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"The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades and terrorism, as well as a profound shattering of Palestinian Arab society. Its origins, and that of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict, are deeply rooted in Jewish-Arab confrontation and appropriation in Palestine. But the isolated occasions of violence during the British Mandate era (1920-48) suggest that the majority of Palestinian Arabs yearned to live and thrive in peaceful coexistence with the evolving Jewish national enterprise. So what was the real cause of the breakdown in relations between the two communities?" "In this book, Efraim Karsh tells the story from both the Arab and Jewish perspectives. He argues that from the early 1920s onward, corrupt and extremist leaders sought vigorously to protect their own interests against the Jewish national revival. Karsh has mined many of the Western, Soviet, UN and Israeli documents declassified over the past decade, as well as unfamiliar Arab sources, to reveal what happened behind the scenes on both the Palestinian and Jewish si

Who reads Palestine Betrayed?

Author

Efraim Karsh

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300172348

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

3.73 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14