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Kimche, the veteran Middle East correspondent for the BBC and the London Evening Standard, was also privy to various private papers and secret minutes concerning Mideastern power politics during and after World War I, and again after the Six Day War. The result is an exciting and important book. It is also carelessly written and sometimes confusing. The most straightforward facts and interpretations begin with the 1915 War Councils and correspondence thereafter about the problem of dismantling the Turkish Empire, to which Palestine belonged. Enthralled by the exchanges' freedom from ""humbug and doubletalk,"" Kimche shows -- and this is his main theme -- how Arab-Zionist relations were always determined by the policies and politics of Western empires. While World War I lasted, the British toyed with the grand scheme of Kimche's hero, General Gilbert Clayton, whose Cairo bureau he compares with the CIA. Clayton hoped to make Palestine a strong binational ""buffer state"" through Zionist money and well-controlled Arab nationalism. Both Weizmann, the English Zionist, and the Hashemite Prince Hussein were eager to become British clients. But with military victory, the discovery of oil,

Who reads There Could Have Been Peace?

Author

Jon Kimche

Publisher

Dial Press

Published

1973

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction