The encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli conflict : a political, social, and military history /

The first general reference covering the centuries-old conflict that continually threatens to ignite the Middle East.

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Other Authors: Tucker, Spencer, 1937-, Roberts, Priscilla Mary, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2008]
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Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. A-F
  • List of entries
  • List of maps
  • Preface
  • General maps
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Aaronsohn, Aaron
  • Aaronsohn, Sarah
  • Abbas, Abu
  • Abbas, Mahmoud
  • Abd al-Hadi, Awni
  • Abdel-Rahman, Omar
  • Abdulhamid II, Sultan
  • Abdullah, King of Saudi Arabia
  • Abdullah I, King of Jordan
  • Abed Rabbo, Yasser
  • Abu Nidal
  • Abu Sharah, Naif
  • Acheson, Dean
  • Achille Lauro hijacking
  • Adan, Avraham
  • Adenauer, Konrad
  • Administrative detentions
  • Agranat, Shimon
  • Agranat Commission
  • Agriculture
  • Agudat Israel Party
  • Aircraft, Bombers
  • Aircraft, Electronic warfare
  • Aircraft, Fighters
  • Aircraft, Helicopters
  • Aircraft, Kfir fighter
  • Aircraft, Reconnaissance
  • Aircraft, Transport
  • Airpower, Role in the Arab-Israeli Wars
  • Akko, Israel
  • Al-Aqsa Mosque
  • Al-Aqsa Mosque Massacre
  • Al-Birch
  • Al Jazeera
  • Al-Mawasi
  • Al Qaeda
  • Al-Saiqa
  • Albright, Madeleine
  • Algeria
  • Algiers Agreement
  • Algiers Declaration
  • Aliya, First
  • Aliya, Second
  • Aliya, Third
  • Aliya, Fourth
  • Aliya, Fifth
  • Aliya Bet
  • Aliya Hadasha
  • All Palestine Government
  • Allenby, Sir Edmund Henry Hynman
  • Allon, Yigal
  • Allon Plan
  • Altalena Incident
  • Amer, Abdel Hakim
  • American Israel Public Affairs Committee
  • American Jewish Committee
  • American Jewish Conference
  • American Jewish Congress
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • American Palestine Committee
  • Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
  • Anglo-Egyptian Treaty
  • Anglo-Jordanian Defense Treaty
  • Anielwicz, Mordecai
  • Anti-Arab Attitudes and Discrimination
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Antitank weapons
  • Antonius, George
  • Aoun, Michel
  • Aqaba, Gulf of
  • Aqr, Mamudh al-
  • Arab Economic Boycott of Israel
  • Arab Higher Committee
  • Arab-Jewish Communal War
  • Arab League
  • Arab Legion
  • Arab Liberation Army
  • Arab nationalism
  • Arab Nationalist Movement
  • Arab oil embargo
  • Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 - Arab Revolt of 1936-1939
  • Arab riots, Jerusalem
  • Arab socialism
  • Arabah
  • Arafat, Yasser
  • Archaeological sites and projects
  • Arens, Moshe
  • Arif, Arif al-
  • Armored personnel carriers
  • Armored Warfare Doctrine
  • Arms sales, International
  • Artillery
  • Artillery, Antiaircraft
  • Ashkenazic Judaism
  • Ashrawi, Hanan Mikhail
  • Assad, Bashar al-
  • Assad, Hafez al-
  • Assimilation
  • Aswan High Dam Project
  • Attlee, Clement Richard
  • Attrition, War of
  • Avukah
  • Azzam Pasha, Abdel Rahman
  • Baath Party (Syria)
  • Baathism
  • Baghdad Pact
  • Baker, James Addison, III
  • Baker Plan
