Israel Since the Six-Day War: Tears of Joy, Tears of Sorrow

458 Pages·2014·2.069 MB·English

by  Leslie Stein

israel since the six-day war
Also by Leslie Stein
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ISRAEL SINCE THE
SIX-DAY WAR
TEARS OF JOY, TEARS OF SORROW
leslie stein
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To Clara with love

Contents
Illustrations viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
1 The Early Aftermath of the Six-Day War 30
2 The War of Attrition and the Prelude to the Yom Kippur War 59
3 The Yom Kippur War 93
4 Major Events over the years 1974–1979 130
5 The Decade of the 1980s 169
6 The Fateful 1990s 209
7 The al-Aqsa Intifada 248
8 Beyond the al-Aqsa Intifada 279
9 Social and Economic Developments 316
Conclusion 356
Appendix: General Election Results 365
Glossary 371
Notes 374
References and Bibliography 418
Index 429
Illustrations
1 Briefing of soldiers in a Bar Lev Line bunker 63
2 Israeli soldiers crossing the Suez Canal 116
3 Left to right: Sadat, Carter and Begin at the Israel–Egypt
Peace Treaty signing ceremony 152
4 Intifada protesters in Ramallah, March 1988 206
5 Left to right: Rabin, Clinton and Arafat at the Oslo Accords
signing ceremony at the White House 218
6 Aziz Salha jubilantly raising his blood-soaked hands after
taking part in the killing of two Israeli reservists 259
7 Israeli police and rescue workers gathering bodies in the
wake of a Palestinian suicide bombing 265
8 Ethiopian Jews on flight to Israel 328
9 A Haredi father with two of his children 343
10 Standing in silence in tribute to those fallen in defence of
Israel 359