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ISRAEL &EGYPT

ISRAEL &IRAN

ISRAEL &JORDAN

ISRAEL &LEBANON

ISRAEL &LIBYA

ISRAEL &SYRIA

ISRAEL &THE USA

ISRAEL-PALESTINECONFLICT

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CONTENTSISRAEL & EGYPT 1

ISRAEL & IRAN 2

ISRAEL & JORDAN 2

ISRAEL & LEBANON 4

ISRAEL & LIBYA 5

ISRAEL & REGIONAL STUDIES 5

ISRAEL & SYRIA 8

ISRAEL & THE PEACE PROCESS 8

ISRAEL & THE USA 9

ISRAELI MILITARY STUDIES 10

ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT 15

ISRAEL'S ARAB CITIZENS 17

JERUSALEM 19

THE SIX DAY WAR 20

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MIDDLE EAST 21

ZIONISM & JEWISH IDENTITY 24

ISRAEL & EGYPT

EGYPT & THE SECOND PALESTINIAN INTIFADAPolicymaking with Multifaceted CommitmentsRami Ginat, Meir Noema

This study argues that Egypt's policy towards the second Intifada may best be understood byscrutinising several circles of reference that directly affected its policymaking processthroughout the long years of the bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These circles of referencecomprise interests and calculations derived from Egyptian internal issues; regional factors -Egypt's role and position in the Arab world in general, and its relations with the Palestinians inparticular; Egypt's relations with Israel; and its strategic ties with the United States. Thegrowing strength and the expansion of the global Islamic terrorist network that challenges thestability of the present Arab regimes constitutes a lynchpin at every layer.

It is based primarily on Egyptian sources as well as interviews and conversations with seniormembers of the Al-Ahram Center for Strategic Studies. It also draws on other primary andsecondary sources in Arabic, Hebrew and English. The book is essential reading for all scholarsinvolved and engaged with the Israel-Arab conflict.

HB 9781845193898 £35.00 May 2011 Sussex Academic Press 120 pages


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ISRAEL & IRAN

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKTHE RISE & FALL OF THE MOJAHEDIN KHALQ, 1987-1997Their Survival after the Islamic Revolution & Resistance to the IslamicRepublic of Iran Ronen A. Cohen

The Mojahedin Khalq Organisation is an Iranian political party that helped Khomeini’s religioussect in Iran bring about the Islamic revolution of 1979, after being at the forefront of oppositionto the rule of the Shah. However, as the revolution got underway the Mojahedin were sidelinedby the religious clerics and were expelled from the political arena. This book provides a detailedhistory of the Organization and its members, and addresses its complex relationship withwestern and international powers, most specifically the United States, in their endeavours toharness agreement to topple the Islamic Republic of Iran.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Dr Ronen A. Cohen is a lecturer at the Ariel University Center of

Samaria, Israel. His specialties include modern Iranian history and culture, Islamic terrorism,and clandestine international affairs.

HB 9781845192709 £65.00 September 2008 Sussex Academic Press 233 pagesPB 9781845196400 £27.50 December 2013 Sussex Academic Press 240 pages

ISRAEL & JORDAN

SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICEABDULLAH AL-TALL - ARAB LEGION OFFICERArab Nationalism & Opposition to the Hashemite Regime Ronen Yitzhak

This book reviews al-Tall's military-political biography during the years he served as an officer inthe Arab Legion and those he spent in political exile in Egypt. The purpose is to understand al-Tall's personality, his contribution to the success of the Arab Legion in the 1948 war, and hispart in the assassination of King Abdullah. A thorough survey of the historic background of thefounding of Jordan and the Arab Legion, the 1948 war, the rivalry between King Abdullah andKing Faruq, and the Egyptian-Jordanian struggle in the 1950s and 1960s, is provided. Primaryquestions to be answered include: What was Abdullah al-Tall's contribution to the success ofthe Arab Legion during the 1948 war? Did he engage in secret contacts with the Jews duringthe war, while at the same time denigrating them and praising Palestinian nationality? Was heinvolved in the assassination of King Abdullah, or was this a Jordanian conspiracy to slanderhim? What were his views vis-à-vis the tumultuous events in the Middle East in the 1950-1960s? And why was he allowed return to Jordan and take part in its political life after his exileto Egypt?

Ronen Yitzhak's book is based on books written by al-Tall himself and material located in Israeliarchives (the IDF, Haganah and Israel state archives), as well as the UK National Archives(London). In addition memoirs of prominent persons of the time, along with newspaper reportsand other general secondary material written in Arabic, Hebrew and English are utilised. Thisbook is essential reading for anybody engaged in the history of the Middle East and Israeli-Arabconflict.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Ronen Yitzhak is the Head of Middle Eastern Studies

Department at Western Galilee College in Acre, Israel. He is an expert in the 1948 war, Jordan,the Arab Legion and the Palestinians.

HB 9781845196622 £22.50 June 2012 Sussex Academic Press 196 pages


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SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICEISRAELI-JORDANIAN DIALOGUE, 1948-1953Cooperation, Conspiracy or Collusion? Yoav Gelber

This book is a refutation of Professor Avi Shlaim's theory of an alleged collusion between theJews and King Abdullah (Clarendon Press, 1998). Shlaim asserts that to further his own aims ofcreating a greater Jordanian empire, Abdullah conducted secret diplomacy with David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and other Israeli leaders in self-serving manoeuvres which hastened thepartition of Palestine, and left more than a million Palestinian Arabs without a homeland. Thisbook describes the development and vicissitudes of the relations between Israel and Jordanfrom the end of the British mandate and Transjordan's invasion of Palestine, through the war in1948, the resumption of a direct dialogue that led to an armistice agreement, the abortivepeace negotiations in 1949-51 and the simultaneous escalation of border hostilities.

The conclusion drawn is that this five-year period saw the apparent indifference of the GreatPowers to impose a settlement, a Jordan unsure of its place in the Arab fold, and a confusingsituation between Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians over border issues. Gelber finds noevidence of an alleged collusion between the Jews and king Abdullah -- just a tragic unfolding ofevents that inflamed the still unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Yoav Gelber is Professor of History at the University of Haifa

and Head of the Herzl Institute for Research and Study of Zionism.


THE POLITICAL LEGACY OF KING HUSSEINAlexander Bligh

This book uncovers the true force behind most of the political processes in the Middle East overalmost half a century. Through constant confrontations and negotiations with Israel and thePalestinians, under the watchful eye of the United States, the King managed to create a newMiddle Eastern nation-state: the Jordanian country and its people. The focus of the book isHussein’s deep concern for the future of the last Hashemite monarchy, together with his ownset of personal and ideological convictions, as they impacted on many of his strategic decisionsand their contribution to the formation of present-day Jordan.

HB 9781902210728 £49.95 January 2001 Sussex Academic Press 257 pagesPB 9781845192372 £19.95 March 2007 Sussex Academic Press 257 pages

THE SUPERPOWERS, ISRAEL & THE FUTURE OF JORDAN, 1960-63The Perils of the Pro-Nasser Policy Zaki Shalom

The book uses papers released from Israeli, British and US State Department archives - whichdemonstrate the thinking behind the diplomatic moves relating to the western powers'commitment to Jordan and the pro-Nasser policy of the Kennedy administration. The bookexamines Israeli efforts to preserve the stability of the Jordanian monarchy under King Hussein,as well as the territorial status quo between Israel and Jordan, in terms of the manoeuvrings ofpowerful factions in Israel to take advantage of the crisis so as to make territorial gains.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Zaki Shalom is a senior researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research

Center, Ben-Gurion University.

HB 9781902210148 £45.00 January 1999 Sussex Academic Press 181 pages


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WATER IN THE MIDDLE EASTCooperation & Technological Solutions in the Jordan ValleyK. David Hambright, F. Jamil Ragep, Joseph Ginat (Edited by)

"Water in the Middle East" presents historical and cross-cultural perspectives on water andconflict, prospects for future cooperation in the water arena among Middle Eastern countries,the political economy of water and technical solutions to water shortages in the Jordan Valley,and the relationships among water, agriculture, and environmental sustainability.

