Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on Israel's most recent leaders
In the 1920s, hard-line Zionists developed the doctrine of the 'Iron Wall': negotiations with the Arabs must always be from a position of military strength, and only when sufficiently strong Israel would be able to make peace with her Arab neighbours.
This doctrine, argues Avi Shlaim, became central to Israeli policy; dissenters were marginalized and many opportunities to reconcile with Palestinian Arabs were lost. Drawing on a great deal of new material and interviews with many key participants, Shlaim places Israel's political and military actions under and uncompromising lens.
His analysis will bring scant comfort to partisans on both sides, but it will be required reading for anyone interested in this fascinating and troubled region of the world.
'The Iron Wall is strikingly fair-minded, scholarly, cogently reasoned and makes enthralling ... reading' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph
'Anyone wanting to understand the modern Middle East should start by reading this elegantly written and scrupulously researched book' Trevor Royle, Sunday Herald
'A milestone in modern scholarship of the Middle East' Edward Said
'Fascinating ... Shlaim presents compelling evidence for a revaluation of traditional Israeli history' Ethan Bronner, The New York Times Book Review
Avi Shlaim is Professor of International Relations at St. Antony's College, Oxford. His previous books include Collusion Across the Jordan (1988) and War and Peace in the Middle East (1995).
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'A milestone in modern scholarship of the Middle East' Edward Said
In the 1920s, Zionists developed the doctrine of the Iron Wall: negotiations with the Arabs must always be from a position of military strength. Drawing on new material and interviews with many key participants, Shlaim places Israel's political and military actions under an uncompromising lens. Now updated with a new preface and new chapters on Israel's most recent leaders, Iron Wall is a fresh and informed account of one of the world's most intractible conflicts of modern times.
'Anyone wanting to understand the modern Middle East should start by reading this elegantly written and scrupulously researched book' Trevor Royle, Sunday Herald
'Fascinating ... Shlaim presents compelling new evidence for a revaluation of traditional Israeli history' Ethan Bronner, The New York Times Book Review
'One of the best and most illuminating accounts of Arab-Israeli relations in years' Yaron Ezrahi, Foreign Affairs
'Highly readable ... the best, most comprehensive and generally fair-minded diplomatic history of the conflict yet published' Benny Morris, Journal of Palestine Studies
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