  • Baldat al-Shaykh Massacre
  • Balfour, Arthur James
  • Balfour Declaration
  • Baltim, Battle of
  • Bangalore torpedo
  • Bar-Ilan, Meir
  • Bar Kokhba
  • Bar-Lev, Chaim
  • Bar-Lev Line
  • Barak, Ehud
  • Barghuti, Marwan
  • Basle Program
  • Bedouin
  • Beersheba
  • Begin, Menachem
  • Beilin, Yossi
  • Beirut
  • Beit Sheʼan Valley
  • Bekáa Valley
  • Bel-Gal, Avigdor
  • Belkovsky, Zvi
  • Ben-Ari, Uri
  • Ben-Gurion, David
  • Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak
  • Bernadotte, Folke
  • Bethlehem
  • Bevin, Ernest
  • Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
  • Bialik, Haim Nachman
  • Bible
  • Biltmore Program
  • Bilu
  • Biological weapons and warfare
  • Black September
  • Black September Organization
  • Bʼnai Bʼrith
  • Bombs, Gravity
  • Bombs, Precision-guided
  • Border war
  • Boutros-Ghali, Boutros
  • Brandeis, Louis Dembitz
  • Brandt, Willy
  • Brenner,m Joseph Hayyim
  • Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich
  • Bʼriha
  • Brodetsky, Selig
  • Brzezinski, Zbigniew
  • Bull, Gerald Vincent
  • Bunche, Ralph Johnson
  • Burma Road
  • Bush, George Herbert Walker
  • Bush, George Walker
  • Cadogan, Alexander George Montagu
  • Cairo Accord
  • Cairo Agreement
  • Cairo Declaration, Palestine Liberation Organization
  • Camp David Accords
  • Carmel, Moshe
  • Carter, James Earl, Jr.
  • Chamberlain, Joseph
  • Chamoun, Camille
  • Chancellor, Sir John Robert
  • Chemical weapons and warfare
  • China, People's Republic of, Middle East Policy
  • Chinese Farm, Battle of the
  • Church of the Holy Sepulcher
  • Church of the Nativity
  • Churchill, Sir Winston
  • Climate of the Middle East
  • Clinton, William Jefferson
  • Committee of Jewish Delegations at the Peace Conference
  • Communist Party of Israel
  • Conscription policies
  • Copenhagen Bureau
  • Creech Jones, Arthur
  • Cunningham, Sir Alan Gordon
  • Cyprus
  • Czechoslovakia, Middle East policy
  • Dahlan, Muhammad Yusuf
  • Daoud, Muhammad
  • Darwish, Mahmoud
  • Dayan, Moshe
  • Dead Sea
  • Decolonization
  • Deedes, Sir Wyndham
  • Defensive Shield, Operation
  • Degania, Battle for the
  • De Gaulle, Charles
  • Deir Yassin massacre
  • Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
  • Der Judenstaat
  • Desalination
  • Diaspora
  • Dimona, Israel
  • Dome of the Rock
  • Dreyfus Affair
  • Druze
  • Dubnow, Simon Meyervich
  • Dulles, John Foster
  • East Africa Scheme
  • Eban, Abba Solomon
  • Eden, Robert Anthony
  • Egypt
  • Egypt, Armed Forces
  • Egyptian-Soviet Arms Deal
  • Eichmann, Karl Adolf
  • Eilat, Israel
  • Eilat sinking
  • Einstein, Albert
  • Eisenhower, Dwight David
  • Eitan, Rafael
  • El Arish
  • El Arish Scheme
  • Elazar, David
  • ElBaradei, Mohamed
  • El Hassan bin Talal, Prince
  • Emancipation of the Jewish population
  • Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs
  • Entebbe Hostage Rescue
  • Eshkol, Levi
  • European Union and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • Exodus incident
  • Expellees and refugees, Palestinian
  • Ezra and Nehemia, Operation
  • Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia
  • Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia
  • Faisal I, King of Iraq
  • Faisal II, King of Iraq
