A Concise History of the Middle East

286 • 16 THE CONTEST FOR PALESTINE that "we must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resis ...

Britain and the Palestine Problem • 287 Palestine. The US government began to pressure Britain to end restrictions on Jewish imm ...

288 • 16 THE CONTEST FOR PALESTINE 0 100 200 300 400 500 miles I. h •• | '• I^1 i 1 LEBANON / ;U nuia 0 200 400 600 800 kilomete ...

Britain and the Palestine Problem • 289 groups in Palestine soon seized lands not allotted to their side, and Arab commandos oft ...

290 • 16 THE CONTEST FOR PALESTINE the development of the state, on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representati ...

SEVENTEEN Israel's Rebirth and the Rise of Arab Nationalism The 1948-1949 war between the new State of Israel and its Arab neigh ...

292 • 17 ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND THE RISE OF ARAB NATIONALISM ISRAEL'S WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE How and why did Israel win the war? The ...

Israel's War for Independence • 293 In the early days of the war, small bands of poorly armed Israelis had to ward off large Ara ...

294 • 17 ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND THE RISE OF ARAB NATIONALISM interests in Iraq and Kuwait. But although the Foreign Office and man ...

The War's Aftermath • 295 Bunche was able to negotiate a truce so that isolated Jewish settlements could be resupplied, but the ...

296 • 17 ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND THE RISE OF ARAB NATIONALISM the Arabs called on Israel to withdraw from the lands not allotted to ...

The War's Aftermath • 297 most Egyptian generals and cabinet ministers had hoped to avoid the ex¬ pected war in Palestine. It wa ...

298 • 17 ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND THE RISE OF ARAB NATIONALISM region, where Egypt set up an "all-Palestine government" under the fo ...

The Arab Countries • 299 there were several Arab states, many leaders, and various policies. Some Arab governments were stable, ...

300 • 17 ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND THE RISE OF ARAB NATIONALISM Republic of Syria had grown embittered during a generation of unwante ...

The Arab Countries • 301 Christians who had moved to Europe or the Americas, it could have been proven that most Lebanese after ...

302 • 17 ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND THE RISE OF ARAB NATIONALISM was ousted by an army coup in 1949. Two more coups ensued that year. ...

The Arab Countries • 303 regime. In 1932 Iraq was the first Arab mandate to become nominally inde¬ pendent and join the League o ...

304 • 17 ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND THE RISE OF ARAB NATIONALISM Egypt's Nasir and His Policies Our discussion of Egypt's early twenti ...

The Arab Countries • 305 especially history books and biographies of such leaders as Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and (closer to hom ...