in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), or the Arab League's volunteer army, known as the Arab Liberation Army (ALA). The examination of these letters challenges the war accounts of politicians and generals, whose words continue to shape histories of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These conventional accounts of the war in Palestine suggest clearly drawn battle lines, and an intractable present and future. "Dear Palestine," meanwhile, shows that the stories ordinary people told themselves about the war were far more diverse and complex than the nationalist fervor and unquestioning loyalty to the cause usually imputed to them. Still, understanding what ordinary people said to one another in private letters is impossible without also taking into account the efforts of elites to inculcate certain ideologies in them. To do so, this book also examines battle orders, pamphlets, army magazines, and radio broadcasts used to mobilize young men and women, and to educate and indoctrinate them in their respective armies. Reading indoctrination materials alongside soldiers' letters reveals important and enduring fissures in the ideological edifices of Middle East nationalisms even at the moment when, by most accounts, these conceptions of nationalism crystallized. It also shows normal, everyday people's fear, bravery, failure, arrogance, cruelty, lies, and exaggerations, which are so often excluded from history"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Arab Liberation Army (ALA) Arab nationalism Haganah Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Israeli-Palestinian conflict Palestine Palestinian refugees Zionism nakba soldiers' letters Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter, viewed on February 25, 2021) Subject Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel -- Records and correspondence Arab Liberation Army -- Records and correspondence SUBJECT Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel fast Subject Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Social aspects Jewish soldiers -- Palestine -- Correspondence Muslim soldiers -- Palestine -- Correspondence Nationalism -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine. Records Nationalism Social aspects Middle East -- Palestine Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020034449 ISBN 9781503627666 1503627667

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