  • Falwell, Jerry
  • Farouk I, King of Egypt
  • Fatah
  • Fatwa
  • Fayruz
  • Fayyad, Salam
  • Fadayeen
  • Film and the Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Fortifications
  • France, Middle East policy
  • Franco-Lebanese Treaty
  • Franco-Syrian Treaty
  • Index
  • v. 2. G-O
  • List of entries
  • List of maps
  • General maps
  • Galilee
  • Galut nationalism
  • Gamaat Islamiya
  • Ganzouri, Kamal al-
  • García Granados, Jorgé
  • Gaza Raid
  • Gaza Strip
  • Gaza Strip disengagement
  • General Intelligence Agency, Palestinian
  • Genesis, Book of
  • Geneva Accord
  • Geneva Peace Conference
  • Geography of the Middle East
  • Germany, Federal Republic of, Middle East policy
  • Giddi Pass
  • Glubb, Sir John Bagot
  • Gog and Magog
  • Golan Heights
  • Goldmann, Nahum
  • Gonen, Shmuel
  • Green Line
  • Gur, Mordechai
  • Ha-Avara
  • Habash, George
  • Habib, Philip
  • Hadassah
  • Haganah
  • Haifa
  • Halukka
  • Hamas
  • Hammarskjöld, Agne Carl Dag Hjalmar
  • Hanit, Attack on the
  • Haniyeh, Ismail
  • Hapoel Hatzair
  • Haram al-Sharif
  • Haredim
  • Harel, Isser
  • Hashemites
  • Hashomer
  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Haskalah
  • Hasmonean Tunnel incident
  • Hassan II, King of Morocco
  • Havlaga
  • Hawatmeh, Nayef
  • Hawi, Khalil
  • Hebron
  • Hebron Massacre
  • Hebron Mosque Massacre
  • Hebron Protocol
  • Hehalutz movement
  • Herzl, Theodor
  • Herzog, Chaim
  • Hess, Moses
  • Hezbollah
  • Histadrut
  • Hod, Mordechai
  • Hofi, Yitzhak
  • Holocaust
  • Hope-Simpson Report
  • Hoveve Zion
  • Hrawi, Elias
  • Hula Valley
  • Hussein, King of Jordan
  • Hussein, Saddam - Hussein ibn Ali, Sharif of Mecca
  • Husseini, Haj Amin al-
  • Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia
  • Imam
  • Immigration to Palestine/Israel
  • Improvised explosive devices
  • International Red Cross
  • Intifada, First
  • Intifada, Second
  • Iran
  • Iran, Armed Forces
  • Iran,-Iraq War
  • Iraq
  • Iraq, Armed Forces
  • Iraq War
  • Irgun Tsvai Leumi
  • Islamic Jihad, Palestinian
  • Islamic Movement in Israel
  • Ismail Ali, Ahmad
  • Israel
  • Israel, Arab population in
  • Israel Defense Forces
  • Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty
  • Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty
  • Israeli air strike on presumed Syrian nuclear facility
  • Israeli air strikes beginning the Six-Day War
  • Israeli Security Fence
  • Israeli War of Independence, Israeli-Egyptian Front
  • Israeli War of Independence, Israeli-Iraqi Front
  • Israeli War of Independence, Israeli-Lebanese Front
  • Israeli War of Independence, Israeli-Syrian Front
  • Israeli War of Independence, Overview
  • Israeli War of Independence, Truce Agreements
  • Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades
  • Jabotinsky, Vladimir Yevgenyevich
  • Jackson-Vanik Amendment
  • Jadid, Salah al-
  • Jamal Pasha, Ahmad
  • Jarring, Gunnar
  • Jarring Mission
  • Jenin
  • Jericho
  • Jericho Conference
  • Jerusalem
  • Jerusalem, Old City of
  • Jewish Agency for Israel
  • Jewish Brigade
  • Jewish Defense League
  • Jewish Legion
  • Jewish National Fund
  • Jihad
  • John Paul II, Pope
  • Johnson, Lyndon Baines
  • Jordan
  • Jordan, Armed Forces
