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Author Thomas, Baylis, 1932-

Title The dark side of Zionism : Israel's quest for security through dominance / Baylis Thomas
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages)
Contents Concepts of colonization -- History of colonization and Palestinian dispossession (1880-1948) -- Hegemony in the Middle East -- History of the Arab-Israeli wars (1949-1974) -- Weapons diplomacy, the political use of arms -- History of Israel's global weapons sales -- Begin, Peres, Shamir, and the Madrid Conference -- Rabin and the Oslo Accords -- Peres and Netanyahu and Wye River -- Barak and Arafat at Camp David -- Ariel Sharon: force over peace -- Olmert and the 2006 Lebanon war -- One-state, two-states, or continued apartheid? -- Terrorism -- The paradox of nationalism -- Religion and possession in ancient Palestine
Summary The Dark Side of Zionism: Israel's Quest for Security through Dominance arises out of the scholarship of the "new historians," a group of mostly Israeli scholars who have uncovered a history widely ignored in the popular media. Baylis Thomas argues that both the early Zionists and, later, the Israelis sought their security through the military domination of the Indigenous Arab population of Palestine. This strategy required both avoiding negotiations with the Palestinian-Arabs and provoking the weak Arab states-opposed to the Israeli takeover of Palestine-into entering wars they would lose. The
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Zionism.
Zionism -- Historiography
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Causes
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Causes
Politics and government
Zionism
Zionism -- Historiography
SUBJECT Israel -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Israel -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject Israel
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780739132982
0739132989