The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

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From its foundation in 1948, Israel has persuaded key opinion-leaders in the USA and Europe to join in the chorus of its state myth: that Israel, surrounded by aggressor Arab states, sought only peace. However, increasingly a new school of Israeli historians are exposing this view as inaccurate. Trawling through Cabinet minutes, private diaries and interviewing eye-witnesses, the revisionists have shown that from 1948 onward Israel was repeatedly intransigent and that Arab leaders were far more willing to talk peace than is realized. Now, for the first time, it is Israelis telling Israelis that it is Israel that usually escalated the level of violence.

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Ahron Bregman was born in Israel but has lived in England since 1989. He has written for various academic journals and also writes for the Daily Telegraph. His book WAR AND ISRAELI SOCIETY 1948-1990s is forthcoing. Jihan El-Tahri was born in Helsinki where her father an Egyptian diplomat was posted. She has spent a number of years working as a journalist and is the co-author of LE DESTINE D'ARAFAT.