While this book highlights the complexities pertaining to regional water scarcity andinequitable distribution, the contributors offer no definitive conclusions or facile solutions; yetthere is a broad consensus that regional solutions to maximize water resources must bepursued even as desalination becomes more viable both from technical/economic standpoints.The continuing deterioration of existing water supplies in terms of quantity and qualitymandate that any solution must be achieved within a political/social framework of peace,enlightened economic policies, and the application of technical solutions that take due accountof environmental concerns.

HB 9781845192334 £19.95 November 2005 Sussex Academic Press 249 pages

ISRAEL & LEBANON

THE JEWS OF LEBANON: Between Coexistence & Conflict (Second Edition)Kirsten Schulze

This is the first book to tell the story of the Jews of Lebanon in the twentieth century. Itchallenges the prevailing view that Jews everywhere in the Middle East were second-classcitizens, and were persecuted after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The Jews ofLebanon were just one of Lebanon’s 23 minorities with the same rights and privileges, andsubject to the same political tensions. The author discusses the Jewish presence in Lebanonunder Ottoman Rule; Lebanese Jews under the French mandate; Lebanese Jewish identity afterthe establishment of the State of Israel; the increase of the community through Syrianrefugees; the Jews' position in the first civil war; their involvement in the exfiltration of SyrianJews; the beginning of their exodus after the 1967 War; the virtual extinction of the Jewishcommunity as a result of the prolonged 1975 second civil war and the 1982 Israeli invasion ofLebanon; and finally the community's memory of their Lebanese past.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Kirsten E. Schulze is Lecturer in International History at the

London School of Economics.

PB 9781845190576 £22.50 December 2008 Sussex Academic Press 237 pages

THE PALESTINIAN IMPASSE IN LEBANON: The Politics of Refugee IntegrationSimon Haddad

REVIEWS: "Haddad's research is a welcome addition to literature on Middle Eastern conflicts

and refugee studies in general. It highlights important interconnections between conflicts inneighbouring and supports a regional approach to understanding and resolving conflicts. At thesame time, Haddad provides a rare glimpse into political attitudes in Lebanon and his researchshould encourage more studies of this nature in the region."International Journal of Refugee Law. Vol. 17: No. 4 (December 2005)



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ISRAEL & LIBYA

THE JEWS OF LIBYA: Coexistence, Persecution, ResettlementMaurice M. Roumani

This book investigates the transformative period in the history of the Jews of Libya (1938-52), aperiod crucial to understanding Libyan Jewry's evolution into a community playing significantroles in Israel, Italy and in relation with Qaddhafi's Libya. Against a background of a reformconscious Ottoman administration (1835-1911) and subsequent stirrings of modernisationunder Italian colonial influence (1911-43), the Jews of Libya began to experience rapid changefollowing the application of fascist racial laws of 1938, the onset of war-related calamities andviolent expressions of Libyan pan-Arabism, culminating in mass migration to Israel in the period1949-52. By focusing on key socio-economic and political dimensions of this process, the authorreveals the capacity of Libyan Jewry to adapt to and integrate into new environments withoutlosing its unique and historical traditions.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Maurice M. Roumani, born in Benghazi, Libya, is a Senior

Lecturer in Political Sociology and the Middle East at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev inIsrael where he is also the founder and Director of the J.R. Elyachar Center for the Study ofSephardi Heritage.

REVIEWS: "Dr Roumani uses a wide range of archival and oral sources, many of which have

never been used before. Throughout the book, he reveals a mastery of the social and politicalhistory, and a fine understanding of the lives, hopes, fears and aspirations of Libyan Jews. Hisbook is a testimony to their suffering and their fortitude."From the Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert.

HB 9781845191375 £59.95 March 2008 Sussex Academic Press 310 pagesPB 9781845193676 £19.95 May 2009 Sussex Academic Press 310 pages

ISRAEL & REGIONAL STUDIES

ARAB POLITICAL DEMOGRAPHYPopulation Growth, Labor Migration & Natalist PoliciesOnn Winckler

Written specifically for classroom and student use, with over 35 tables and figures, this booksets out the political demographics of the Arab countries. In this revised and expanded secondedition, the author updates all the data; adds analysis on North African countries; and discussesthe phenomenon of intra-Arab labour migration and its socioeconomic-political impacts.

Revised & Expanded Second Edition

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Onn Winckler is Lecturer in the Department of Middle East

Studies at the University of Haifa.

REVIEWS: "This volume should be required reading for understanding the demographic

challenges the Arab World confronts to achieve much desired long-term economic growth andpolitical stability..." Regional Studies.

HB 9781845192389 £70.00 March 2009 Sussex Academic Press 328 pagesPB 9781845192402 £32.50 March 2009 Sussex Academic Press 328 pages


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MUSLIM ATTITUDES TO JEWS & ISRAELThe Ambivalences of Rejection, Antagonism, Tolerance & Co-operationMoshe Ma‘oz (Edited by)

Manifestations of hatred of Jews and Israel have risen over the last few decades in the Araband Muslim world. This hatred is demonstrated in many ways - from propaganda to terrorism.But is such hatred the result of Islamic anti-Semitism, as widely claimed? Or does it have otherroots and reasons?

This book sets the record straight by explaining that while anti-Semitism is the credo of fanaticgroups and regimes, such an attitude is not representative of traditional and contemporaryIslam. Muslim and Jewish scholars - from Azerbaijan, Egypt, India, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, theUSA, Palestine and Turkey - analyse the religious, cultural, political and economic factors thathave shaped Muslim attitudes to Jews and Israel. Ideas and suggestions are put forward toimprove Muslim-Jewish relations - the theme of which was first conceived at an internationalconference organised by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the DivinitySchool, Harvard University.

HB 9781845193225 £49.95 March 2010 Sussex Academic Press 326 pagesPB 9781845195274 £19.95 November 2011 Sussex Academic Press 256 pages

PERSPECTIVES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSYOP) IN CONTEMPORARYCONFLICTSEssays in Winning Hearts & Minds Ron Schleifer

This collection of essays provides analysis and commentary on: psychological warfare in thebattle against terrorism, PSYOP techniques adopted by different Palestinian groups againstIsrael and actions that promote the Palestinian cause in the West, Israeli strategies forcombating radical Islam, and Jewish perspectives on propaganda in the context of Israel'sinternational image problems. PSYOP - designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes ofindividuals, groups and foreign governments - is still considered confidential by many defenceorganisations, hence the lack of publications that deal with the topic in a scientific, factualapproach. Perspectives of PSYOP is a follow-on volume to the author's Psychological Warfare inthe Intifada, adopted in the US Intelligence College as a textbook, and widely reviewed tocritical acclaim.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Dr Ron Schleifer lectures at Bar Ilan University and IDF

Command College on communications and security issues.

HB 9781845194543 £45.00 March 2011 Sussex Academic Press 185 pagesPB 9781845195854 £19.95 April 2013 Sussex Academic Press 192 pages


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CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES TO THE NATION STATE:GLOBAL & ISRAELI PERSPECTIVES

VOLUME 1: NATIONALISM AND BINATIONALISMVOLUME 2: THE NATION STATE AND RELIGION: The Resurgence of FaithVOLUME 3: THE NATION STATE AND IMMIGRATION: The Age of PopulationMovements

Edited by Anita Shapira, Yedidia Stern, Alexander Yakobson

These three-volumes address key challenges facing the contemporary nation state from aglobal perspective but with special emphasis on the Middle East and Israel. Publication reflectsresearch conducted under the auspices of The Israel Democracy Institute’s “Nation StateProject”, which analyses Israel’s complex reality in which a Jewish majority contends with anArab minority, ultra-Orthodox religious forces reject the authority of the nation state, and animmigrant society exhibits substantial cultural and ethnic variance.

Volume I examines binationalism – a topic that has gained popularity in academic circles as apossible solution to the Israel/Palestine issue (though the historical experience of binationalismis discouraging) – from a theoretical point of view and from a practical angle, analyzing cases inwhich two ethnic groups or nations share one political system and govern it jointly. Somecontributors challenge the accepted notion of national unity in several countries, such asFrance and Germany; others consider the precedents of Belgium and Canada, and othercountries, which are considered as binational. The history of the binational concept in Israel isexplored and different opinions are presented on its future prospects: the idea of Israel withinthe borders of 1949 as a binational state, and the possibility of a binational state between theJordan River and the Mediterranean.

Volume II examines the role of religion in the nation state and the tension between nationalityand religion as it is expressed today in society, politics, law and culture. The book offers abroad-based and in-depth comparative look at this issue in relation to different religions(Christianity, Islam and Judaism) and relative to varied nation states (the United States, France,Canada, Pakistan, Turkey, Syria, and the Palestinian Authority). Special emphasis is given to theJewish nation state of Israel, where there is an ongoing struggle about the role of religion in thepublic sphere.

Volume III explores the cultural, social, and political effects of immigration on thecontemporary nation state – its character, cohesion, and possible future, as well as oncontemporary liberal democracy. Contributions deal with such issues as various liberalapproaches to the issue of immigration and immigrant integration, nation-building narrativesand their implications for immigrants and minorities, and citizenship tests and integrationpolicy in the United States and in Europe, as well as Israel’s Law of Return and the debate aboutit and other aspects of the country’s immigration policy.

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ISRAEL & SYRIA

SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICEASAD IN SEARCH OF LEGITIMACYMessage & Rhetoric in the Syrian Press Under Hafiz & Bashar Mordechai Kedar

The Syrian regime, ruled by the Ba'th socialist party and headed by presidents from the ‘Alawiminority, faces problems of legitimacy vis-à-vis its people, which it tackles through powerfulsecurity organizations and the state media. The government media machine exists to expressthe regime's viewpoint in both local and external spheres, and to promote acceptance of thelegitimacy of Asad’s presidency and government. The media also attempts to mobilize themasses to act in the service of the state by disseminating information which reflects Asad'sposition on current issues. The organs of the regime - army, party, security services, nationaland local authorities - are proclaimed as acting by order of the president. While personalcommitment to the legitimacy of Hafiz al-Asad is the principal 'article of faith', this message issupported by complementary messages - Asad being true to the Moslem faith; Asad as historicleader; Asad as the focus of identity of all Syrian citizens; the 'crimes' of the MoslemBrotherhood, etc. - and vociferous political discourse.


SYRIA & THE DOCTRINE OF ARAB NEUTRALISMFrom Independence to Dependence Rami Ginat

This book examines the modern history of post-mandatory Syria. The evolution of the Syrianideology and policy of neutralism since the early stages of the Cold War is explained, and theeffects that Arab neutralism had on shaping Syria's foreign policy and the shaping of its nationalidentity are identified.

PB 9781845193966 £22.95 February 2010 Sussex Academic Press 310 pages

ISRAEL & THE PEACE PROCESS

ARAB-JEWISH RELATIONS: From Conflict to Resolution?Elie Podeh, Asher Kaufman (Edited by)

Distinguished American, Canadian, Palestinian and Israeli contributors illuminate the buildingblocks on the possible path from conflict to reconciliation between Jews and Arabs. The book isdivided into three parts: Part I looks at the Arab-Jewish Conflict, from early Zionism to the 1967Arab-Israeli War; Part II, Israel and the Arab States, focuses on Israel’s relations with itsneighbouring countries, Syria, and Lebanon; and Part III is concerned with the Peace Process, itsdynamics and the missed opportunities for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Elie Podeh is Lecturer in the Department of Islam and Middle

Eastern Studies, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Research Fellow at The TrumanInstitute for the Advancement of Peace. Dr Asher Kaufman teaches at the Department of Islamand Middle East Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a Fellow at the TrumanInstitute for the Advancement of Peace.



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THE CAMP DAVID SUMMIT - WHAT WENT WRONG?Americans, Israelis, & Palestinians Analyze the Failure of the Boldest AttemptEver to Resolve the Palestinian-Israeli ConflictShimon Shamir, Bruce Maddy-Weitzman (Edited by)

The Camp David Summit of 2000 was a formative event in the history of the Israeli-Palestinianrelations. It was the most comprehensive effort ever to resolve a hundred-year conflict. Yet, itnot only ended in failure but was immediately followed by the eruption of unprecedentedviolence. This book is essential reading for all those interested in Israeli-Arab relations, theMiddle East in general, international diplomacy, and conflict resolution.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Shimon Shamir, Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History,

is former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt; first Israeli Ambassador to Jordan; and current Head ofThe Institute for Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation, Tel Aviv University.Bruce Maddy-Weitzman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Easternand African Studies at Tel Aviv University.

HB 9781845190996 £55.00 May 2005 Sussex Academic Press 267 pagesPB 9781845191009 £18.95 May 2005 Sussex Academic Press 267 pages

THE SEARCH FOR ISRAEL-ARAB PEACELearning From the Past & Building TrustEdwin G. Corr, Joseph Ginat, Shaul Gabbay (Edited by)

The focus of this volume is on how to achieve an agreement, not on the components of viablepeace agreements, which the editors believe largely exist and are the subject of a number ofearlier studies, books and the texts of draft accords reached previously in government-to-government and in private-parties negotiations. The editors and contributors assume a two-state solution based on "land for peace" and emphasise the importance of the role of outsidemediators, especially the United States.

HB 9781845191917 £55.00 June 2007 Sussex Academic Press 286 pages

ISRAEL & THE USA

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKUS POLICY TOWARDS ISRAELThe Role of Political Culture in Defining the 'Special Relationship'Elizabeth Stephens

This book explains the American commitment to Israel within a framework of political culture.Although political culture is not the sole explanatory factor in the development of US policytoward Israel, it has played a key role in serving to shape and define the American approach toforeign affairs, thus contributing to decisions and operations that cannot easily be explainedsolely in geopolitical, economic or military terms.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Elizabeth Stephens is a Ph.D. graduate from the London School

of Economics & Political Science, in the department of International Relations.

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ISRAELI MILITARY STUDIES

ARMS CONTROL IN THE MIDDLE EASTCooperative Security Dialogue, & Regional Constraints Emily B. Landau

This is the story of a regional process in the making: from the very concept of arms control asapplied to the region, through the innovative regional forum and format for discussion that wasdevised for the talks, to the dynamics of the talks and the question of Egypt’s position withinthis novel regional setting. The result was that what seemed at the outset to be a most likelyunpromising forum became the setting of unprecedented regional dynamics.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Emily B. Landau is a senior research associate and director of

the arms control and regional security project at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at TelAviv University.

HB 9781845190286 £55.00 August 2006 Sussex Academic Press 253 pages

ARMS TRANSFERS TO ISRAELThe Strategic Logic Behind American Military Assistance David Rodman

This book dispels two common myths about the American-Israeli patron-client relationship -that arms transfers to Israel have been motivated by American domestic politics rather thannational interests and that these arms transfers have come without any political stringsattached to them. The book is based largely on American government documents from theForeign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, from the Lyndon B Johnson PresidentialLibrary, and from the United States National Archives.

HB 9781845191788 £35.00 March 2007 Sussex Academic Press 129 pages

DEFENSE & DIPLOMACY IN ISRAEL'S NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERIENCETactics, Partnerships & Motives David Rodman

This work defines the central concepts of Israel’s national security doctrine as deterrence,geography, manpower, quantity versus quality, offensive manoeuvre warfare, conventionalversus unconventional threats, self-reliance, great power patronage, and peripheralpartnerships. The author describes and explains how these concepts have influenced the warfighting experience of the Israel Defense Forces, including the air force and the navy. Specialattention is paid to Israel’s relationships with the United States, Turkey, and India as they relateto the Jewish state’s national security, and in particular offers a new interpretation of whatreally drives these relationships.

REVIEWS: " Given the challenges facing the Jewish state this work is very timely, all the more

so because the author brings a deep knowledge to the subject. All in all a highly informativework that makes an important contribution to the literature on Israeli strategy and involvementin the international arena."Professor Efraim Karsh, Head, Mediterranean Studies Programme, King's College, Universityof London.

HB 9781845190736 £37.50 February 2005 Sussex Academic Press 160 pages


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EILAM'S ARCHow Israel Became a Military Technology PowerhouseUzi Eilam

Eilam's Arc reveals the inside story on how Israel became a military technology powerhousewithin a period of less than two generations. It blends the broad view of a person who led thecreation of incredibly far-sighted R&D programmes with intimate portraits of the main playersin a complex strategy that spans continents, corporations and armies. More than any otheraccount, it explains how a very small country was able to make a concentrated use of its limitedassets with astute leverage of international relationships while at the same time creating thebackbone of Israeli civilian technology industries.

Brigadier General Uzi Eilam was born and raised in a deeply socialist kibbutz where science andlearning were scorned as useless and effete. His is the journey that an entire country madefrom devising a better spade to creating an internationally competitive space programme.During this journey Eilam learned step by step how to manage the complex relationship withthe United States, which he says was willing to supply Israel with high technology only if it knewthat Israel was well on its way to developing its own version of the same technology itself.

This book will be of interest not only to military historians but for all those who have an interestin innovation and innovation policy. Israeli innovation policies, both civilian and military, have aproven track record of success and Eilam explains how governments can nurture, stimulate andlead individuals, corporations and foreign partners towards a desired goal.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Uzi Eilam served as commander of MAFAT, the high- powered

Israeli agency for weapons development, the director general of the Israel Atomic EnergyCommission, and the commander of other Israeli R&D agencies. Eilam's military career startedas a decorated paratroop officer but he also studied engineering and took a central part inleading military R&D from the1960s to the 1990s.

PB 9781845194628 £25.00 August 2011 Sussex Academic Press 360 pages

NEW TITLEGLOBAL JIHAD & THE TACTIC OF TERROR ABDUCTIONA Comprehensive Review of Islamic Terrorist OrganizationsShaul Shay

This book analyzes Islamic terror abductions over the last 30 years in the Middle East (Lebanon,Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia), Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and thePhilippines), Africa (the Maghreb, the Sahel regions, and Somalia), and in Russia as a part of theRussian–Chechen conflict. Discussion also focuses on the abduction by Hizballah of Israelisoldiers, the ‘Second Lebanon War’ of 2006, the Mumbai terror attack (2008), the Chechenhostage crisis in Moscow and Beslan (2002 and 2004), the kidnapping of employees of theAlgerian In Amenas gas facility by ‘al Qaeda of the Maghreb’ in January 2013 and the Nairobi“Westgate Mall” hostage crisis in September 2013

The role of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, and its patronage of terror organizations thatutilize the tactic of abduction to promote Iranian interests in Lebanon and Iraq, is highlightedthroughout.

Discussion focuses on the challenges faced by countries whose citizens have been abducted byIslamic terror organizations and their reactions to these challenges, and provides theoreticalclassifications of the phenomenon of terrorism in general and terror abduction in particular..



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ISLAMIC TERROR ABDUCTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EASTShaul Shay

This book investigates abductions, hostage taking, beheadings, and global jihad influences infour theatres in the Middle East over the last 25 years (1980-2005): Israel (as a part of theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict), Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq. It includes discussion of the WilliamBuckley, William Higgins and "Iran gate" abductions. The research examines the challengeposed by terrorist organisations for countries whose citizens have been abducted and theanswers to that challenge, and provides theoretical classifications of the terror phenomenon ingeneral and abductions/beheadings in particular.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Shaul Shay is a senior research fellow of the International Policy

Institute for Counter Terrorism.

HB 9781845191672 £55.00 April 2007 Sussex Academic Press 197 pages

ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR OPTIONBehind the Scenes - Diplomacy Between Dimona & WashingtonZaki Shalom

In the early 1950s, Israel secretly launched a project designed to achieve a nuclear option.Initially supported by France, this daring project stood to engineer a dramatic change in Israel’sstrategic position vis-à-vis its neighboring Arab states and the wider international community. Anuclear program was driven by the firm conviction of David Ben-Gurion that Israel’s existencecould be guaranteed only with the aid of such a deterrent. The ensuing nuclear defensestrategy was upheld by successive Israeli governments.

Adamantly opposed to America’s request to allow external supervision of its nuclear activity,Israel labored to avert a potentially disastrous rift with its one superpower ally. Israel's NuclearOption recounts the dialogue and related diplomatic activity that took place during theKennedy and Johnson administrations and the Ben-Gurion and Eshkol premierships. Theintense and often difficult discussions, which pitted Israel's security concerns against the UnitedStates’ determined goal to stem nuclear proliferation, eventually produced a set of formal andinformal strategic understandings regarding Israel’s nuclear deterrence.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Zaki Shalom is a senior researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research

Center, Ben-Gurion University. His main fields of study are the Arab-Israeli conflict and Israel'sdefense policy.

REVIEWS: "Zaki Shalom recounts the US-Israel dialogue on Israel's nuclear project, and

delineates the limitations a superpower faces when trying to impose its security agenda on aregional ally. Shalom's book is an important contribution to our understanding of the Israelinuclear project, and the diplomacy of arms control."Prof. Yair Evron, The School of Government and Policy, The Security Studies Program, Tel AvivUniversity.

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NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT BEFORE THE YOM KIPPUR WARDisentangling Deception & DistreactionAryeh Shalev

Israel's flawed intelligence assessment in October 1973 has been studied intensively and beenthe subject of much public and professional debate. This book adds a unique dimension topreviously disclosed material, as its author served as head of the Research Branch of IsraeliMilitary Intelligence on the eve of and during the Yom Kippur War and as such was responsiblefor the national intelligence assessment at the time. Drawing on his personal records, and oninterviews and extensive research conducted in the intervening decades, Aryeh Shalevexamines the preconceptions and common beliefs that prevailed among Israeli intelligenceofficials and ultimately contributed to their flawed assessment.This book also reviews possible organisational changes and methodological improvements toguard as much as possible against surprise attacks in the future, relevant not only to Israel'scircumstances but to all countries with enemies capable of launching an attack.

Published in association with the Institute for National Strategic Studies.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Brigadier General (ret.) Aryeh Shalev served in the Israel

Defense Forces from the War of Independence until 1976, filling many senior commandpositions. For much of his service he worked in intelligence, and for seven years served as thehead of the Research Department within Military Intelligence. His final posting in the IDF wascommander of the Judea and Samaria area. In 1978 he joined the Jaffee Center for StrategicStudies, later incorporated as the Institute for National Strategic Studies. This is his sixth book.

HB 9781845193706 £55.00 October 2009 Sussex Academic Press 297 pagesPB 9781845196363 £27.50 February 2014 Sussex Academic Press 297 pages

NEW TITLETHE NATURE OF WARConflicting Paradigms & Israeli Military EffectivenessRon Tira

In The Nature of War: Conflicting Paradigms and Israeli Military Effectiveness, Ron Tiraexamines the different aspects that characterize a war, from the center of gravity to beattacked to the elements constituting military decision, as they are manifested in ‘simple’symmetrical wars; asymmetrical wars versus a state opponent; guerilla warfare; parallelwarfare; and next generation warfare.

The author first surveys types of war and the circumstances whereby the classical doctrine ofwar is progressively less valid, and then devises additional analytical tools necessary tounderstand these more complex conflicts. The study examines the relevance of classicaldoctrine and applies these new tools and concepts to a range of historical examples, from theSecond Punic War to World War II to some of Israel’s main wars. The final case evaluated is thenext generation of wars that Israel and other Western countries may find themselves fighting –wars against states that have adopted the guerilla paradigm.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Ron Tira, a former fighter pilot in the Israel Air Force, has over

twenty years of experience in Israel Air Force intelligence and special operations. He served as asection head in the IAF Intelligence Wing (“Lamdan”), and is currently a reservist in the airforce’s Campaign Planning Department. A graduate of the London School of Economics andPolitical Science, Tira is a corporate lawyer and businessman. He is the author of Forming anIsraeli Policy towards Syria (2000) and The Limitations of Standoff Firepower-Based Operations:On Standoff Warfare, Maneuver, and Decision (2007).

PB 9781845196387 £22.95 February 2014 Sussex Academic Press 146 pages 229x152mm


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RADICAL ISLAM: in Egypt & JordanNachman Tal

REVIEWS: "Nachman Tal has written a unique book. It elucidates the variety of streams of

radical Islam and the modus operandi of Egypt and Jordan in coping with them. Based on hisintimate knowledge of the field, Tal's work is an indispensable source for understanding therelations between the ideology and the strategy of these radical streams."Dr Matti Steinberg, former advisor to the head of Israel's General Security Services, and guestlecturer, Princeton University.


SWORD & SHIELD OF ZIONThe Israel Air Force in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–2012David Rodman

The Israel Air Force (IAF) has accumulated as much battle experience as any air force in theworld during the post-Second World War era, and it has recorded many outstandingaccomplishments throughout a seemingly endless string of interstate wars, asymmetrical wars,counterinsurgency campaigns, and special operations.

This book examines the IAF’s experience in the Arab–Israeli conflict from the establishment ofIsrael in 1948 to the present day. It analyzes this experience through the prisms of maneuverwarfare, attrition warfare, counterinsurgency warfare, special operations, and humanitarianoperations. The book reviews the IAF’s performance in such wars as the 1967 Six-Day War, the1969–70 War of Attrition, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 2006 Second Lebanon War, and the2008–9 Gaza War.

The book also scrutinizes the IAF’s participation in major counterinsurgency campaigns andspecial operations, traces the air force’s experience with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),which have occupied a very prominent place in air operations since the 1982 Lebanon War, andchronicles its experience with anti-aircraft defenses and satellites. Up-to-date information onthe IAF’s bases, squadrons, and other infrastructure is provided as well. The book is based onpersonal visits to the IAF over the past few years, during which the author had the opportunityto tour bases, listen to lectures and briefings, and speak with numerous retired, reserve, andactive duty officers.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: David Rodman is the author of Defense and Diplomacy in

Israel’s National Security Experience: Tactics, Partnerships, and Motives (2005) and ArmsTransfers to Israel: The Strategic Logic behind American Military Assistance (2007). He has alsopublished articles on the Arab−Israeli conflict in various professional journals, including Middle Eastern Studies, The Journal of Strategic Studies, MERIA Journal, Israel Affairs, Defence Studies,and Air & Space Power Chronicles.

HB 9781845195830 £37.50 April 2013 Sussex Academic Press 144 pagesPB 9781845196530 £25.00 July 2014 Sussex Academic Press 144 pages


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ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT

FATAH & THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCEThe Institutionalization of a Popular Struggle Anat K. Kurz

The institutionalisation of Fatah mirrors the evolution of the PLO and the Palestinian nationalcause generally. Understanding the factors that have influenced Fatah’s politics of violence, andits political path - and the balance between the two - help to explain the political history of theMiddle East in recent decades. Fatah’s institutionalisation is marked by alternating bases of theorganisation’s legitimacy: organisational, communal, and external. Transformations from onephase to another are distinguished by the shifts in relative importance assigned to the differentsources of legitimacy, which in turn dictated different courses of action for the organisation.

HB 9781845192082 £25.00 October 2005 Sussex Academic Press 228 pages

THE GAZA STRIPIts History & Politics - From the Pharaohs to the Israeli Invasion of 2009Nathan Shachar

Nathan Shachar is a veteran correspondent who has covered Gazan affairs for more than threedecades. He has personally witnessed much of the turmoil which has made the Gaza Strip apermanent item of news bulletins for sixty years. This book relates the Gaza Strip's rich andtumultuous history in a highly readable text, which includes time-lines for all major events andpersonalities (from the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III to Hamas’ leader Ismai'l Haniye). Itbrings perspective to the recent Israeli invasion of the Strip and its political and socialaftermath.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Nathan Shachar is the Jerusalem correspondent of the Swedish

daily Dagens Nyheter.

HB 9781845193447 £42.50 December 2009 Sussex Academic Press 206 pagesPB 9781845193454 £19.95 December 2009 Sussex Academic Press 206 pages

ISRAEL'S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS THE PLOThe Impact of Globalization Amnon Aran

This detailed examination of Israeli foreign policy towards the Palestinian LiberationOrganization (PLO) between the 1967 war and the 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Stripfocuses on the impact and process of globalisation on the Israeli state's politics, economy,society and culture. In order to determine how interfacing developed between foreign policyand globalisation a theoretical framework is presented that brings together two establishedapproaches that hitherto have advanced in parallel: foreign policy analysis and globalisationtheory. This is the first attempt within the discipline of International Relations to theorise therelationships between foreign policy and globalisation.

To date there have been only partial historical accounts of Israeli foreign policy towards thePLO in the context of globalisation. It is generally understood that foreign policy towards thePLO became entangled with globalisation due to the socio-economic and cultural globalisationof Israel in the mid-1980s, but this study shows that the increasing impact of military andpolitical globalisation during the Cold War on the Arab-Israeli conflict resulted in Israeli foreignpolicy towards the PLO, and globalisation effects in Israel, becoming entwined from the early1970s.

PB 9781845194833 £19.95 March 2011 Sussex Academic Press 176 pages


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SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICEMEDIA POLITICS & DEMOCRACY IN PALESTINEPolitical Culture, Pluralism & the Palestinian Authority Amal Jamal

REVIEWS: "An impressive, thoughtful, and well-documented study of the complexities of

Palestinian politics in the last decade. It is a pioneering study reflecting on the plural characterof the Palestinian public sphere and the attempts of social movements and the media toinfluence the process of state-building."Prof. Shaul Mishal (Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University), co-author ofInvestment in Peace: The Politics of Economic Cooperation Between Israel, Jordan and thePalestinians.


PALESTINE 1948War, Escape & the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Yoav Gelber

The book stresses mainly the processes that led Palestinian society to its collapse and massflight and the Israeli reactions and policies that turned this temporary escape into a long-lastingrefugee problem. Emphasizing the different historical and cultural perspectives of theadversaries and the context of the war's development, it criticises the approach of the Israeli'New Historians' who tend to isolate the refugee problem from the broader issues of the warand treat it separately. Includes a glossary of Arab/Israeli wartime operations.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Yoav Gelber is Professor of History at the University of Haifa and

Head of the Herzl Institute for Research and Study of Zionism.

REVIEWS: "There have been flashier histories of Israel's war of independence, and longer

ones, but none as well informed, more sensible and more compelling than Gelber's magisterialaccount..." - Middle East Quarterly

PB 9781845190750 £25.00 January 2006 Sussex Academic Press 436 pages

SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICETHE PALESTINIAN REFUGEESOld Problems - New SolutionsJoseph Ginat, Edward Perkins (Edited by)

There has been little progress on the refugee problem because of official Palestinian publicpositions, other Arab countries' approach to the 'right of return' of all Palestinian refugees, andthe contrasting Israeli public policy of not allowing any refugees to return to Israel. Such polar-opposite approaches can never resolve this difficult and longstanding humanitarian problem.By working collectively, the world's leading experts from Arab countries, the PalestinianAuthority, Israel, Europe and the United States have developed a chessboard of proposedsolutions. The volume in part reflects the polarization that exists on the issue, and in partmoves away from the political slogans of both sides, toward concrete proposals for negotiatinga comprehensive agreement.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Joseph Ginat, a cultural-political anthropologist, is Vice

President of International Relations and Research at Netanya Academic College, and Director ofthe S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue.



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ISRAEL'S ARAB CITIZENS

SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICETHE ARABS IN ISRAELOri Stendel

This book is an enquiry into the key factors of the Arab Israelis’ existence. It probes how theyare being integrated into the State of Israel and how, at the same time, they face dilemmas ofidentity. For almost every question that arises, the author provides the relevant historicalbackground and distinguishes features shared with, or different from, the developments inother Arab countries.

The political map of the Arab minority is at the heart of this book, but there are extendedchapters on demographic trends, geographic distribution, the configuration of the religiouscommunities, social conditions, the status of women, Arabic-language literature in Israel, theArabic press, the legal status of the minority, government policies, the Arabs of East Jerusalem,the relations of Israeli Arabs with those of the occupied territories and with the PalestinianAuthority under Yasser Arafat.


NOW AVAILABLE IN FULLY REVISED PAPERBACK EDITIONBLOOD REVENGEFamily Honor, Mediation & OutcastingJoseph Ginat

Foreword to the second edition by Gabriel Bach, Judge of the Israeli Supreme Court

In the past, when blood revenge took place, the perpetrators were proud of the fact as itenhanced their honor. Now admittance of guilt is much more proscribed, and the authorities,unable to penetrate the strict secrecy codes of Arab society, are having to adopt new strategiesto prevent disputes getting out of hand. This issue has tremendous implications for law andorder in Israeli society.

This fully revised second edition takes account of the political upheavals since 1987 andprovides substantial new ethnographic material.

PB 9781845191979 £25.00 September 2013 Sussex Academic Press 228 pages


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NEW TITLETHE CHARM OF GRAVESPerceptions of Death & After-Death Among the Negev BedouinGideon M Kressel, Sasson Bar-Zvi, Aref Abu-Rabi’a

The authors provide a comprehensive picture of burial, mourning rituals, commemorationpractices and veneration of the dead among the Negev Bedouin. A primary emphasis is thepivotal linkages between the living and the dead embodied in the intermediary role of healers,sorcerers, seers and other arbitrators between heaven and earth, who supplicate – publicly andprivately – at the gravesite of chosen awliyâh (deceased saints).

The Charm of Graves brings together integrated findings of three scholars, based on decades offield work that combine close to 65 years of scrutiny. It maps out the locations andparticularities of venerated tombs, the identity of the occupants and their individual abilitiesvis-à-vis the Almighty. Attitudes, beliefs and customs surrounding each gravesite, whencombined on a longitudinal scale, reveal changes over time in beliefs and practices in graveworship and burial, mourning and condolence customs. Analysis of the data reveals that thedynamic of grave worship among the Negev Bedouin throws light on ancient traditions in acomplex relationship with mainstream Islamic doctrine and the impact of modernity onBedouin conduct and belief.

The authors’ observations and interviews with practitioners about their beliefs are comparedand augmented with references that exist in the professional literature, including graveworship elsewhere in the Arab world. The Charm of Graves is essential reading foranthropologists, scholars of the sociology of religion, and students of Islam at university andpopular levels. The topic has received only marginal attention in existing anthropological worksand has been keenly awaited.


STRANGERS IN THEIR HOMELANDA Critical Study of Israel's Arab CitizensRa'anan Cohen

Too little is written about the ethnic-nationalist identity crisis between the State of Israel andits Arab citizens which becomes intensified with every regional event - from the US invasion ofIraq, to the second Lebanon war. The author addresses this lacunae by providing a detailedaccount of the situation of the Arab population of Israel: their political and electoral ambitions,their extended families/tribes, their lands, their political personalities, their society, and theirhopes for the future.

Beginning with the time when the Arabs were encouraged to belong to 'satellite' factions underthe auspices of the Labor Party, up to the fiercely nationalist Arab parties of today, formerMember of Israel's Knesset and Cabinet Minister, Dr Ra'anan Cohen examines the politicalchanges that have taken place in the Israeli Arab community over recent decades. Hisunparalleled viewpoint and access as a researcher, and as former head of the Labour Party'sMinorities Commission, provides Israel's decision-makers with meticulously researched data onthe political and national challenges that need to be addressed as they take a long overdue lookat how better to incorporate Israel's Arab Citizens into the Jewish homeland. This task isdeemed by Israeli politicians of all persuasions to be critical to the long-term security of theState of Israel. It is essential reading for all people interested and involved in Middle Eastaffairs.

PB 9781845192679 £17.95 December 2008 Sussex Academic Press 277 pages


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JERUSALEM

NEW TITLECONTESTING SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE IN JERUSALEMJewish/Islamic Conflict over the Museum of Tolerance at Mamilla CemeteryYitzhak Reiter

In 2006 a dispute broke out regarding an initiative by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in LosAngeles (backed by Israeli authorities) to construct a Museum of Tolerance (MoT) in WestJerusalem. The museum was to be built on a plot of land that in the past had been part of thehistoric Muslim Mamilla Cemetery, which since the 1980s has served as a municipal parking lot.Debate centred on whether construction of a museum dedicated to human dignity on Muslimcemeterial land was justified.

The Northern Islamic Movement and a group of 70 academics and eight Israeli civil societyorganizations (including rabbis) opposed the project, but their petition to Israel’s High Court ofJustice failed. Yitzhak Reiter presents the public and legal dilemmas at the individual level (anact of insensitivity to the Muslim minority in Jerusalem); at the political level (the right of equaltreatment by the state and the right to administer holy properties [waqf] according to religiouslaw and rulings of shari’a [Islamic law] courts); and at the universal level (can conflict over aholy place be addressed objectively from the ideological/political positions that the placesymbolizes, and is a secular civil court competent/appropriate to adjudicate a religious conflict).Research for this book integrates a multi-disciplinary approach involving history, identitypolitics, and conflict resolution. Sources include documents obtained from the Shari’a Court ofJerusalem and Israel’s High Court of Justice, as well as Islamic law and Israeli civil law literature,reports of experts submitted to the courts, and personal participation of the author, includingdiscussions with key players and informants. The Mamilla dispute reflects a microcosm ofconflicts over religious and national symbols of cultural heritage as well as Jewish majority–Arab minority tensions within Israel.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Yitzhak Reiter chairs the department of Land-of-Israel Studies at

Ashkelon Academic College and is a senior fellow of the Truman Institute of the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. He participated in anumber of Track 2 diplomacy teams with Palestinians and has been a visiting scholarthroughout the world. He has published extensively, most recently War, Peace andInternational Relations: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel.

HB 9781845196554 £40.00 May 2014 Sussex Academic Press 224 pagesPB 9781845196615 £22.50 May 2014 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages

THE HOLY PLACES OF JERUSALEM IN MIDDLE EAST PEACE AGREEMENTSThe Conflict Between Global & State Identities Enrico Molinaro

Throughout history Jerusalem and its Holy Places have witnessed fierce religious controversyand political dispute. This multidisciplinary study analyses an international and diplomaticperspective which highlights the state/national (territorial) versus global/transnationalapproach to Jerusalem with respect to possession and the right to worship. It provides anoverview and interpretation of the relevant provisions included in the international documentsused in the Middle East Peace Process, and researches the historical complexities of the terms"Status Quo" and "Holy Places" - terminology crucial to the various claims.

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JERUSALEM SYNDROMEThe Palestinian-Israeli Battle for the Holy City Moshe Amirav

Israel’s policies have failed to 'unite' Jerusalem. Israeli and Palestinian strategies to gain controlover East Jerusalem are analysed, but neither side has proved victorious, and the battle rageson locally and internationally, with serious implications for stability in the Middle East. Amiravreveals the deep historical divisions within the Arab-Muslim camp over guardianship of Muslimholy places, and provides a gripping account of the Camp David negotiations in 2000 whichfailed in part due to disagreement about sovereignty over Jerusalem’s Holy Places.

PB 9781845193485 £17.95 June 2009 Sussex Academic Press 230 pages

THE MEETING OF CIVILIZATIONSMuslim, Christian & Jewish Moshe Ma’oz (Edited by)

This book examines religious and historical themes of these three civilising religions, the impactof education on their interrelationship, the problem of Jerusalem, as well as contemporaryinterfaith relations. Noted scholars and theologians - Jewish, Christian and Muslim - from theUnited States, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Palestine and Turkey contribute tothis book, the theme of which was first presented at an international conference organised bythe Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Divinity School, Harvard University.

HB 9781845192877 £49.95 September 2008 Sussex Academic Press 264 pagesPB 9781845193959 £19.95 October 2009 Sussex Academic Press 264 pages

THE SIX DAY WAR

ARAB POLITICS, PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM & THE SIX DAY WARThe Crystallization of Arab Strategy & Nasir's Descent to War, 1957-1967Moshe Shemesh

This study, based almost exclusively on hitherto unavailable Arab primary sources, sets out thecrystallisation of Arab strategy to reveal conclusions substantively different from previousscholarly and political-military assessments. Issues dealt with include: the relevance of theFilastin problem as key to understanding the descent to war; the pivotal Syrian water struggleas a key motivating factor; Nasir's military blunders with respect to advice received from theEgyptian High Command; Nasir's acceptance of the principle that Egypt had to absorb the firstIsraeli strike, to be followed by Egypt's delivery of a second, decisive strike; the "politicalprocess" approach to solving the conflict as evidenced by the Khartoum protocolsnotwithstanding the "1948 refugee problem"; and the Hashemite regime's response toPalestinians' heightened national awakening.



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THE ROLE OF US DIPLOMACY IN THE LEAD-UP TO THE SIX DAY WARBalancing Moral Commitments & National InterestsZaki Shalom

The Six Day War not only changed the borders of Israel and redefined its relations with theArab world, but the impact on the international community still reverberates 40 years on.Despite a plethora of books on the war, analysis of US-Israel/US-Egypt intensive political anddiplomatic activity and dialogue in the period preceding the war has not been forthcoming todate. Zaki Shalom addresses this lacuna by detailing the meetings, exchanges of messages, andinternal discussions right up to the outbreak of the war. The book is essential reading for allthose involved in Middle East studies, international relations, and diplomacy and statecraft.


THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MIDDLE EAST

BRITAIN & THE MIDDLE EASTFrom Imperial Power to Junior PartnerElie Podeh, Zach Levey (Edited by)

This book deals with British involvement in the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to theearly twenty-first century. Encompassing a wide range of topics - including Britain’s imperiallegacy; Palestine, Israel and the Jews; and the contemporary Middle East - it examines Britain’srole in Egypt, the Levant, the Fertile Crescent, and the Gulf. The twenty scholar/contributorsare renowned specialists, and have contributed original research in order that the scope andpurview of this work will fill a lacuna in the literature on Britain’s role in the region.


SPECIAL OFFER – HARDBACK AT PAPERBACK PRICETHE DECLINE OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MIDDLE EAST, 1961-1969A Willing Retreat Tore T. Petersen

The author provides an extensive study of the common British and American interest in theMiddle East (hence the term Anglo-American Middle East) under Kennedy and Johnson.Contrary to recent scholarly opinion, the author argues that the loss of influence to the SovietUnion and Arab radicalism in the Middle East was not the result of lack of power but lack ofwill. Britain, during the period of Harold Wilson’s Labour government (1964-1970) withdrewfrom its Middle Eastern bases for ideological reasons, namely a distaste for imperialism andcolonialism. The United States, while placing great store in a continued British presence east ofSuez, was unable or unwilling to prevent the British withdrawal. And as the British withdrawalgathered momentum, American disinterest toward the Middle East increased.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Tore T. Petersen is Associate Professor of International and

American Diplomatic History at the Norwegian University of Technology and Science.

HB 9781845196790 £25.00 December 2005 Sussex Academic Press 181 pages


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NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKTHE FOREIGN OFFICE & FOREIGN POLICY, 1919-1926Ephraim Maisel

Foreword by Martin Gilbert CBE and Preface by Zara Steiner

The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy, 1919–1926 tells of the administrative changes of thepost-war period and of the senior permanent officials, their personalities and cast of mind, whoadvised the foreign secretary and carried out his policies. The book goes beyond existingaccounts of changes taking place after the Great War, and provides examples of the FOmachine in action as seen from King Charles Street, and the uneasy relationship between 10Downing Street and the Foreign Office.

PB 9781845192105 £25.00 November 2013 Sussex Academic Press 323 pages 180x260mm

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKIN THE NAME OF OILAnglo-American Relations in the Middle East, 1950-1958 Ivan L. G. Pearson

Traditional historiographies of the Cold War in the Middle East contend that the Suez Crisismarked the demise of Britain's political influence in the region. By contrast, using recentlydeclassified documents, Ivan Pearson argues that although the Suez Crisis was cataclysmic onmany dimensions, it did not mark a precipitous turning point in Britain's ability to affect eventsin the Middle East decisively.

In the Name of Oil documents the frequent bureaucratic infighting between the Administration,State Department, and CIA on the American side, as well as the way in which the British tookadvantage of the blurred line between communism and Arab nationalism in the Middle East tomislead the US into pursuing policies that would protect the cheap oil supplied by British-owned oil giants such as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and the Iraq Petroleum Company. Thenarrative explains the crucial role of local actors, and the tangled web of interests andcircumstances: Western-backed coups, counter-coups, political intimidation, rigged elections,misinformation, and bribery. Barely a decade after the end of World War II, the war's liberaldemocratic victors were engaged in dubious acts in the name of protecting Europe’s access tocheap Middle Eastern Oil.

PB 9781845195595 £22.50 August 2012 Sussex Academic Press 240 pages

NEW TITLEPALESTINE IN THE SECOND WORLD WARStrategic Plans & Political Dilemmas - The Emergence of a New Middle EastDaphna Sharfman

The aim of this work is to analyse the continual development of strategic plans and politicaldilemmas that arose during the war period, which led to the subsequent post-war circumstancewhere American and Soviet involvement impacted on the strategic thinking of all involvedparties, notwithstanding the British military victory. Analysis includes: the pre-war Britishstrategic situation in Palestine, and the war events in Palestine and its Middle East neighbourcountries (at the military–strategic level and the repercussions of the outcome of the war forthe local Palestinian population). At the heart of the discussion lies British interests and policiesframed towards Jews and Arabs; analysis of the two communities’ conflicting interests andpolicies; and the resultant sea-change in the establishment of the Jewish state which brought inits wake the emergence of a New Middle East.

HB 9781845195267 £55.00 February 2014 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages


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NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKRICHARD NIXON, GREAT BRITAIN & THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ALIGNMENT INTHE PERSIAN GULF & ARABIAN PENINSULAMaking Allies Out of Clients Tore T. Petersen

REVIEWS: “Tore Petersen has succeeded in producing an innovative, thought-provoking and

insightful study of an important, but neglected, aspect of the Nixon presidency. His book will beessential reading for those interested not merely in Anglo-American relations in the era ofdecolonization, but also the development of the modern Middle East.”Simon C. Smith, University of Hull, author of Britain’s Revival and Fall in the Gulf: Kuwait,Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950–71.

HB 9781845192778 £55.00 April 2009 Sussex Academic Press 192 pagesPB 9781845194666 £22.50 February 2011 Sussex Academic Press 172 pages

NEW TITLE‘A SMALL ROOM IN CLARGES STREET’War-Time Lectures at the Royal Central Asian Society, 1942–1944Edited by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

During the darkest days of the Second World War a select group of people gathered together inMayfair to listen to a series of secret lectures organised by the Royal Central Asian Society (nowthe Royal Society for Asian Affairs). Lecturers and their hand-picked audience examined fast-moving events in the Middle East, Persia and Russia with the intention to propose strategies forBritain’s post-war international role. The lecturers were chosen for their inside knowledge ofthese countries: a British General who had visited Russia’s front-line held against the Germaninvasion; an RAF officer who was in Iraq during the pro-German coup by Rashid Ali, and thesubsequent defence of the Habbaniya air base; a Persian-speaking British diplomat stationed inTeheran; a Mancunian of Lebanese descent who spoke frankly about Arab hopes and fears; aHome Officer advisor sent to Moscow to inspect its fire-watching arrangements; and a Polishcountess forcibly transported to a collective farm in Siberia, among others.

Secrecy surrounded these lectures – many of the scripts were marked ‘Secret’ or ‘Confidential’;they were not published in the Society’s Journal, and the audience was warned not to revealthe topics discussed outside the Clarges Street premises. The discussions which followed thelectures were held in the knowledge that frank views could be freely expressed, and areincluded in this volume. Although so much has changed in the international arena, theseseventy-year old lectures, only recently rediscovered in the Society’s Archives, have a peculiarpoignancy and relevance in understanding today’s unquiet Middle East and how war-timeevents and strategies were to shape post-war policy with regard to Arab nationalism and Arabunity.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Rosie Llewellyn-Jones is archivist at the Royal Society for Asian

Affairs. She is an historian, who read languages and gained her PhD from the School of Orientaland African Studies, London. She has worked in Saudi Arabia and travelled extensively,including the overland route through Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 1970s. She haspublished a number of books, mainly on colonial history in the Indian sub-continent. She is atour leader for Martin Randall Travel in Bengal and Secretary of the British Association forCemeteries in South Asia.