  • Jordan River
  • Kadima Party
  • Kaffiyeh
  • Karf Qasim Massacre
  • Kahane, Meir David
  • Karameh, Battle of
  • Katsav, Moshe
  • Katyusha Rocket
  • Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
  • Khalaf, Salah
  • Khaled, Leila
  • Khalid, Hasan
  • Khan Yunis
  • Khartoum Resolution
  • Khatib, Anwar al-
  • Khatib, Rawhi al-
  • Khomeini, Ruhollah
  • Khrushchev, Nikita
  • Kibbutz movement
  • Kisch, Frederick Hermann
  • Kishinev Pogrom
  • Kissinger, Henry Alfred
  • Knesset
  • Kollek, Theodor
  • Kook, Abraham Isaac
  • Koran
  • Kosygin, Alexei
  • Kreisky, Bruno
  • Kurds
  • Kuwait
  • Kuwait, Armed Forces
  • Labor Party
  • Labor Zionism
  • Lahoud, Émile Jamil
  • Lake Kinneret
  • Land Day
  • Land rights and disputes
  • Laskov, Haim
  • Latakia, Battle of
  • Latrun, Battles of
  • Lavon Affair
  • Law of return
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward
  • League of Nations Covenant, Article 22
  • Lebanon
  • Lebanon, Armed Forces
  • Lebanon, Civil War in
  • Lebanon, Israeli invasion of
  • Lebanon, Israeli operations against
  • Lebanon, Israeli Security Zone in
  • Lebanon, U.S. interventions in
  • Levy, David
  • Liberty incident
  • Libya
  • Likud Party
  • Lipsky, Louis
  • Litani, Operation
  • Literary Club
  • Literature of the Arab-Israeli Wars
  • Livni, Tzipi
  • Lloyd, John Selwyn
  • Lobbies, Arab
  • Lod Airport massacre
  • Lohamei Herut Israel
  • London Round Table Conference
  • Machine guns
  • Macmillan, Maurice Harold
  • Madrid Conference
  • Magic Carpet, Operation
  • Mahfouz, Naguib
  • Mahmud, Muhammad Sidqi
  • Makleff, Mordechai
  • Mandler, Avraham Albert
  • Mapam Party
  • Marcus, David
  • Maritime policies and restrictions
  • Marshall, George Catlett
  • Masada
  • Masada, Jewish Student Organization
  • Masada2000.org
  • Masri, Munib al-
  • McGonagle, William Loren
  • McMahon-Hussein correspondence
  • Mecca
  • Medina
  • Meir, Golda
  • Meretz
  • Merkava tank
  • Middle East Regional Defense organizations
  • Mines and mine warfare, Land
  • Mines and mine warfare, Sea
  • Minsk Conference
  • Missiles, Air-to-air
  • Missiles, Air-to-surface
  • Missiles, Cruise
  • Missiles, Intermediate-range ballistic
  • Missiles, Surface-to-air
  • Mitla Pass
  • Mizrahi Judaism
  • Mollet, Guy
  • Molotov cocktail
  • Montefiore, Sir Moses
  • Morocco
  • Morrison-Grady Plan
  • Moses, Operation
  • Moshavim
  • Mossad
  • Mount Scopus
  • Mubarak, Hosni
  • Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
  • Mushin, Zuhayr
  • Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai
  • Munich Olympic Games
  • Murphy, Robert Daniel
  • Musa, Amr Mahmoud
  • Music
  • Muslim Brotherhood
  • Mwawi, Ahmad Ali al-
  • Nabhani, Taqu al-din al-
  • Nablus
  • Nachshon, Operation
  • Naguib, Mohammad
  • Nahariya
  • Nahr al Bared Refugee Camp, Siege of
  • Narkiss, Uzi
  • Nashashibi, Fakhri al-
  • Nashashibi, Raghib
  • Nasrallah, Hassan
  • Nasser, Gamal Abdel
  • National Democratic Party
  • National Progressive Front
  • National Security Forces, Palestinian
  • Nazareth
  • Negev Desert
  • Nehru, Jawaharlal
  • Netanyahu, Benjamin
  • Netanyahu, Jonathan
  • New Wafd Party
  • Nile River
  • Nixon, Richard Milhous
