• List of Maps
• Preface
• Introduction
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• Zionism and the Mandate, 1882–1948
• Timeline
• Manifesto, Summer 1882 – Bilu
• Auto-Emancipation, October 17, 1882 – Leon Pinsker
• A Solution of the Jewish Question, January 17, 1896 – Theodor Herzl
• The Basle Program, August 31, 1897 – First Zionist Congress
• The First Zionist Congress, August–September 1897 – Ahad Ha’am
• The Collective, 1904–1909: Memoir – Manya Shochat
• Balfour Declaration, November 2, 1917 – Lord Balfour, for the British Cabinet
• Zionist Manifesto, December 21, 1917 – London Bureau of the Zionist Organization
• Palestine White Paper, June 3, 1922 – Winston Churchill, for the British Government
• Mandate for Palestine, July 24, 1922 – Council of the League of Nations
• The Iron Wall, November 4, 1923 – Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky
• Report Conclusions, July 7, 1937 – Peel Commission
• The Arab Awakening, 1938 – George Antonius
• White Paper, May 17, 1939 – Malcolm MacDonald, for the British Government
• The Biltmore Program, May 11, 1942 – Emergency Committee of Zionist Affairs
• Charter, March 22, 1945 – League of Arab States
• Status-Quo Agreement, June 19, 1947 – David Ben-Gurion, for the Jewish Agency Executive
• Proposals to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, July 23, 1947 – Ihud
• Resolution 181, November 29, 1947 – United Nations General Assembly
• Meeting of the National Administration and the Formation of a
• Provisional Government of Israel, May 12, 1948: Memoir – Zeev Sharef
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• The New State of Israel, 1948–1956
• Timeline
• Domestic Issues
• Proclamation of the State of Israel,May 14, 1948 – Jewish Agency Executive
• The War of Independence, May 1948: Memoir – David Ben-Gurion
• First Ordinance of the State of Israel, May 19, 1948 – Provisional Government of Israel
• Ordinance on the Israel Defense Forces, May 26, 1948 – Provisional Government of Israel
• Declaration of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration, July 10, 1948 – League of Arab States
• Resolution 194, December 11, 1948 – United Nations General Assembly
• Jewish Religion and Israeli Democracy, 1948–1953: Memoir and Analysis – Isaac Olshan
• The Debate on a Constitution, February 1 and
• June 13, 1950 – Israel First Knesset
• The Law of Return, July 5, 1950 – Israel First Knesset
• The Absorption of Immigrants, August 1951 – Giora Josephtal
• The German Reparations, December 1951–March 1952:
• Memoir – Nahum Goldmann
• The Transformation of the Israeli Army, 1952–1955: Memoir – Moshe Dayan
• Memorandum on the Mishap in Egypt, October 1954 – Benyamin Givli •
• Foreign Policy Issues
• The Jordanian-Israeli Negotiations, March 22–23, 1949: Memoir – Abdullah al-Tal
• Armistice Agreement between Syria and Israel, July 20, 1949
• Report Conclusions, November 20, 1951 – United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
• The Challenge of the Fedayeen, February–August 1955: Analysis – Ehud Yaari
• Israel’s Foreign and Middle Eastern Policy, May 28, 1955 - Moshe Sharett
• The Clash with David Ben-Gurion over Defense Policies, July 31, 1955 - Moshe Sharett
• The Quest for Arms, 1948–1967: Memoir – Shimon Peres
• The Anderson Mission, January–March 1956: Memoir – Yaacov Herzog
• The Background to the Sinai Campaign, November 1956: Memoir – Yaacov Herzog
• Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, 1948–1959: Analysis – Walter Eytan
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• From the Sinai Campaign to the Six-Day War, 1956–1967
• Timeline
• Domestic Issues
• The Development Town, 1956–1966: Analysis – Emmanuel Marx
• Social and Ethnic Tensions in Wadi Salib, 1959: Memoir – David Ben-Gurion
• The Capture of Adolf Eichmann, May 24 and August 8, 1960 – David Ben-Gurion
• The Lavon Affair, 1961: Analysis – J. L. Talmon
• Jewish Religion and Israeli Nationality: The Brother Daniel Case, March 14, November 19, December 6, 1962 – Israel Supreme Court
• The Transition from David Ben-Gurion to Levi Eshkol, June 1963: Memoir – Teddy Kollek
• The Formation of a Center–Right-Wing Bloc, February–May 1965: Memoir – Yohanan Bader
• From “Israeli Arabs” to “Israel’s Palestinian Citizens,”1948–1996: Analysis – Itamar Rabinovich
• Foreign Policy Issues
• The Formulation of the Eisenhower Doctrine, January–March 1957 – Dwight David Eisenhower
• David Ben-Gurion and the Policy of the Periphery, 1958: Analysis – Michael Bar-Zohar
• David Ben-Gurion and Israel’s Regional and International Position, 1958: Analysis – Michael Bar-Zohar
• Israel’s Beginnings in Africa, 1956–1973: Memoir – Ehud Avriel
• American Arms for Israel, 1960–1964: Memoir – Shimon Peres
