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War in Palestine, 1948: Israeli and Arab Strategy and Diplomacy

By David Tal

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2004
ISBN
071465275X, 9780714652757
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2780584 bytes)
Series
Israeli History, Politics, and Society
Edition
1
Pages
400\513
Time added
2018-03-09 09:14:51
Asia;Central Asia;Southeast Asia;China;Hong Kong;I

Description

Arab involvement in the Jewish-Palestine conflict had started during the late 1930s, but it was only in the wake of the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947 that active military intervention was considered. The Arab League tried to form a unified army that would prevent the implementation of the Partition Resolution, but failed. In Egypt, the government and the army opposed the idea of dispatching an expeditionary force to Palestine, but the pressure of public opinion and King Farouq's insistence carried the day. The order was given and in May 1948, Egyptian forces crossed the international border with Palestine. The author analyses the reasons for the decisive victory enjoyed by Israel over a larger opponent; and the successes and failures that were sealed in the Egyptian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement signed in Rhodes in March 1948.

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