Ritchie Ovendale - The Origins of the Arab Israeli Wars

ORIGINS OF MODERN WARS
General editor: Harry Hearder

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The Origins of
the Arab-Israeli
Wars

FOURTH EDITION

Ritchie Ovendale

First published 1984 by Pearson Education Limited

Second edition 1992
Third edition 1999
Fourth edition 2004

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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-82320-4 (pbk)

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Ovendale, Ritchie.

The origins of the Arab-Israeli wars / Ritchie Ovendale. 4th ed.
p. cm. (Origins of modern wars)

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 0-582-82320-X

1. Arab-Israeli conflict. 2. IsraelHistory, Military. 3. Arab countriesHistory, Military. I. Title. II. Series.

DS119.7.O93 2004

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2003068902

Set by 35 in 10/13.5pt Sabon

S ome of the research for this book was made possible by grants from the British Academy and its Small Grants Fund in the Humanities, the Nuffield Foundation, and a visiting research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies tenable at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

I should like to thank the following for assistance: Professor Inis Claude, Professor John Garnett, Dr Keith Hamilton, the late Professor Agnes Headlam-Morley, Guy Jillings, Professor Ieuan John, Dr Clive Jones, the late Professor James Joll, James W. Leyerzapf, Professor Maldwyn Mills, Professor James Piscatori, Dr Brian Porter, Miss Pamela Porter, Miss Eilenud Rees, Professor William D. Rubinstein, and Ms Jacqueline Williams. The late Professor Harry Hearder was a constant source of encouragement throughout the writing of this book.

I am grateful to the library staffs of many institutions and archives for their expertise. In particular I should like to thank the following and, where appropriate, acknowledge permission to quote from collections in their custody: Churchill College, Cambridge, for the Attlee Papers; the British Library for the Oliver Harvey Diaries; the British Library of Political and Economic Science for the Dalton Papers; the Western Manuscripts Department of the Bodleian Library, and the Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford, for the Attlee Papers; the Guy W. Bailey Library, the University of Vermont, for Warren R. Austin and Ernest Gibson Jrs papers; the Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas; the Aldeman Library, University of Virginia, for Edward R. Stettinius Jr and J. Rives Childes collections; the Robert Muldrow Cooper Library, Clemson University, for the James F. Byrnes Papers; the George C. Marshall Library, Virginia Military Institute, for George C. Marshalls papers and other collections housed there; Princeton University Libraries; the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri; the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library; Georgetown University Library for the Robert F. Wagner Papers; the Library of Congress Manuscript Division; and the National Archives in Washington together with the National Records Centre at Suitland, Maryland. The staff of the Public Record Office, London, was always obliging and courteous; copyright material housed there appears by permission of Her Majestys Stationery Office. Mrs Chris. Chadwick, Mrs Kathy Hamilton, Peter James and the staff of the Hugh Owen Library, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth were willing and cheerful.

We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:

redrawn from map Israeli Settlement Outposts January 2002 by Jan de Jong from http://www.fmep.org, reprinted by permission of the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

In some instances we have been unable to trace the owners of copyright material, and we would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so.

I n most instances, for the readers convenience, I have preferred to use in this book the most familiar spelling of Arab and Hebrew names, as they appear in the general literature and journalism published in English, rather than attempt to achieve consistency, at the cost of recognizability, through a more systematic academic transliteration.

Source: Martin Gilbert. Redrawn from Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 7th Edition