• The Arab Summit Conferences, May 31, 1965 – Gamal Abdul Nasser
• The Conflict with Israel, March 1966 – Syrian Ba’ath Party
• The Last Stages of the Crisis, May 1967: Memoir – Yitzhak Rabin
• The Nasser-Hussein Reconciliation, May 1967: Memoir – Zayd al-Rifa’i
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• Years of Euphoria, 1967–1973
• Timeline
• Domestic Issues
• Administering the West Bank, June 1967: Analysis – Shabtai Teveth
• The Conflict between Moshe Dayan and Pinhas Sapir, 1968: Analysis – Shabtai Teveth
• The Israeli Left, 1970: Analysis – Amnon Rubinstein
• The Black Panthers, 1971: Analysis – Lea Ben-Dor
• Foreign Policy Issues
• The Land-for-Peace Principle, June 19, 1967 – Government of Israel
• The Soviet Union and the Six-Day War, June 19, 1967 – Alexei Kosygin
• The Khartoum Resolutions, September 1, 1967 – Fourth Arab Summit Conference
• Resolution 242, November 22, 1967 – United Nations Security Council
• The Palestine National Charter, July 17, 1968 – Palestine Liberation Organization
• The War of Attrition, 1968–1970: Memoir – Ezer Weizman
• The Jordanian Crisis, September 1970: Memoir – Yitzhak Rabin
• Political Program, January 12, 1973 – Palestine Liberation Organization
• The Eve of the Yom Kippur War, Spring–Summer 1973: Memoir – Hanoch Bartov
• The Turning Point in the Yom Kippur War, October 16, 1973 – David Elazar
• The Yom Kippur War, October 1973: Analysis – Mordechai Gazit
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• War, Peace, and War Again, 1973–1982
• Timeline
• Domestic Issues
• Interim Report, April 1, 1974 – Agranat Commission
• The Protest Movements in the Aftermath of the Yom Kippur War, June 7, 1974 – Motti Ashkenazi
• Israel’s Road to Feminism, 1973–2000: Analysis – Hanna Herzog
• Prospects for the New Government, May 19–20, 1977 – Menahem Begin
• The Ideology of the National Religious Party, 1977: Analysis – Yehuda Ben-Meir
• Opinion Paper, January 1978 – Gush Emunim
• A Soviet Jewish Intellectual Abroad, December 1978 – Simon Markish
• Manifesto, March 25, 1979 – National Committee for the Defense of Arab Lands
• Platform, 1980 – Peace Now
• The 1981 Elections, Fall 1981: Analysis – Asher Arian
• Foreign Policy Issues
• Resolution 338, October 22, 1973 – United Nations Security Council
• Decision to Accept Resolution 338, October 22, 1973 – Israeli Cabinet
• The Six-Point Agreement between Egypt and Israel, November 11, 1973
• Sixth Arab Summit Conference, Algiers, Overview and Resolutions, November 28, 1973 – League of Arab States
• Egyptian-Israeli Disengagement, December 1973–January 1974: Analysis – William B. Quandt
• Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Israel, January 18, 1974
• Seventh Arab Summit Conference, Rabat Resolutions, October 29, 1974 – League of Arab States
• Political Program, June 9, 1974 – Palestine Liberation Organization
• Disengagement Agreement between Egypt and Israel, September 4, 1975
• Memorandum of Agreement between the United States and Israel regarding the Geneva Peace Conference, September 17, 1975
• Resolution 3379 (Anti-Zionist Resolution), November 10, 1975 – United Nations General Assembly
• Speech to the General Assembly on the Anti-Zionist Resolution, November 10, 1975 – Chaim Herzog
• The United States and the Palestinian Issue, December 1, 1975 – Harold H. Saunders
• Yigal Allon in the Palace of the Shah, August 1976: Memoir – Uri Lubrani
• Speeches to the Knesset, November 20, 1977 – Anwar Sadat and Menahem Begin
• Autonomy Plan, December 28, 1977 – Government of Israel
• Resolutions 425 and 426, March 19, 1978 – United Nations Security Council
• Camp David Accords, September 17, 1978
• Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt, March 26, 1979
• The West Bank and Gaza within the Framework of a Middle East Peace Settlement, 1948–1979: Analysis – Yigal Allon
• A Survey of Israel’s Contacts with Jordan, April 25, 1980: Analysis – Moshe Zak
• The Reagan Peace Plan, September 1, 1982 – Ronald Reagan
• The War in Lebanon, Summer 1982: Memoir – Ariel Sharon
• Report on the 1982 War in Lebanon, February 7, 1983 – Kahan Commission
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• From War in Lebanon to Hope for Peace in Madrid, 1982–1991
• Timeline
• Domestic Issues
• On Behalf of Pluralism, December 1982 – Amos Oz
• The New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past, Autumn 1988: Analysis of 1947–1949 – Benny Morris
• The “New Historians”: The Past Is Not a Foreign Country, 1988–1996: Analysis – Anita Shapira
• The Quandaries of an Israeli Minister of Absorption, 1989–1994: Memoir – Yair Tzaban
• The Ethiopian Emigration, May 1991: Memoir – Micha Feldman
• Foreign Policy Issues
• The Hezbollah Program: An Open Letter, February 16, 1985 – Hezbollah
