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and Official Perceptions from the Balfour Declaration to Israeli Statehood (Gaines¬

ville: University Press of Florida, 2001). For a Web site, see http://www

.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ustoc.html.

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On the 1948 Palestine War, or Israel's war of independence, see the edited volume
by Eugene Rogan and Avi Shlaim, The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of
1948 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001); followed by David Tal, War
in Palestine 1948: Strategy and Diplomacy (London and New York: Routledge,
2004). For a revisionist interpretation, start with Ilan Pappé, The Making of the
Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 (London: I. B. Tauris, 1994). A Jordanian account
is Ma'n Abu Nuwar, The Jordanian-Israeli War, 1948-1951: A History of the
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (London: Garnet Press, 2002). Sir John Bagot
Glubb eloquently defends his role in The Story of the Arab Legion (London: Hod-
der & Stoughton, 1948) and A Soldier with the Arabs (London: Hodder &
Stoughton, 1957; New York: Harper Brothers, 1958). Glubb's role is studied by
Benny Morris, The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine, and the Jews (Lon¬
don: I. B. Tauris; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). The Journal of Palestine
Studies has published relevant memoirs by several Arab leaders, including Fawzi
al-Qawuqji (in 1972) and Gamal Abd al-Nasir (in 1973). See also Larry Collins
and Dominique Lapierre, O Jerusalem! (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972). On
the aftermath of the 1948 war, see Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, The Crystallization of
the Arab State System, 1945-1954 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993);
Don Peretz, Israel and the Palestine Arabs (Washington, DC: Middle East Institute,
1956); and Nadav Safran, From War to War (New York: Pegasus, 1969). Benny
Morris leads the Israeli revisionists with three books on Israel's relations with the
Arabs: The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (New York and Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1987); 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1990); and Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956:
Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1993). An Israeli scholar has recently weighed in
on the Palestinians: Yoav Gelber, Palestine 1948: War, Escape, and the Emergence of
the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Brighton, UK, and Portland, OR: Sussex Univer¬
sities Press, 2001). For a Palestinian view, see Nur Masalha's Expulsion of the Pales¬
tinians (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992). Paralleling the
Arab exodus from Israel was an influx of Jews from the Arab countries, on which
see Norman Stillman, The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times (Philadelphia: Jew¬
ish Publication Society, 1991).
On the new State of Israel, see David Ben Gurion, Rebirth and Destiny of Israel,
trans. Mordekhai Nurock (New York: Philosophical Library, 1954); Simha Flapan,