The Origin of the Arab-Israeli Arms Race: Arms, Embargo, Military Power and Decision in the 1948 Palestine War - Rilegato

Ilan, Amitzur

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ISBN 10: 0814737587 ISBN 13: 9780814737583

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

On May 29, 1948, two weeks after five regular Arab armies invaded Palestine in an attempt to erase the lately established Jewish state, the UN Security Council imposed an embargo, which banned the supply of arms, war materials, and other forms of military aid to the parties directly involved in the Palestine conflict. During the embargo the Arab-Israeli war was fought and decided, and the concluding armistice of 1949 between the rival parties marked a new era in the history of the Middle East.
What, Amitzur Ilan asks, was the link between the embargo and the conclusion of the war, and how did the concluding armistice mark a new era in the history of the Middle East? Employing a large number of Israeli, British, American, and Czech documents, Ilan concludes that a study of the relative strengths of the two sides at different junctures in the war must be determined not by the number of arms possessed but also by the actual utility of those arms.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Amitzur Ilan is Lecturer in the American Studies and History Departments at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0814737587
• ISBN 13: 9780814737583
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 287