Table Of ContentZIONISM AND ARABISM IN PALESTINE
AND ISRAEL
ZIONISM AND ARABISM
IN PALESTINE AND
ISRAEL
Edited by
ELIE KEDOURIE
and
SYLVIA G.HAIM
FRANK CASS
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Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel.
1. Palestine—Politics and government
I. Kedourie, Elie
II. Haim, Sylvia G
956.940(cid:127) 4 DS126
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Contents
PREFACE vi
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS viii
THE YISHUV, SIR HERBERT SAMUEL, AND THE ARAB 1
QUESTION IN PALESTINE, 1921–25
Neil Caplan
ARAB REBELLION AND TERRORISM IN PALESTINE 1929– 53
39: THE CASE OF SHEIKH Izz AL-DIN AL-QASSAM AND HIS
MOVEMENT
Shai Lachman
THE MILITARY FORCE OF ISLAM: THE SOCIETY OF THE 101
MUSLIM BRETHREN AND THE PALESTINE QUESTION,
1945–48
Thomas Mayer
THE ARAB STATES AND PALESTINE 119
Aaron S.Klieman
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON 139
PALESTINE 1945–46: THE ZIONIST REACTION
RECONSIDERED
Joseph Heller
HUSNI AL-BARAZI ON ARAB NATIONALISM IN PALESTINE 173
Allen H.Podet
‘WITHDRAWAL WITHOUT RECOMMENDATIONS’: 185
BRITAIN’S DECISION TO RELINQUISH THE PALESTINE
MANDATE, 1947
Amitzur Ilan
JEWISH EMIGRATION AND SOVIET-ARAB RELATIONS, 211
1954–67
Yaacov Ro’i
v
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN-ISRAELI RELATIONS TO 229
THE YOM KIPPUR WAR: NIGERIA AS A CASE STUDY
Ibrahim A.Gambari
INTEGRATION OF ARABS IN AN ISRAELI PARTY : THE 241
CASE OF MAPAM, 1948–54
Yael Yishai
Preface
The ten studies published in this volume were submitted, and accepted, for
publication in Middle Eastern Studies. But it has seemed to the Editors that these
studies, tackling as they do various issues stemming from the long drawn out
conflict between Arabism and Zionism before and after the establishment of
Israel, form a coherent collection and could, with advantage, be published
together—hence the present volume. The studies fall into a number of well-
defined groups. The first three chapters reconsider aspects of Arab-Jewish
relations and the Arab struggle against Zionism from the arrival of Sir Herbert
Samuel in Palestine until the end of the Mandate. New light is here thrown on
Zionist attitudes to the Arab question, on the beginnings of the Arab armed
struggle against the Mandate and Jewish settlement, and on the character of the
intervention by the Muslim Brethren in the affairs of Palestine during the last
years of the Mandate.
The next four chapters are concerned with the diplomatic events and the
political decisions leading to the abandonment of the Mandate by Great Britain.
Here, too, issues are raised and questions posed which stimulate thought and give
rise to further questions.
Chapters eight and nine relate to the diplomatic history of Israel and of the
Arab-Israeli conflict. They illustrate how the Palestine question, from being a
relatively local and minor question at its beginnings, now has multifarious and
world-wide ramifications.
Finally, the last chapter deals with an aspect of the political and economic life
of town Arabs of Palestine who, through the accident of war, now find
themselves Israeli citizens.
E.K.
S.G.H.
Due to the high cost of printing, it has been
decided to eliminate diacritical marks in transliteration,
except in a few cases where ambiguity
could arise.
Notes on Contributors
Neil Caplan, author of Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917–1925
(Cass, 1978) and Futile Diplomacy: A Documentary Study of Arab-Zionist
Negotiation Attempts (forthcoming), teaches Humanities at Vanier College,
Montreal.
Shai Lachman teaches at the Department of Middle Eastern History of the
University of Haifa. From 1972 to 1975 he was Coordinator of the Middle East
Research Unit in the Harry S.Truman Research Institute, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. At present he is preparing his Ph.D. thesis.
Thomas Mayer has studied Modern History of the Muslim Countries at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is currently a Ph.D. student at the
London School of Economics.
Aaron S.Klieman is senior lecturer in International Relations and former
chairman, Department of Political Science, Tel-Aviv University. Visiting
professor at Georgetown University (1979–80), he is author of Foundations of
British Policy in the Arab World.
Joseph Heller is senior lecturer in the Departments of International Relations
and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His book on
British Policy towards the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1914 is soon to appear, and
he is currently completing another book on The Emergence of the State of
Israel, 1945–1948.
Allen Podet is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at
New York State University College, Buffalo, New York. He has done primary
research at the U.S. Department of State and the Foreign and Colonial Offices,
and has lectured extensively in the United States, England and Germany. He is
producing a book on post-war Palestine.
Amitzur Ilan is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Zionist Research of Tel-
Aviv University, and a Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College,
Oxford. He is the author of America, Britain and Palestine (Jerusalem 1979).
Yaacov Ro’i is Head of the Russian and East European Research Center at
Tel Aviv University and Senior Lecturer in Russian History there. He is the
author of From Encroachment to Involvement (John Wiley and Israel
ix
Universities Press, 1974) and Soviet Decision Making in Practice: Soviet-
Israeli Relations, 194 7–1954 (Transaction, forthcoming), and editor of The
Limits to Power (Croom Helm and St Martin’s, 1979).
Ibrahim A.Gambari, formerly an Assistant Professor at State University of
New York, Albany, is now Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria, Nigeria. He is editor of Nigerian Journal of Political
Science, and his book, Party Politics and Foreign Policy: Nigeria 1960–65,
has just been published by Ahmadu Bello University Press.
Yael Yishai is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she
received her PhD in Political Science (1976). She is currently a Senior
Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Haifa. Her publications
include a book and numerous articles on interest groups and political parties in
Palestine and Israel.
