The Israel-Arab Reader
A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict: Eighth Revised and Updated Edition
8th Edition
Published on 20. September 2016
608 pages
978-1-101-99241-8 (ISBN)
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An essential resource, completely revised and updated for the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Israel
In print for forty years, The Israel-Arab Reader is a thorough and up-to-date guide to the continuing crisis in the Middle East. It covers the full spectrum of the Israel-Arab conflict, including a new chapter recounting the Gaza withdrawal, the Hamas election victory, and the Lebanon-Israel War. Featuring a new introduction that provides an overview of the past 115 years of conflict, and arranged chronologically and without bias, this comprehensive reference includes speeches, letters, articles, timelines, and reports dealing with all the major interests in the area.
In print for forty years, The Israel-Arab Reader is a thorough and up-to-date guide to the continuing crisis in the Middle East. It covers the full spectrum of the Israel-Arab conflict, including a new chapter recounting the Gaza withdrawal, the Hamas election victory, and the Lebanon-Israel War. Featuring a new introduction that provides an overview of the past 115 years of conflict, and arranged chronologically and without bias, this comprehensive reference includes speeches, letters, articles, timelines, and reports dealing with all the major interests in the area.
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The Israel-Arab Reader
A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict: Eighth Revised and Updated Edition
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09/2016
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Walter Laqueur, a professor of history and an expert commentator on international affairs, has written and edited more than twenty-five books.
Barry Rubin is deputy director of the BESA Center for Strategic Studies and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. He has written many books on Middle East politics.
Barry Rubin is deputy director of the BESA Center for Strategic Studies and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. He has written many books on Middle East politics.
Content
- Intro
- About the Editors
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction to the Eighth Edition
- Part I: From the Bilu to the British Mandate's End
- Bilu Group: Manifesto (1882)
- Theodor Herzl: The Jewish State (1896)
- The First Zionist Congress: The Basle Declaration (August 1897)
- Negib Azouri: Program of the League of the Arab Fatherland (1905)
- Sir Henry McMahon: The McMahon Letter (October 24, 1915)
- British and French Governments: The Sykes-Picot Agreement (May 15-16, 1916)
- British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour: The Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917)
- Emir Feisal and Chaim Weizmann: Agreement (January 3, 1919)
- Emir Feisal and Felix Frankfurter: Correspondence (March 3-5, 1919)
- The General Syrian Congress: Memorandum Presented to the King-Crane Commission (July 2, 1919)
- The King-Crane Commission: Recommendations (August 28, 1919)
- Winston Churchill: The Churchill White Paper (June 1922)
- League of Nations: The British Mandate (July 24, 1922)
- British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald: The MacDonald Letter (February 13, 1931)
- The Palestine Royal Commission (Peel Commission): Report (July 1937)
- British Government: Policy Statement Against Partition (November 1938)
- British Government: The White Paper (May 17, 1939)
- The Jewish Agency for Palestine: Zionist Reaction to the White Paper (1939)
- German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini: Zionism and the Arab Cause (November 28, 1941)
- The Biltmore Program: Towards a Jewish State (May 11, 1942)
- The Arab Office: The Arab Case for Palestine (March 1946)
- The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry: Recommendations and Comments (May 1, 1946)
- UN Special Committee on Palestine: Summary Report (August 31, 1947)
- UN General Assembly: Resolution on the Future Government of Palestine (Partition Resolution) (November 29, 1947)
- Part II: From Israel's Independence Through the 1973 War's Aftermath
- State of Israel: Proclamation of Independence (May 14, 1948)
- UN General Assembly: Resolution 194 (December 11, 1948)
- UN General Assembly: Resolution 303, On the Internationalization of Jerusalem (December 9, 1949)
- State of Israel: Law of Return (July 5, 1950)
- UN Security Council: Resolution 619, Concerning Restrictions on the Passage of Ships Through the Suez Canal (September 1, 1951)
- Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: On Zionism and Israel (1960-1963)
- United Arab Republic: Manifesto (April 1963)
- Palestine Liberation Organization: Draft Constitution (1963)
- Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: Speech at UAR Advanced Air Headquarters (May 25, 1967)
- Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: Speech to Arab Trade Unionists (May 26, 1967)
- Muhammad Hassanain Haykal: An Armed Clash with Israel Is Inevitable-Why? (May 26, 1967)
- Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: Speech to National Assembly Members (May 29, 1967)
- Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: Resignation Broadcast (June 9, 1967)
- Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban: Speech at the Special Assembly of the United Nations (June 19, 1967)
- Israeli Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin: The Right of Israel (June 28, 1967)
- Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: We Shall Triumph (July 23, 1968)
- UN Security Council: Resolution 242 (November 22, 1967)
- Palestine National Council: The Palestinian National Charter (July 1968)
- Y. Harkabi: Fatah's Doctrine (December 1968)
