The bride and the dowry: Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians in the aftermath of the june 1967 war

Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its history had something concrete to offer its Arab neighbours:it could trade land for peace. Yet the political deadlock persisted after theguns fell silent. This book sets to find out why. Avi Raz places Israel's conduct under an uncompromising lens. He meticulously examines the critical two years following the June War and substantially revises our understanding of howand why Israeli-Arab secret contacts came to naught. Mining newly declassified records in Israeli, American, British and UN archives, as well as private papers of individual participants, Raz dispels the myth of overall Arab intransigence and arrives at new and unexpected conclusions. In short, he concludes that Israel's postwar diplomacy was deliberately ineffective because its leaderspreferred land over peace with its neighbours. The book throws a great deal of light not only on the post-1967 period but also on the problems and pitfallsof peacemaking in the Middle East today.

• ISBN: 978-0-300-17194-5
• Editorial: Yale University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 31/07/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés