Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim (; ; born 31 October 1945) is an Israeli and British historian of Iraqi Jewish descent. He is one of Israel's "New Historians", a group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel.Born in 1945, his family emigrated to Israel in 1951 during Operation Ezra and Nehemiah. He later moved to England in 1966 and studied and taught international relations at the University of Reading. He began studying the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 1982 when 1948 Arab–Israeli War archives where unclassified by the Israeli government, he has an extensive bibliography and contributed to various newspapers and publishers.
Shlaim’s scholarship has been praised by historians and commentators, including Norman Finkelstein, Benny Morris and Anne Irfan, especially for his use of newly available sources and reinterpretation of Israeli history, Zionism and Palestine. Others like Yoav Gelber, Joseph Heller and Efraim Karsh say his conclusions reflect political bias that leads to flaws in his methodology and interpretation. Provided by Wikipedia
The Iron wall : Israel and the Arab world /
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Conents: The emergence of Israel 1947-1949 -- Consolidation 1949-1953 -- Attempts at accommodation 1953-1955 -- The road to Suez 1955-1957 -- The alliance of the periphery 1957-1963 -- Poor little Samson 1963-1969 -- Immobilism 1969-1974 -- Disengagement 1974-1977 -- Peace with Egypt 1977-1981 -- The Lebanese quagmire 1981-1984 -- Political paralysis 1984-1988 -- Stonewalling 1988-1992 -- The breakthrough 1992-1995 -- The setback 1995-1996 -- Back to the Iron Wall 1996-1998. :
xxxi, 670 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [633]-642) and index. :
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