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Public Affairs, 1955); Mohamed Neguib, Egypt's Destiny: A Personal Statement

(London: Gollancz; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955); and Anwar El Sadat, Revolt

on the Nile (London: Allan Wingate; New York: John Day, 1957). A Web site that

covers Egypt to December 1990 is http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/egtoc.html.

CHAPTER I6

Literature abounds on the contest for Palestine, but it is hard to separate scholarship
from propaganda. Works closest to the former include Ian Bickerton and Caria L.
Klausner, A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 4th ed. (Paramus, NJ: Pren¬
tice-Hall, 2005), which is also available online from SafariX; Anton La Guardia, War
Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land (New York:
St. Martin's Press, 2001); Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of Zionist-Arab
Conflict, 1881-1999 (New York: Knopf, 1999); Howard M. Sachar, Europe Leaves the
Middle East, 1936-1954 (New York: Knopf, 1972); Charles D. Smith, Palestine and
the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 5th ed. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004); and Mark
Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Bloomington: Indiana Univer¬
sity Press, 1994). An accessible collection of documents is Walter Laqueur and Barry
Rubin, eds., Israel-Arab Reader, 6th ed. (New York: Penguin, 2001). For a balanced
Web site on the conflict, see news bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/ world/
2001 /israel_and_palestinians/timeline/.
Personal accounts of the early struggle for Palestine include Robert John and
Sami Hadawi's Palestine Diary, 2 vols. (New York: New World Press, 1970) for the
Arabs, Ronald Storrs's Orientations (London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1937) for
the British, and Chaim Weizmann's Trial and Error (New York: Harper, 1949) for
the Zionists. On the British mandate, see Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews
and Arabs Under the British Mandate, trans. Haim Watzman (New York: Henry
Holt, 2000); Naomi Shepherd, Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine, 1917-1948
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000); and Bernard Wasserstein,
The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,
1917-1929, 2nd ed. (Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1991). Putting
Britain's Palestine policy in broader perspective is William Roger Louis, The British
Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984). A Web site
on the British mandate that has links to many of the documents that this chapter
mentions is http://www.mideastweb.org/mandate.htm.
Among general histories of Israel, useful also for our later chapters, the best are
Ahron Bregman, A History of Israel (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Yossi
Beilin, Israel: A Concise Political History (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994); Mar¬
tin Gilbert, Israel: A History (New York: William Morrow, 1998); and Nadav Safran,
Israel: The Embattled Ally (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1978). Especially read¬
able are Abba Eban, My Country (New York: Random House, 1972); and Amos