Middle Eastern Studies articles from October 1995

Middle Eastern Studies archives from October 1995

The end of the beginning: towards an understanding of the term 'the beginning of the state of Israel.'(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... Studies dealing with the first decade of the State of Israel are now at their zenith. During the past several years, books, dissertations and articles have appeared which deal with the crystallization of the new State's rapidly changing form, its...

Rutenberg and the Jordan River: a revolution in hydro-electricity. (engineer Pinchas Rutenberg)(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... The first practical scheme of Jordan River development is intimately connected with the name of one man: Pinchas Rutenberg. The succession of events that led to the approval of the massive hydroelectric scheme for Palestine was not his doing...

Symbolism and landscape: the Etzion bloc in the Judean mountains.(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... The monument . . . is a guide to the future; just as it confers a kind of immortality on the dead, it also determines our actions in the years to come. J.B. Jackson In the early 1940s, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) acquired...

The Jewish-Arab conflict: the first Jewish underground defence organizations and the Arabs.(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... This article deals with the attitude of `Bar-Giora' and `Ha'shomer', the first Jewish underground defence organizations in Palestine, towards the Arabs in the years 1907-20. It is based on relevant historical evidences reflecting the perception...

From split labour market strategy to political co-optation: the Palestine Labour League.(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... Jewish immigration, aimed at creating a Jewish settlement in Palestine, and eventually a Jewish National Home (JNH) began in the latter part of the nineteenth century and expanded rapidly after the establishment of the British mandate, in the...

Anglo-Israeli strategic relations, 1952-56.(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... Anglo-Israeli co-operation over Suez-Sinai in 1956 was entirely `episodic'.(1) True, in 1952 Ben-Gurion hoped that the return to power of the Conservatives might effect a change in Israel's relations with Britain.(2) In addition, the possibility...

The historical place of the Czech-Egyptian arms deal, fall 1955.(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... A virtual axiom of the literature on the Arab-Israeli conflict is that when the news was received, in late September 1955, of an arms deal on an unprecedented scale between Egypt and Czechoslovakia, key players on the Israeli side began thinking...

The American-Israeli security treaty: sequel or means to the relief of Israeli-Arab tensions, 1954-55.(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... Israel's security concept in the aftermath of the first Arab-Israeli war consisted of two basic levels. At one level the primary influence was the history of the Jewish-Arab conflict, and more particularly the events of the 1948 war. Under their...

Co-operation in the shadow of a power struggle: Israel: the Likud governments and the Histadrut 1977-84.(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... Four-and-a-half decades after Israel's establishment in 1948, the year 1977 continues to constitute a landmark insofar as relations between the government and the Histadrut, the roof organization of trade unions in Israel, are concerned. In the...

The Maronites, Lebanon and the state of Israel: early contacts.(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... One of the results of the outbreak of civil war in Lebanon in 1975 was the formation of closer ties between Israel and the Lebanese Maronite community, which eventually led to increased Israeli involvement in that country. In the course of the...

Coercive diplomacy: the 1950 Israeli attack on a Lebanese airliner.(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... We do not know what `legitimate' excuses Ben-Gurion's government will offer in justification of this barbaric attack on a plane carrying civilian passengers including women and children... The Jews are accustomed to commit such...

Israeli Arabs and the Jewish state: the activation of a community in suspended animation.(Special Issue: Israel)
October 1, 1995... From its inception, Israeli society has been deeply divided along an Arab-Jewish cleavage. Jews and Arabs differ from each other along ethnic, religious and linguistic lines, and the Jewish state was formed following a prolonged inter-communal...

Israel's Border Wars: 1949-1956.
October 1, 1995... by Benny Morris. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp.451, biographical notes, bibliography and index. In this, his third installment of a revisionist history of Israel, Benny Morris examines a tumultuous era in the Middle East, the years between...

American Consuls in the Holy Land: 1832-1914.
October 1, 1995... by Ruth Kark. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, ]994. Pp.388 (hardback). Between 1844 and 1917 there were seventeen United States consuls in Jerusalem and a pretty poor lot they were. Nineteenth-century US consuls were dismissed by contemporaries as...

The Business of Settlement: Private Enterpreneurship in the Jewish Settlement of Palestine, 1900-1914.
October 1, 1995... by Yossi Katz. Jerusalem and Ramat-Gan: Magnes Press and Bar Ilan University Press, 1994. Index, bibliography, biographical notes. For the last two decades or so, the historiography of Jewish settlement in Palestine/Israel has included quite a...