| Description |
xiii, 287 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Security Council's Arms Embargo of May 1948 and its Precursors -- 2. The Warring Parties in Palestine at the End of May 1948 -- 3. The United States, the War in Palestine and the Embargo, 1947-9 -- 4. Britain's Middle Eastern Policies and Military Aid, 1948-9 -- 5. Assistance from the Soviet Bloc to the Warring Parties in Palestine -- 6. Other Arms Sources to Palestine in the 1948 War -- 7. The Value and Effect of the UN Supervision of the Embargo -- 8. Conclusion |
| Summary |
On May 29, 1948, two weeks after five regular Arab armies invaded Palestine in an attempt to erase the lately established Jewish state, the UN Security Council imposed an embargo, which banned the supply of arms, war materials, and other forms of military aid to the parties directly involved in the Palestine conflict. During the embargo the Arab-Israeli war was fought and decided, and the concluding armistice of 1949 between the rival parties marked a new era in the history of the Middle East. What, Amitzur Ilan asks, was the link between the embargo and the conclusion of the war, and how did the concluding armistice mark a new era in the history of the Middle East? Employing a large number of Israeli, British, American, and Czech documents, Ilan concludes that a study of the relative strengths of the two sides at different junctures in the war must be determined not by the number of arms possessed but also by the actual utility of those arms |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index |
| Subject |
Arms race -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century.
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Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Diplomatic history.
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| LC no. |
95002923 |
| ISBN |
0814737587 |
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