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ASAF SINIVER
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The Yom Kippur War
Politics, Legacy, Diplomacy
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The Yom Kippur War : politics, legacy, diplomacy / [edited by] Asaf Siniver. — First Edition.
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1. Israel-Arab War, 1973. 2. Israel-Arab War, 1973—Influence. 3. Israel—Diplomatic history. I. Siniver,
Asaf, 1976– editor of compilation. II. Siniver, Asaf, 1976– editor of compilation. U.S. foreign policy and the
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CONTENTS
List of contributors vii
1. Introduction Asaf Siniver 1
2. Assessing the Historiography of the October War
Carly Beckerman-Boys 11
3. Israel and the October War Jacob Eriksson 29
4. The October War And Egypt’s Multiple Crossings
Yoram Meital 49
5. Syria and the October War: The Missed Opportunity
Eyal Zisser 67
6. US Foreign Policy and the Kissinger Stratagem Asaf Siniver 85
7. The Soviet Union and the October War Galia Golan 101
8. Jordan’s War That Never Was Assaf David 119
9. Palestinian Politics in Transition: The Case of the October
War Philipp O. Amour 137
10. Faraway Causes, Immediate Effects: The War and European
Consequences Rory Miller 155
11. Oil and the October War David S. Painter 173
12. Ashraf Marwan and Israel’s Intelligence Failure
Ahron Bregman 195
13. Evolving a Diplomatic Legacy from the War: The US,
Egyptian, and Israeli Triangle Kenneth W. Stein 209
14. Clashing Narratives of the October War: Collective
Memory and Group Perspective Claudia De Martino 231
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15. Gone But Not Forgotten? The Occasional Lessons of the
October 1973 War Clive Jones 249
Notes 265
Index 317
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Dr Philipp O. Amour is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of
Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He was a
doctoral Visiting Fellow at the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern
Studies, American University of Beirut and at Birzeit University in the
Palestinian territories (2007–9). His research examines modern political
transformation and the cultural history of the Palestinians, for which he
has been awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for
prospective PhD researcher (2009) and for prospective postdoctoral
researcher (2011). He is presently a visiting Assistant Professor at the
department of Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi
University.
Ms Carly Beckerman-Boys is a Junior Research Fellow at the Global
Policy Institute and a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Politi-
cal Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham. Her
research focuses on the Arab–Israeli conflict, foreign policy analysis and
contemporary British foreign policy.
Dr Ahron Bregman was born in Israel. After six years of army service,
during which he took part in the 1982 Lebanon War he left the army to
work at the Knesset as a parliamentary assistant. He studied in Jerusalem
and London, completing a doctorate in War Studies at King’s College
London in 1994. He is the author of The Fifty Years War (Penguin, 1998,
with Jihan el-Tahri), the companion book to a six-part BBC television
documentary and its sequel Elusive Peace (Penguin, 2005), the compan-
ion book to a three-part BBC television documentary; also of A History
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of Israel (Palgrave, 2002) and Israel’s Wars (Routledge, 2010). His book
Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupised Territories will be
published by Penguin in 2014. He teaches at the Department of War
Studies King’s College London.
Dr Assaf David a Jordan expert, holds a PhD in Social Science from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He teaches and conducts research on
Jordan, civil–military relations and comparative politics of the Middle
East at the Hebrew University. He is a chief analyst of Jordan affairs at
the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), an Israel-based NGO.
He serves as a consultant on Jordan affairs for other Israeli and foreign
NGO’s, as well as private sector and public sector organisations.
Dr Claudia De Martino graduated summa cum laude from her BA in
Contemporary History at Roma Tre University and in 2007 completed
her MA at the University of La Sapienza in Rome. In 2008 she spent a
study year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, thanks to an EMU2
research scholarship. She has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Van Leer
Institute of Jerusalem in 2009 and 2010, and a teaching assistant at the
Chair of History of Europe and the Mediterranean at the Roma Tre
University. In May 2012 she obtained her PhD in Social History of the
Mediterranean at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, working on a
thesis on the absorption of Mizrahi Jews in the 1950s and 1960s. She is
currently a researcher on Middle Eastern Affairs at UNIMED and con-
tributes regularly with the Aspen Institute Italy.
Dr Jacob Eriksson is a Teaching Fellow in Middle Eastern Politics at
the University of York. He was awarded his PhD by the School of Ori-
ental and African Studies (SOAS), London, in October 2011. His thesis
was entitled “Swedish mediation of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: a
study of the utility of small-state mediation and Track II diplomacy.”
His research interests include the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the
wider Arab–Israeli conflict, conflict resolution, and Middle Eastern
politics and security.
Professor Galia Golan held the Jay and Leoni Darwin Chair in Soviet
and East Europe Studies in the Political Science Department of the
Hebrew University and was chair of the Mayrock Center for Eurasian
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and East European Research at the Hebrew University, presently Profes-
sor, IDC, Herzliya. She is author of nine books, including Yom Kippur
and After: the Soviet Union and the Middle East Crisis (Cambridge Uni-
versity Press, 1977); The Soviet Union and the PLO (Praeger, 1976); The
Soviet Union and National Liberation Movements in the Third World
(Allen & Unwin, 1988); Soviet Policies in the Middle East from World
War II to Gorbachev (Cambridge University Press,1990); Moscow and the
Middle East (Chatham House, 1992); Gorbachev’s ‘New Thinking’ on
Terrorism (Praeger, 1990).
Professor Clive Jones is Professor of Regional Security at the University
of Durham. His published works include Soviet Jewish Aliyah 1989–92
(Routledge, 1996) (with Emma Murphy); Israel: Challenges to Identity,
Democracy and the State (Routledge, 2002), Britain and the Yemen Civil
War 1962–1965 (Sussex Academic Press, 2004/2010) (with Ami Pedah-
zur, co-editor); Between Terrorism and Civil War: The al-Aqsa Intifada
(Routledge, 2005) (with Sergio Catignani, co-editor); Israel and Hizbol-
lah: An Asymmetric Conflict in Historical and Comparative Perspective
(Routledge,2009). He has published widely on Middle East politics,
intelligence and security issues, and in March 2010 his book Britain and
the Yemen Civil War was the subject of the BBC Radio 4 history pro-
gramme, Document, examining British clandestine involvement in the
Yemen civil war.
Professor Yoram Meital is chairman of the Chaim Herzog Center for
Middle East Studies and Diplomacy, and a member of the Department
of Middle East Studies, both at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Currently, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program
at Harvard Law School (2011–12). Currently, he is a member in the
Working Group on Arab Transformative Movements (Center for Middle
East Studies, Harvard University).
Professor Rory Miller is Director of Middle East and Mediterranean
Studies at King’s College London. His research and teaching deal pri-
marily with EU and US intervention in the Middle East and the role of
small states in the global economy. He is author or editor of eight books,
most recently Britain, Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years (Ashgate,
2010) and Inglorious Disarray: Europe, Israel and the Palestinians since
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