A Concise History of the Middle East

The Egyptian Revolution ••• 263 cabinet to the next (most of them coalitions of independent or minor- party politicians) as the ...

264 • 15 EGYPT'S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE oppressor. Second, the prestige of the Western democracies rose following their decis ...

The Egyptian Revolution ••• 265 valued their strategic position and continued to build up their base in the Canal Zone. Meanwhil ...

266 • 15 EGYPT'S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE plus a commitment to drive the remaining British troops from the Nile Valley. The lat ...

A Strange Ending • 267 Settlement of the Suez Canal Issue The early Nasir regime was determined to settle the Egyptian question ...

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SIXTEEN The Contest for Palestine Palestine, the "twice-promised land" as British wags used to call it, has caused more ink to s ...

270 • 16 THE CONTEST FOR PALESTINE against Jews, inasmuch as Arabs are Semites, too) was worse, but that his¬ toric prejudice se ...

Prefatory Remarks ••• 271 PREFATORY REMARKS Let us first define political Zionism. Zionism is the belief that the Jews con¬ stit ...

272 • 16 THE CONTEST FOR PALESTINE practice Judaism—indeed, even those who have converted to another faith—are still apt to be r ...

The Beginnings of Political Zionism ••• 273 The European Enlightenment and the rise of liberal democracy freed many Western Jews ...

274 • 16 THE CONTEST FOR PALESTINE Many false messiahs had led people astray by their extravagant claims, causing much suffering ...

The Beginnings of Political Zionism ••• 275 for Jews throughout North Africa and the Middle East, upgrading their standard of ed ...

276 • 16 THE CONTEST FOR PALESTINE government (often misnamed the "Uganda Scheme") that would have let the Zionists settle in wh ...

Britain and the Palestine Problem • 277 forget that most of the olim soon lost their zeal for this risky and unre¬ warding adven ...

278 • 16 THE CONTEST FOR PALESTINE Zionism from reading the Bible. Weizmann also won the backing of the foreign secretary, Lord ...

Britain and the Palestine Problem • 279 soon became embroiled in a struggle between Jewish settlers, who were entering Palestine ...

280 • 16 THE CONTEST FOR PALESTINE the British authorities in developing that national home, which none dared to call a "state." ...

Britain and the Palestine Problem • 281 and the Jews' first self-defense militia during the 1920 Arab rebellion. Jabotinsky repr ...

282 • 16 THE CONTEST FOR PALESTINE Amin al-Husayni A min al-Husayni (1893-1974) is a hero to many Palestinian Arabs and a -/^vil ...