- Fatah: The Seven Points (January 1969)
- Muhammad Hassanain Haykal: The Strategy of the War of Attrition (March-April 1969)
- PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat (Abu Ammar): An Interview (August 1969)
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: Platform (1969)
- Soviet General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev: Position on the 1973 War (October 9, 1973)
- Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad: Speech (October 15, 1973)
- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat: Speech (October 16, 1973)
- UN Security Council: Resolution 338 (October 22, 1973)
- Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir: Statement in the Knesset (October 23, 1973)
- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat: Speech (April 3, 1974)
- Palestine National Council: Resolutions (June 1974)
- The Agranat Commission: Report (1974)
- George Habash: Interview (August 3, 1974)
- PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Address to the UN General Assembly (November 13, 1974)
- Y. Harkabi: The Meaning of "A Democratic Palestinian State" (1974)
- Egyptian-Israeli Accord on Sinai (September 1, 1975)
- Part III: From Camp David Through the Madrid Conference
- Harold H. Saunders: U.S. Foreign Policy and Peace in the Middle East (November 12, 1975)
- The Likud Party: Platform (March 1977)
- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat: Peace with Justice (November 20, 1977)
- PLO: Six-Point Program (December 4, 1977)
- Arab League: Summit Declaration (December 5, 1977)
- Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin: Autonomy Plan for the West Bank and Gaza Strip (December 28, 1977)
- U.S. President Jimmy Carter: Statement on Palestinian Rights (January 4, 1978)
- UN Security Council: Resolution 425, on Lebanon (March 19, 1978)
- Camp David Summit Meeting: Frameworks for Peace (September 17, 1978)
- Egypt and Israel: Peace Treaty (March 26, 1979)
- Arab League: Summit Communiqué (March 31, 1979)
- Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: On the Camp David Agreement (September 25, 1979)
- PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Interview on Camp David (November 19, 1979)
- Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad: Speech (March 8, 1980)
- European Council: Venice Declaration (June 13, 1980)
- Israeli Government: Fundamental Policy Guidelines (August 5, 1981)
- Saudi Crown Prince Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz: The Fahd Plan (August 7, 1981)
- West Bank Palestinians: Reactions to Camp David (August 30, 1981)
- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: Egypt and Israel (October 14, 1981)
- U.S. and Israel: Memorandum of Understanding (November 30, 1981)
- Israeli Law on the Golan Heights (December 14, 1981)
- Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon: Israel's Security (December 15, 1981)
- Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir: Israel's Role in a Changing Middle East (Spring 1982)
- Egyptian Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The Foreign Policy of Egypt in the Post-Sadat Era (Spring 1982)
- U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz: Congressional Testimony (July 12, 1982)
- Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin: The Wars of No Alternative and Operation Peace for the Galilee (August 8, 1982)
- U.S. President Ronald Reagan: The Reagan Plan (September 1, 1982)
- Twelfth Arab Summit Conference: Final Statement (September 9, 1982)
- Jordanian Crown Prince Al-Hasan Bin Talal: Jordan's Quest for Peace (Fall 1982)
- The Kahan Commission: Report (February 7, 1983)
- PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Speech to Palestine National Council (February 14, 1983)
- Palestine National Council: Political Statement (February 22, 1983)
- Barry Rubin: United It Stalls, The PLO (March 21, 1983)
- Jordanian Government: Refusal to Join the Reagan Peace Initiative (April 10, 1983)
- Lebanon and Israel: Truce Agreement (May 17, 1983)
- Said Musa: Interview on Internal Dissent (May 26, 1983)
- Khalid al-Hasan: On the Dissident Rebellion (May 27, 1983)
- King Hussein of Jordan: Speech to the Palestine National Council (November 22, 1984)
- Jordan-PLO: Joint Communiqué (February 11, 1985)
- King Hussein of Jordan: Ending the Jordan-PLO Initiative (February 19, 1986)
- Israel and Jordan: "The London Document" (April 11, 1987)
- PLO Executive Committee: On the Intifada (December 1987)
- West Bank-Gaza Palestinian Leaders: Fourteen Points (January 14, 1988)
- Unified National Command of the Intifada: Call No. 6 (February 4, 1988)
- U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz: Plan (March 6, 1988)
- PLO Executive Committee: Statement on the Intifada (April 1988)
- United National Command of the Intifada: Calls No. 12, 16, and 18 (April-May 1988)
- King Hussein of Jordan: Disengagement from the West Bank (July 31, 1988)
- Hamas: Charter (August 1988)
- Palestine National Council: Political Resolution (November 15, 1988)
- Palestine National Council: Declaration of Independence (November 15, 1988)
- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: The Inevitability of Peace (January 21, 1989)
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: Peace Plan (May 14, 1989)
- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: Ten-Point Plan (September 4, 1989)
- Part IV: The Apparent Approach of Peace
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Inaugural Speech (July 13, 1992)
- PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Speech for Fatah's Anniversary (December 31, 1992)
- Mahmoud Darwish: Resigning from the PLO Executive Committee (August 1993)
- Israel and PLO: Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements ["Oslo Agreement"](September 13, 1993)
- Israel and PLO: Agreed Minutes to the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (September 13, 1993)