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ZIONISM & JEWISH IDENTITY

FORTHCOMING TITLEADVOCATING PROPAGANDA: VIEWPOINTS FROM ISRAELSocial Media, Public Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, Military Psychology &Religious Persuasion PerspectivesRon Schleifer

A rabbi, a priest, a politician, public servants, a military officer, a student activist and a socialmedia consultant are gathered in this book to discuss the incomprehensible situation of Israel’sfaltering public image.

Rabbi Berl Wine addresses the Jewish diaspora tradition and the lack of religious understandingof the realities of running a sovereign modern state. Pastor Jorgen Buhler discusses theChristian Protestant pro-Israel perspective. Dr. Meron Medzini, the biographer of Golda Meir,sets out the state’s early policy toward propaganda. Dr. Moshe Yegar, a former deputy directorin the Israeli foreign ministry discusses the time when Public Relations was abolished in theministry by today’s president, Shimon Peres. Danny Seman, formerly a head of department inthe newly founded Ministry of Information and Government Press Office, tells of hisexperiences of working for the government without government backup. Barak Raz of the IDFSpokesman Unit gives the military angle. Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry,sets out Israeli foreign policy objectives. Yossi Sarid, former senior minister and mediapersonality, provides analysis of hasbara (public diplomacy) in an international perspective.David Olesker, a leading authority on global campus activism, gives a historical survey of anti-Israel campus activities. Eva Rosenstein and David Abitbol discuss professional media and socialmedia perspectives of propaganda advocacy.

Ron Schleifer sets out to rectify Israel’s international image, through better understanding ofhistorical and contemporary policy, and the political/religious/military philosophy behind thedifferent approaches over the years, presenting media and psychological mechanisms ofmotivating a more resourceful approach to this increasingly necessary aspect of Israelistatehood.

HB 9781845196721 £50.00 September 2014 Sussex Academic Press 192 pages

DREAMERS OF ZIONJoseph Smith & George J. Adams - Conviction, Leadership & Israel's RenewalReed M. Holmes

Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Mormon movement, and George J. Adams, one of his leastknown followers - two Gentile dreamers of Zion - were instrumental in encouraging Jews andChristians to support the restoration of Israel. This book explains the rejection by Smith andAdams of "normal" Christian replacement theology and sets out the apologetics by which Smithand Adams promoted courage and conviction in all who joined them in encouraging the in-gathering of the Jewish exiles to Jerusalem.

HB 9781903900628 £42.50 January 2003 Sussex Academic Press 256 pagesPB 9781845195281 £22.95 March 2012 Sussex Academic Press 256 pages


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NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKISRAELIS IN CONFLICTHegemonies, Identities & ChallengesEdited by Adrian Kemp, Uri Ram, David Newman and Oren Yifta

Globalization and increased cultural heterogeneity have had a major impact on states whoseidentity has been defined in terms of a single, often socially constructed, allegiance to the stateand a single hegemonic ideology. Nowhere are changing notions of identity more prevalentthan in Israel, a country whose dominant (Western-Jewish) society has been subject tounderstanding their past and present in terms of a single ideology of state formation – Zionism.This book on Citizenship and Identity in Contemporary Israel challenges some of the traditionalanalytical paradigms prevalent in Israeli social science for the past fifty years. Although theState continues to define itself in terms of a homogeneous political and cultural entity, as thevoices and narratives of marginalized (especially Palestinian, Eastern-Jewish and women)groups come to the fore, agencies of state socialization are no longer able to impose anunchallenged state identity or hegemony. The deconstruction of a state-sponsored socialidentity, whose aim is social cohesion, is here investigated by critical scholars who develop analternative understanding of this highly dynamic society.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Adriana Kemp is lecturer and research fellow, Department of

Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University. David Newman, Uri Ram, and Oren Yiftachelare professors and research fellows of, respectively, the Department of Politics andGovernance, the Department of Behavioral Sciences, and the Department of Geography, atBen-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva.

PB 9781845196745 £25.00 June 2014 Sussex Academic Press 333 pages

ISRAEL & THE POST-ZIONISTS: A Nation at RiskShlomo Sharan (Edited by)

REVIEWS: “The authors believe that the writings and activities of the post-Zionists have

greatly weakened Israel at home and abroad. They aver that post-Zionist thinking and activity(particularly in the academy and the media) not only work an insidious influence on the abilityof Israelis to persevere in the face of the terror war, but provide aid and comfort to anti-Semites of Arab and non-Arab backgrounds. These are not easy times, and the book’s assertionof foreboding danger confirms this. Most of the time, however, the authors stay true to theirscholarly backgrounds. They examine the behavior of post-Zionist thought from its origins inanti-Zionist politics of the late 19th century and early 20th centureis through the current daysof the second Intifadah. They seek to find the movement’s confréres in the Frankfurt School ofneo-Marxism and to place it within the context of a world tendency toward politicalcorrectness and post-Nationalism. Mostly, they strive to demonstrate the disingenuousnessand danger that the post-Zionists present to Israel and its survival in a hostile world.”Jewish Book World

PB 9781903900529 £17.95 January 2003 Sussex Academic Press 261 pages


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ISRAEL, THE DIASPORA & JEWISH IDENTITYDanny Ben-Moshe, Zohar Segev (Edited by)

Features: Investigates the significance, contribution, and role played by the State of Israel -ideologically and practically - in the identity of Diaspora Jews; Explores the extent and wayIsrael features in Diaspora identity through a range of issues including: anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, Jewish continuity and Israel visits, the peace process, pro-Israel lobbying,philanthropy, religious thought and gender; Examines the place of Israel in the identity ofJewish communities in eight countries and amongst the Israeli Diaspora; A unique feature ofthis volume is that each chapter is followed by short and insightful viewpoints by Israeli andDiaspora commentators, with the book reflecting a dialogue between these different voicesfrom across the Jewish world.

HB 9781845191894 £55.00 July 2007 Sussex Academic Press 353 pagesPB 9781845192426 £25.00 July 2007 Sussex Academic Press 353 pages

NEW TITLETHE “MAGIC CARPET” EXODUS OF YEMENITE JEWRYAn Israeli Formative MythEsther Meir-Glitzenstein

In 1949–50 “Operation Magic Carpet” brought the majority of the Jews of Yemen to Israelthrough secret cooperation between the Imam of Yemen, the British colonial rulers of Aden,the Israeli Government, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). In orderto immigrate to Israel, Yemenite Jews sold or abandoned their property, took their sacredbooks with them, and set out on foot, trekking many difficult and treacherous kilometres toreach the southern border of Yemen and cross into Aden. When they arrived in Aden they werelocated in a transit camp, from which they were later flown to Israel.

“Operation Magic Carpet” strengthened the Zionist claim of a historic Jewish right to the Landof Israel. As a result a heroic myth developed, presenting the bravery and ingenuity of Israeliswho set out to rescue their “distant brethren” from lives of distress, degradation, andpersecution in the context of the return of “ancient Hebrews” to Zion and its concomitantrealization of the eschatological visions of the prophets of Israel. Based on archival documents,the author reveals the enormous personal cost of the operation. The abandonment ofimmigrants to death in the desert during their trek to Aden, and the substantive loss ofpersonal property in leaving their homes at short notice calls into question the personal benefitof such a brutal upheaval and demands a re-assessment of the aims of the immigrationoperation and its prime movers. Pertinent is discussion of the interests of the various statesand organizations that were involved in this exodus, which can be seen in retrospect as the firststage in the evacuation of ancient Jewish communities throughout the Middle East and theirtransfer to Israel. On the wider political level, the question to be posed is: Did the Jews in theMuslim countries pay the price for the establishment of the State of Israel and the creation ofthe Palestinian refugee problem?

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Esther Meir-Glitzenstein is Associate Professor at Ben-Gurion

University of the Negev. She is the author of: Zionism in an Arab Country: Iraqi Jews in the 20thCentury (Routledge 2004) and From Baghdad to Ramat-Gan: Iraqi Jews in Israel (Yad Ben ZviPublishers 2009, Hebrew).

HB 9781845196165 £67.50 July 2014 Sussex Academic Press 256 pages

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