Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948

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Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land. Professor Monty Noam Penkower explores developments in Palestine and in the Arab states, including how the Palestine quagmire became a pawn in inter-Arab feuds; British and American responses both official and public; the role of Holocaust survivors; the context of the Cold War; and the saga as it unfolded in the corridors of the United Nations. Joining extensive archival research to a lucid prose, the two volumes offer a riveting conclusion to his Palestine in Turmoil and Decision on Palestine Deferred. Table of Contents Preface 1. The 100,000 2. Tenuat HaMeri HaIvri 3. The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry 4. “Black Sabbath” to the Hotel Royal Monceau 5. Truman, Bevin, and the World Zionist Congress 6. To the United Nations 7. UNSCOP, Two Sergeants, and the Exodus 1947 8. Partition 9. Civil War 10. Statehood at Long Last Conclusion Bibliography Appendix Index