The Limits of the Land: How the Struggle for the West Bank Shaped the Arab-Israeli Conflict

343 Pages·2017·4.84 MB·English

by  Avshalom Rubin

THE LIMITS OF THE LAND
Perspectives on Israel Studies
S. Ilan Troen, Natan Aridan, Donna Divine,
David Ellenson, and Arieh Saposnik, editors
Sponsored by the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism
of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Schusterman Center for
Israel Studies of Brandeis University
THE LIMITS OF
THE L AND
How the Struggle for the West Bank
Shaped the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Avshalom Rubin
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations ix
Note on Transliteration xi
Note on Sources xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
chapter 1 Partition’s Inheritance: The Making of the Israeli-
Jordanian Entente, 1949–1962 9
chapter 2 The Jordanian Crisis of 1963 and Its
Consequences 49
chapter 3 A Status Quo Settlement? 1964–1965 74
chapter 4 Louder than a Bomb: Israel, Jordan, and the
Palestinians, 1964–1966 105
chapter 5 Partition’s Undoing: The End of the Israeli-
Jordanian Entente, 1967 140
chapter 6 The Harvest of War, June–November 1967 177
chapter 7 A Chance for Peace? 1968 211
chapter 8 The Jordanian Civil War and the Seeds of
Disengagement, 1969–1970 248
Conclusion 289
Sources 293
Index 306

ABBREVIATIONS
AECID Abba Eban Centre for Israeli Diplomacy
AMAN Intelligence Branch, Israel Defense Forces
BGA Ben-Gurion Archives
BNA British National Archives
CAB Cabinet Office
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
DDRS Declassified Documents Reference System
(electronic version)
DFPI Israel State Archives,
Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel
DNSA Digital National Security Archive
DOD Department of Defense
DOS Department of State
DOSCF Department of State Central Files
FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FM Foreign Ministry
FO Foreign Office
FRUS Department of State,
Foreign Relations of the United States
GRFL Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
IDF Israel Defense Forces
IDFA Israel Defense Forces Archives
IIL Israel Intelligence Library
INR Department of State,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
ISA Israel State Archives
JAA Jordan Arab Army
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
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