Gilbert Martin - The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

THE ROUTLEDGE ATLAS OF THE ARABISRAELI CONFLICT A POWERFUL VISUAL HISTORY OF THE
ARABISRAELI CONFLICT Because the cartographic format of the book is so straightforward, readers of any level of sophistication or interest can benefit. An excellent primer. Library Journal Each map includes precise explanatory data. A basic appendage to any analysis of Middle East history and politics. Middle East Review This is a very thorough history. The great advantage of presenting history through maps is the unusual clarity it brings to the most complex issues.

I would recommend that anyone troubled by the conflicting claims of both sides in this bitter struggle study the book closely. Just look and youll learn a lot, without polemics or manifestos to confuse the issue. Jerusalem Post MagazineThe Routledge Atlas of the ArabIsraeli Conflict traces the tangled and sometimes bitter history of the ArabJewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present. It also illustrates the current moves towards finding peace, and the efforts to bring the conflict to an end through negotiation and agreed boundaries. In 227 maps, the evolving history of the conflict is graphically portrayed, including: The prelude and background to the conflict from the presence of Jews in Palestine before the Arab conquest to the attitude of Britain to the Arabs and Jews since 1915 The Jewish national home from the early Jewish settlements and the Zionist plan for Palestine in 1919 to the involvement of the Arab world from 1945 to the present day The intensification of the conflict from the Arab response to the United Nations partition plan of November 1947 to the declaration of Israeli independence in May 1948 The State of Israel from the Israeli War of Independence and the Suez and Six Day Wars to the October War (the Yom Kippur War), the first and second Intifadas, the suicidebomb campaign, the IsraelHezbollah War of 2006, Operation Cast Lead against the Gaza Strip in 2009, the Gaza Flotilla of 2010 and Nakba Day 2011 The moves to find peace from the first and second Camp David talks and the death of Yasser Arafat to the continuing search for peace, including the Annapolis Conference, 2007, the work of the Quartet Emissary Tony Blair, 20072011, and the ongoing Palestinian search for statehood. Sir Martin Gilbert is one of the leading historians of the modern world.

An Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford of which he was a fellow for thirty years he is the official biographer of Churchill and the author of eighty-four books, among them Churchill: A Life and Israel: A History. For more information please visit www.martingilbert.com BOOKS BY MARTIN GILBERT The Routledge Atlas of American History The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict The Routledge Atlas of British History The Routledge Atlas of the First World War The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust The Appeasers (with Richard Gott) The European Powers, 19001945 The Roots of Appeasement Childrens Illustrated Bible Atlas Atlas of British Charities The Holocaust: Maps and Photographs The Jews of Arab Lands: Their History in Maps The Jews of Russia: Their History in Maps Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century Exile and Return: The Struggle for Jewish Statehood Israel: A History The Story of Israel Auschwitz and the Allies The Jews of Hope: The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction The Boys: Triumph over Adversity The First World War Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War THE CHURCHILL BIOGRAPHY Volume III: The Challenge of War, 19141916 Document Volume III (in two parts) Volume IV: World in Torment, 19171922 Document Volume IV (in three parts) Volume V: The Coming of War, 19221939 Document Volume V: The Exchequer Years,19221929 Document Volume V: The Wilderness Years,19291935 Document Volume V: The Coming of War,19361939 EDITIONS OF DOCUMENTS Britain and Germany between the Wars Plough My Own Furrow: The Life of Lord Allen of Hurtwood Servant of India: Diaries of the Viceroys Private Secretary, 19051910 The Routledge Historical Atlas of Jerusalem The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History The Routledge Atlas of Russian History The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War The Second World War D-Day The Day the War Ended Empires in Conflict: A History of the Twentieth Century, 19001933 Descent into Barbarism: A History of the Twentieth Century, 19341951 Challenge to Civilization: A History of the Twentieth Century, 19521999 Never Again: A History of the Holocaust The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust In Ishmaels House: the 1,400-Year History of Jews under Muslim Rule In Search of Churchill Churchill and America Churchill and the Jews The Will of the People: Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy Volume VI: Finest Hour, 19391941 Churchill War Papers I: At the Admiralty,September 1939May 1940 Churchill War Papers II: Never Surrender,MayDecember 1940 Churchill War Papers III: The Ever-Widening War, 1941 Volume VII: Road to Victory, 19411945 Volume VIII: Never Despair, 19451965 Churchill: A Photographic Portrait Churchill: A Life Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary of Avraham Tory Winston Churchill and Emery Reves:Correspondence 19371964 THE ROUTLEDGE ATLAS OF THE ARABISRAELI CONFLICT 10th Edition Martin Gilbert Tenth edition published 2012 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business 2012 Martin Gilbert The right of Martin Gilbert to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. p. cm. 1. 1.

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Title: Atlas of the ArabIsraeli conflict. G2236.S1G52 2012 911'.56dc23 2011044185 ISBN: 978-0-415-69975-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-69976-1 (pbk) Preface to the tenth edition In this atlas I have traced the history of the ArabJewish conflict from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. I have tried to show something of the nature and range of the conflict, of the types of incidents that it provoked, and of the views of those involved in it. Many of the maps in this atlas depict wars, conflict and violence, which have brought terrible suffering to all those caught up in them Jew and Arab, Israeli and Palestinian, soldier and civilian, adult and child. But there are also maps that show the various attempts to bring the conflict to an end, through proposals for agreed boundaries, through the signing of cease-fire agreements, and through negotiations. No maps can show how peace will come, but they do show how much it is needed.

The origins and earlier course of the conflict are often overshadowed in the public mind by the events of the past decade. It is my hope that, seen as a whole, this atlas will help to clarify the conflict throughout its long span. Thirty-seven years have passed since the first edition of this atlas was published in the immediate aftermath of the October War of 1973. At that time I was by chance in Israel, and witnessed, for one day, the fighting on the Golan Heights. Since then, two wars in Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, suicide bombings, terror, targeted assassinations, the continuing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Israeli settlement building there, the rule of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the rockets fired from Gaza, the Security Barrier (The Wall), and an integral part of daily discourse a belief by many on both sides that the other side does not want peace, have become the harsh realities of the ArabIsraeli conflict. The twenty-two new maps in this edition deal in equal measure with the continuing conflict, and the ongoing, if sometimes halting, efforts to resolve it.