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The Iron Wall Israel and the Arab World

Paperback • 2001 • English

The Iron Wall Israel and the Arab World

By Avi Shlaim

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About the book

Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is a fresh and informed account of the modern world's most intractable conflict. In the 1920s, hard-line Zionists developed the doctrine of the 'Iron Wall': negotiations with the Arabs must always be from a position of military strength, and only when sufficiently strong Israel would be able to make peace with her Arab neighbours. This doctrine, argues Avi Shlaim, became central to Israeli policy; dissenters were marginalized and many opportu...Show more

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9780140288704

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

The Iron Wall Israel and the Arab World

Format

Paperback

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