• The London Agreement between Jordan and Israel, April 11, 1987
• The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, August 18, 1988 – Hamas
• The Madrid Middle East Peace Conference, October 30–November 2, 1991: Memoir – James A. Baker
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• Chapter 7. A Decade of Hope, 1991–2000
• Timeline
• Domestic Issues
• Position Papers, 1988 – Meimad
• Speech to the Knesset on the 1992 Elections, July 13, 1992 – Yitzhak Rabin
• Alice Miller v. Minister of Defense, November 8, 1995 – Israel Supreme Court
• United Mizrahi Bank v. Migdal Cooperative Village, November 9, 1995 – Israel Law Review
• Report on Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination, 1996 – Shamgar Commission
• Arye Deri’s Speech of April 23, 1997: Analysis – Aryeh Dayan
• Report on the Conversion Law, January 22, 1998 – Neeman Commission
• Arab Citizens of Palestine: Little to Celebrate, 1998:Analysis – Azmi Bishara
• A Russian Immigrant Looks at Israeli (or Jewish?) Culture, 1998: Analysis – Anna Isakova
• The 1996 and 1999 Elections in Israel, 1996, 1999: Analysis – Reuven Y. Hazan
• Between the Lines of the Election Results, May 24, 1999 – Avirama Golan
• Report on Clashes between the Security Forces and Israeli Citizens in October 2000, September 1, 2003 – Orr Commission
• Revolution and Counterrevolution: The Israel Supreme Court from the 1980s Onward, 1980–2004: Analysis – Ehud Eiran
• Foreign Policy Issues
• The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations, August 1993: Analysis – Itamar Rabinovich
• Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, September 13, 1993
• Peace Treaty between Jordan and Israel, October 26, 1994
• Speech to the Knesset, October 27, 1994 – William Jefferson Clinton
• Opposition to Any Accommodation with Israel, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999 – Hamas
• Oslo II Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, September 28, 1995
• Amendment to the Palestine National Charter,
• May 4, 1996 – Palestinian Authority
• Wye River Memorandum between Israel and the Palestine Liberation
• Organization, October 23, 1998
• The Appeal of the Palestinian People on the Fiftieth Anniversary of al-Naqba, 1948–1998 – Mahmoud Darwish
• Resolution on Withdrawal from Lebanon, March 5, 2000 – Government of Israel
• Proposal for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, December 23, 2000 – William Jefferson Clinton
• Evolution of Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations, 2000–2001: Analysis – Martin Indyk
• Mitchell Report, May 4, 2001 – Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee
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• Postscript, after 2000
• Timeline
• The Arab Peace Initiative (Beirut Declaration), March 28, 2002 – League of Arab States
• Remarks on the Middle East, June 24, 2002 – George W. Bush
• A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, April 30, 2003 – Government of the United States
• Israel and Iraq after the Fall of Saddam Hussein, March 2004 – Gal Luft
• Resolution regarding the Disengagement Plan, June 6, 2004 – Government of Israel
• Speech to the World without Zionism Conference, Teheran, October 28, 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Speech to the Arab Lawyers Union Annual Convention, January 21, 2006 – Bashar al-Assad
• Speech to the Knesset on Israel’s New Government, May 4, 2006 – Ehud Olmert
• Speech to the Knesset on the Israeli-Hezbollah Summer War, July 17, 2006 – Ehud Olmert
• Resolution 1701, August 11, 2006 – United Nations Security Council
• Speech at the Rabin Memorial Ceremony, Tel Aviv, November 4, 2006 – David Grossman
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• Appendices
• Appendix 1. Presidents of the State of Israel, 1949–2007
• Appendix 2. Chiefs of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, 1939–2007
• Appendix 3. Governments of Israel, 1948–2006
• Appendix 4. Valid Votes for Prime Minister Elections, 1996, 1999, 2001
• Appendix 5. Jewish and Non-Jewish Population of Palestine-Israel, 1517–2004
• Appendix 6. Jewish Settlements Established in Palestine, Israel, and the Administered Territories by Region and Period of Settlement, before 1870–1997
• Appendix 7. Immigration to Israel, 1948–2004
• Appendix 8. Immigrants to Israel from Arab Countries, 1948–2004
• Appendix 9. American Immigration to Israel, 1948–2004
• Appendix 10. Jewish Immigration to Israel from the Soviet Union and Former Soviet Union, 1968–2004
• Appendix 11. Change in Level of Consumer Price Indices, 1973–2005
• Appendix 12. Number of Institutions and Students in the Educational System, 1948–2005
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• Glossary
• Index
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