1st Edition

De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews

By Raymond Aron Copyright 2004
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

The lives of Raymond Aron and Charles de Gaulle intersected at significant moments in twentieth-century history, though they differed on many issues during World War II and over the subsequent decades. Aron, for example, distinguished between the attitude and responsibility of the Vichy government and the French Nazi collaborators in Paris, unlike de Gaulle, who regarded anyone who obeyed Marshal... Read more

Introduction

Part I: The Press Conference

1. The Press Conference

2. The Age of Suspicion

Part II: During the Crisis

3. Sound of Arms in the Near East

4. Russia versus America

5. The Hour of Decision

6. Face to Face with Tragedy

7. How the War became Inevitable

8. The Tragic Ironies of History

9. Local Crisis or World Crisis?

10. Between Cabinets

11. Arms and Peace

12. Why?

13. Israel between War and Peace

14. A Diplomacy in Search of a Policy

15. Will the Arabs Agree to Negotiate?

16. Intervention of the Powers?

17. The UN in the Middle East Crisis

18. The UN and the Middle East Crisis

Part III: Before the Crisis

19. The Jews

20. The Jews and the State of Israel

Biography

Raymond Aron