  • Nordau, Max
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Oil as an economic weapon
  • Oliphant, Laurence
  • Olmert, Ehud
  • Organization of petroleum exporting countries
  • Osiraq Raid
  • Oslo Accords
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Oz, Amos
  • Index
  • v. 3. P-Z
  • List of entries
  • List of maps
  • General maps
  • Pale of settlement
  • Palestine, British Mandate for
  • Palestine, Partition of
  • Palestine, Pre-1918 history of
  • Palestine Executive Committee
  • Palestine Liberation Army
  • Palestine Liberation Front
  • Palestine Liberation Organization
  • Palestine Liberation Organization Phased Plan
  • Palestine National Fund
  • Palestinian Authority
  • Palestinian Christians
  • Palestinian elections of 2006
  • Palestinian General Security Services
  • Palestinian Legislative Council
  • Palestinian National Charter
  • Palestinian National Council
  • Palestinian Refugee Camp
  • Palestinian Special Security Force
  • Palmach
  • Pan-Arab Congress
  • Pan-Arabism
  • Patria, Destruction of
  • Patriot Missile System
  • Patterson, John Henry
  • Peace movements
  • Peel Commission
  • Peled, Elad
  • Peres, Shimon
  • Persian Gulf War
  • Pineau, Christian
  • Pistols
  • Pius XII, Pope
  • Pogroms
  • Pollard, Jonathan
  • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
  • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
  • Port Said
  • Presidential Security, Palestinian
  • Preventive Security Organization, Palestinian
  • Project Babylon
  • Promised land
  • Qabbani, Nizar
  • Qaddafi, Muammar
  • Qassam, Izz al-Din al-
  • Qassam Rocket
  • Qassem, Abdul Karim
  • Qawuqji, Fawzi al-
  • Qibya massacre
  • Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Qurei, Ahmed Ali Mohammed
  • Quwatli, Shukri al-
  • Rabat Summit
  • Rabin, Yitzhak
  • Rafah Tunnels
  • Ramallah
  • Ramla
  • Rantisi, Abd al-Aziz
  • Reagan, Ronald Wilson
  • Reagan Plan
  • Red Sea
  • Reform Judaism and Zionism
  • Religious sites in the Middle East, Christian
  • Religious sites in the Middle East, Jewish
  • Religious sites in the Middle East, Muslim
  • Reshef-Class Guided-Missile Boat
  • Restoration movement
  • Revisionist Zionism
  • Reza Pahlavi, Mohammad, Shah of Iran
  • Rice, Condoleezza
  • Rifles
  • Right of return, Palestinian
  • Rogers, William Pierce
  • Rogers Plan
  • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
  • Rothschild, Edmond de
  • Sabra and Shatila Massacre
  • Sadat, Anwar
  • Sadeh, Yitzhak
  • Said, Edward
  • Said, Nuri al-
  • Samaritans
  • Samu Raid, West Bank
  • Samuel, Sir Herbert Louis
  • San Remo Conference
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia, Armed Forces
  • Saudi King as custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
  • Sayeret Matkal
  • Sephardic Judaism
  • Settlements, Israeli
  • Shaath, Nabil
  • Shaba farms
  • Shafi, Haidar Abdel
  • Shakur, Yusuf bin Raghib
  • Shallah, Ramadan Abdullah
  • Shamir, Yitzhak
  • Shammout, Ismail
  • Shara, Farouk al-
  • Sharett, Moshe
  • Sharm al-Sheikh
  • Sharon, Ariel
  • Shas
  • Shaw Commission
  • Shazar, Shneur Zalman
  • Shazly, Saas el-
  • Shia Islam
  • Shin Bet
  • Shiqaqu, Fathi
  • Shishakli, Adib al-
  • Shomron, Dan
  • Shultz, George Pratt
