The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

Wye River Memorandum
background, 260, 267–269
text, 269–276

Y
Yassin, Sheik Ahmed, 205–206
Yemen and USS Colebombing, 567
Young Turks, 629, 636

Z
Zahar, Mahmoud
letter to Annan seeking support for
new government, 322–323
Palestinian foreign minister, 319
Zahedi, Fazallah, 376
Zahir Shah, Mohammad, 565, 569, 600

Zinni, Anthony C., 289

Zionism

Arab-Jewish dialogue, 17–18

Balfour Declaration

background, 14, 23–24

overview, 5

text, 24–25

British alignment with, 5

declaration of Israel’s independence,

37, 38

Greater Israel, 178

King-Crane Commission report, 20

Palestine mandate, 42

racism and, 116

Revisionist faction, 59

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