1st Edition

The Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1956–1975 From Violent Conflict to a Peace Process

By Moshe Gat Copyright 2018
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

The Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1956–1975 contains a collection of articles that examine select issues between the end of the Suez Campaign in November 1956 and the Sinai II, or Interim Agreement, signed by Israel and Egypt in September 1975. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the struggle between the three superpowers – the UK, the United States and the Soviet Union – and the effects... Read more

Introduction

1. Anatomy of decline: Anglo-Soviet competition in the Middle East, 1956–1967

2. On the use of air power and its effect on the outbreak of the Six Day War

3. Retaliatory raids as an accelerating factor leading to the Six Day War

4. Let someone else do the job: American policy on the Eve of the Six Day War

5. Levi Eshkol: an Israeli leader in the years leading to the Six Day War

6. Nasser and the Six Day War, 5 June 1967: a premediated strategy or an inexorable drift to war?

7. Britain and Israel before and after the Six Day War, June 1967: from support to hostility

8. Military Power and Foreign Policy Inaction: Israel, 1967–1973

9. Yitzhak Rabin, Ambassador to Washington, 1968–1973: a diplomat and policy-maker

10. Kissinger and the road to the Interim Agreement (Sinai II) between Israel and Egypt, September 1975

Biography

Moshe Gat is Professor Emeritus of Political Studies and European Modern History. He was formerly Head of History Department and Head of Political Studies Department at Bar Ilan University, Israel