The Arab-Israeli Conflict Escalates, 1957-1963: A Turning Point in the Arab States' Attitudes Towards the Palestinian Problem; Formulation of Arab Strategy in the Isaeli-Arab Conflict, 1964-1965: Prelude to the Six Day War; Failure of the Arab Plan for Diverting the River Jordan's Tributaries; The Rise of the Palestinians as a factor in the Arab-Israeli Conflict; The Fida'iyyun Organisations' Contribution to the Descent to the Six Day War; The Arab Military Build-Up; Nasir's Steps Toward the Six Day War: 13 May to 5 June 5 1967; In the Wake of the Six Day War; Conclusion: The Arab-Israeli Conflict between the Nakba and the Naksa --The Emergence of the New Palestinian National Movement.
Professor Moshe Shemesh teaches Middle Eastern studies at Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, and is a Senior research associate at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute, Sede Boker, Israel. His publications include books and articles on the ArabIsraeli conflict and the Palestinian national movement.
"A valuable contribution to the understanding of Arab politics in
the decade before the Six-Day War. Well-referenced and injecting
new Iraqi, Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese, and Palestinian documents
into the narrative, Shemesh's book challenges historians'
conventional wisdom... a necessary addition to any serious library
or scholar's bookshelf." --Middle East Quarterly
"Primarily utilizing Arab primary sources, Shemesh reconstructs the
history of the decade preceding the Six Day War between Israel on
one side and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria on the other. His reliance on
previously unexamined Arab sources leads him to a number of novel
conclusions, the most important of which include the notion that
the Sinai War (of October 1956) had exacerbated rather than
alleviated Arab-Israeli tensions and the Palestinian problem, that
Nasir of Egypt was rational in his preparations for the conflict
and that responsibility for the military fiasco is primarily
attributable to Egyptian Field Marshal Amer, that Egyptian
commitment to Palestinian self-determination was strong and not an
opportunistic fig leaf, that the emergence of Palestinian
nationalism was a major trigger for the conflict, that the defeat
of Arab forces in the war prompted the Arab states to decisively
turn towards political processes in order to resolve the conflict,
and that the Israeli seizure of the West Bank served to strengthen
the political regime of Jordan." --Reference & Research Book News
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