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Statecraft by Stealth : Secret Intelligence and British Rule in Palestine by Steven B. Wagner; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Statecraft by Stealth : Secret Intelligence and British Rule in Palestine about?
Britain relied upon secret intelligence operations to rule Mandatory Palestine. Statecraft by Stealth sheds light on a time in history when the murky triad of intelligence, policy, and security supported colonial governance. It emphasizes the role of the Anglo-Zionist partnership, which began during World War I and ended in 1939, when Britain imposed severe limits on Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine. Steven Wagner argues that although the British devoted considerable attention to intelligence gathering and analysis, they never managed to solve the basic contradiction of their rule: a dual commitment to democratic self-government and to the Jewish national home through immigration and settlement. As he deftly shows, Britain's experiment in Palestine shed all pretense of civic order during the Palestinian revolt of 1936–41, when the police authority collapsed and was replaced by a security state, created by army staff intelligence. That shift, Wagner concludes, was rooted in Britain's desire to foster closer ties with Saudi Arabia just before the start of World War II, and thus ended its support of Zionist policy. Statecraft by Stealth takes us behind the scenes of B
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Steven B. Wagner;
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9782019003968
- Category
- nonfiction