  • Shultz Plan
  • Sidqi, Atif
  • Sinai
  • Sinai Campaign
  • Sinai 1 and Sinai 2 Agreements
  • Siniura, Fuad
  • Siniura, Hanna
  • Six-Day War
  • Smilansky, Yizhar
  • Smuts, Jan Christian
  • Sokolow, Nahum
  • Somoa Raid
  • South Lebanon Army
  • Soviet Jews, Immigration to Israel
  • Soviet Union and Russia, Middle East policy
  • Special night squads
  • Spector, Yiftah
  • Stalin, Joseph
  • Star of David
  • Stern, Avraham
  • Strait of Tiran Crisis
  • Straits of Tiran
  • Submarines
  • Suez Canal
  • Suez Crisis
  • Suicide bombings
  • Summer Rains, Operation
  • Sykes-Picot Agreement
  • Syria
  • Syria, Armed Forces
  • Tal, Israel
  • Talmud
  • Tammuz I reactor
  • Tank warfare
  • Tanks
  • Tel Aviv-Jaffa
  • Terrorism
  • Tiberias
  • Tlass, Mustafa
  • Tnuat Hamoshavim
  • Tomb of the Patriarchs
  • Tripartite Declaration
  • Truman, Harry S.
  • Trumpeldor, Joseph
  • Tschlenow, Yehiel
  • Tsomet
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey, Middle East policy
  • Turkmani, Hassan al-
  • U Thant
  • United Arab Republic
  • United Jewish Appeal
  • United Kingdom, Middle East policy
  • United Nations, Role of
  • United nations Charter, Articles 41 and 42
  • United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
  • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  • United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194
  • United Nations Palestine Partition Plan
  • United Nations Peacekeeping Missions
  • United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 338
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559
  • United Nations Special Commission on Palestine
  • United States, Middle East policy
  • United States Coordinating and Monitoring Mission
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles
  • Ussishkin, Menahem
  • Valley of Tears, Battle of the
  • Vanunu, Mordechai
  • Vatican, Relations with Zionism and Israel
  • Wahhabism
  • Waqf
  • Warburg, Otto
  • Ward, William E.
  • Warships, Surface
  • Water rights and resources
  • Wauchope, Sir Arthur Grenfell
  • Wazir, Khalil al-
  • Weinberger, Caspar
  • Weizman, Ezer
  • Weizmann, Chaim
  • West Bank
  • Western Wall
  • White Paper (1922)
  • White Paper (1930)
  • White Paper (1939)
  • Wilson, Thomas Woodrow
  • Wingate, Orde Charles
  • Wise, Isaac Mayer
  • Wolf, John Stern
  • Wolffsohn, David
  • Woodhead Report
  • World Jewish Congress
  • World War I, Impact of
  • World War II, Impact of
  • World Zionist Organization
  • World Zionist Organization Executive
  • Wye River Agreement
  • Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
  • Yadin, Yigal
  • Yassin, Ahmed Ismail
  • Yemen
  • Yemen Civil War
  • Wesh Gvul
  • Yesha Council
  • Yoffe, Avraham
  • Yom HaShoah ve ha-Gevurah
  • Yom Kippur War
  • Young Israel
  • Youth Aliya
  • Yusuf, Hasan
  • Zaim, Husni al-
  • Zayyad, Tawfiq
  • Zinni, Anthony
  • Zion Mule Corps
  • Zionism
  • Zionist Conference
  • Zionist/Israeli socialism
  • Zionist Organization of America
  • Air Force ranks
  • Army ranks
  • Navy ranks
  • Country profiles
  • Chronology
  • Glossary
  • Selected bibliography
  • List of editors and contributors
  • Index
  • v. 4. Documents
  • List of documents
  • Documents
  • Index.