The Iron Wall
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Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on Israel's most recent leaders
In the 1920s, hard-line Zionists developed the doctrine of the 'Iron Wall': negotiations with the Arabs must always…
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The first edition of the book was a detailed and well-reviewed study of Israeli policy toward its Arab neighbors in the country’s first fifty years of statehood, from 1948 to 1998.
Particular attention is given to negotiations and diplomacy before and after the major Arab-Israeli military confrontations. The second edition expands and updates the original text to take the story through January 2006, a period that saw dramatic changes in longstanding patterns of political leadership and institutional dominance. These included the death of the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat; the demise of Ariel Sharon, who fell into a coma and never…
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