- U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Speeches at the Signing of the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles (September 13, 1993)
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Speech to Knesset (September 21, 1993)
- Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad: Reaction to Israel-PLO Agreement (October 1, 1993)
- Hani al-Hasan: Opposition to the Israel-PLO Accord (October 9, 1993)
- West Bank-Gaza Palestinian Leaders: Memorandum to Chairman Yasir Arafat (November 1993)
- Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad and U.S. President Bill Clinton: Statement on Their Meeting (January 16, 1994)
- Israel and PLO: Cairo Agreement (March 4, 1994)
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Speeches at the Signing of the Cairo Agreement (March 4, 1994)
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Speech to Knesset (April 18, 1994)
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Accepting the UNESCO Peace Prize (July 6, 1994)
- Israel and Jordan: The Washington Agreement (July 26, 1994)
- King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Speeches on Signing the Washington Agreement (July 26, 1994)
- Israel and Jordan: Peace Treaty (October 26, 1994)
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres: Speeches Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize (December 10, 1994)
- Sufyan Abu-Zayidah: Interview (January 27, 1995)
- Israeli and Palestinian Authority: Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip (September 28, 1995)
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Speech at Peace Rally (November 4, 1995)
- Israel and Palestinian Authority: Hebron Accords (January 15, 1997)
- U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher: Letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (January 15, 1997)
- Alessandra Antonelli: From the Battlefield to the Table (February 27, 1998)
- Yoel Marcus: "If They Want It, They'll Take It" (December 26, 2000)
- Palestinian Negotiating Team: Remarks and Questions Regarding the Clinton Plan (January 2, 2001)
- U.S. President Bill Clinton: Summarizing His Experience with the Peace Process (January 7, 2001)
- Part V: Conflict Renewed
- Arab League Summit: "Beirut Declaration" (March 28, 2002)
- U.S. President George W. Bush: A New Palestinian Leadership (June 24, 2002)
- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas: Speech at Palestinian Legislative Council (April 29, 2003)
- U.S. President George W. Bush: Letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Israeli Withdrawal (April 14, 2004)
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: Disengagement Plan (May 28, 2004)
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: Speech at Start of Gaza Pullout (August 15, 2005)
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: UN General Assembly (September 15, 2005)
- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: Speech to Syria's Journalist Union (September 15, 2005)
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The World without Zionism Conference (October 26, 2005)
- Lebanese Political Leader Walid Jumblatt: Television Interview (July 20, 2006)
- Hizballah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah: Interview on Al Jazeera Television (July 24, 2006)
- Hizballah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah: Televised Speech (July 26, 2006)
- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: Speech to Mayors (August 28, 2006)
- UN Security Council: Ceasefire Resolution (August 11, 2006)
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Speech to the UN General Assembly (September 19, 2006)
- Hamas-Fatah: Mecca Agreement (February 8, 2007)
- Palestinian Authority Leader Mahmoud Abbas: Letter to Ismail Haniya (February 9, 2007)
- Palestinian Authority: Hamas-Fatah Coalition Platform (March 17, 2007)
- Acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Ahmad Bahr: Speech (April 13, 2007)
- Palestinian Authority Leader Mahmoud Abbas: Address to the PLO Central Council (June 20, 2007)
- Fathi Hamad, Palestinian Legislative Council Member (Hamas): Speech (August 10, 2007)
- U.S. President George W. Bush: Annapolis Conference (November 27, 2007)
- Part VI: No War, No Peace
- UN Security Council: Resolution 1860 (January 8, 2009)
- U.S. President Barack Obama: A New Beginning (June 4, 2009)
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Bar Ilan Speech (June 14, 2009)
- Turkish Government: Statements and Comments (May 31, 2010 and June 1, 2010)
- UN Human Rights Council: Report (September 27, 2010)
- The Turkel Commission: Report (January 2011)
- Hamas-Fatah: Cairo Agreement (May 3, 2011)
- UN Secretary-General's Panel of Inquiry: Report on the Flotilla Incident (September 2011)
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Speech at UN General Assembly (September 23, 2011)
- Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood: Relations with Israel (November 14, 2012)
- The Turkel Commission: Second Report (February 2013)
- Fatah: Press Announcement (May 17, 2013)
- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani: Speech at UN General Assembly (September 24, 2013)
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: Speech to Palestinians from East Jerusalem (January 11, 2014)
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: Speech to Young Fatah Activists on Refugees and the Right to Return (March 6, 2014)
- PLO-Hamas: Palestinian Reconciliation Agreement (April 23, 2014)
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: Address to the UN General Assembly (September 26, 2014)
- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah as-Sisi: Speech on the Occasion of Christmas and the Prophet's Birthday (December 22, 2014)
- The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed el-Tayeb: Speech at the Counter-Terrorism Conference (February 22, 2015)
