Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Illusion
2. Arabs in the War
3. The Controversy about the Capture of Damascus
4. Sir Mark Sykes: His Vision and Disillusionment
5. The Miscalculation
6. Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the
Principle of Self-Determination
7. The Anglo-French Declaration of 8 November 1918
8. Cooperation or Confrontation?
9. On a Collision Course
10. An Elusive Ally
11. Trans-Jordania* and Palestine
12. Wrestling with the Palestinians
Appendices
Index
Isaiah Friedman was professor emeritus of history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He was elected senior fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford and was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Germany, Turkey and Zionism, 1897-1918; Palestine: A Twice Promised Land? Vol. 1: The British, the Arabs, and Zionism, 1915-1920; the editor of twelve volumes in the series Documents on the Rise of Israel; and co-editor of the new edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica, (2007).
-Isaiah Friedman returns again to a thorny and hotly disputed
territory, which he has made his own... He fluently describes and
analyzes the failure of British policy to maintain Britain's status
in the Middle East at the end of World War I and to make allies of
the local Muslims... The author bases his research mainly on an
abundance of documents from British government offices, private
archives and on academic literature relating to the era. And he has
struck archival gold by discovering the long-missing Arabic text of
a letter sent by the British High Commissioner in Cairo, Sir Henry
McMahon, to Hussein on October 24, 1915... Friedman's analysis
shows that the text did not create any such obligation, leaving the
way clear for Britain to back the creation of a Jewish national
home two years later... Friedman shatters popular historical
assumptions.- --Shlomo Yotvat, The Jerusalem Report -A sterling
work that enriches our appreciation of the battle waged by the
Zionist founding fathers in their struggle to establish a sovereign
state of Israel. It contains numerous lessons for present-day
diplomats engaged in seeking a resolution to the Arab-Israeli
dispute. A detailed study, with a vast array of footnotes and
references to innumerable original documents, it reveals the
mastery and erudition that Isaiah Friedman brought to bear in
tracing the campaign to delegitimize the Jewish state even before
its birth, and the manner in which that campaign was overcome. It
is a monumental work, and serves as a fitting legacy to one whose
life's labor was genuine scholarship employed in defense of a vital
cause.- --Shlomo Slonim, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs -British
Pan-Arab Policy is a fundamental reassessment of the creation of
the Palestine mandate and the futile attempt to reconcile Zionist
and Arab aims. Comprehensively researched and closely reasoned, it
is a work that will stand as a landmark in the subject.- - Wm.
Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin
"Isaiah Friedman returns again to a thorny and hotly disputed
territory, which he has made his own... He fluently describes and
analyzes the failure of British policy to maintain Britain's status
in the Middle East at the end of World War I and to make allies of
the local Muslims... The author bases his research mainly on an
abundance of documents from British government offices, private
archives and on academic literature relating to the era. And he has
struck archival gold by discovering the long-missing Arabic text of
a letter sent by the British High Commissioner in Cairo, Sir Henry
McMahon, to Hussein on October 24, 1915... Friedman's analysis
shows that the text did not create any such obligation, leaving the
way clear for Britain to back the creation of a Jewish national
home two years later... Friedman shatters popular historical
assumptions." --Shlomo Yotvat, The Jerusalem Report "A sterling
work that enriches our appreciation of the battle waged by the
Zionist founding fathers in their struggle to establish a sovereign
state of Israel. It contains numerous lessons for present-day
diplomats engaged in seeking a resolution to the Arab-Israeli
dispute. A detailed study, with a vast array of footnotes and
references to innumerable original documents, it reveals the
mastery and erudition that Isaiah Friedman brought to bear in
tracing the campaign to delegitimize the Jewish state even before
its birth, and the manner in which that campaign was overcome. It
is a monumental work, and serves as a fitting legacy to one whose
life's labor was genuine scholarship employed in defense of a vital
cause." --Shlomo Slonim, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs "British
Pan-Arab Policy is a fundamental reassessment of the creation of
the Palestine mandate and the futile attempt to reconcile Zionist
and Arab aims. Comprehensively researched and closely reasoned, it
is a work that will stand as a landmark in the subject." - Wm.
Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin
"Isaiah Friedman returns again to a thorny and hotly disputed
territory, which he has made his own... He fluently describes and
analyzes the failure of British policy to maintain Britain's status
in the Middle East at the end of World War I and to make allies of
the local Muslims... The author bases his research mainly on an
abundance of documents from British government offices, private
archives and on academic literature relating to the era. And he has
struck archival gold by discovering the long-missing Arabic text of
a letter sent by the British High Commissioner in Cairo, Sir Henry
McMahon, to Hussein on October 24, 1915... Friedman's analysis
shows that the text did not create any such obligation, leaving the
way clear for Britain to back the creation of a Jewish national
home two years later... Friedman shatters popular historical
assumptions." --Shlomo Yotvat, The Jerusalem Report "A sterling
work that enriches our appreciation of the battle waged by the
Zionist founding fathers in their struggle to establish a sovereign
state of Israel. It contains numerous lessons for present-day
diplomats engaged in seeking a resolution to the Arab-Israeli
dispute. A detailed study, with a vast array of footnotes and
references to innumerable original documents, it reveals the
mastery and erudition that Isaiah Friedman brought to bear in
tracing the campaign to delegitimize the Jewish state even before
its birth, and the manner in which that campaign was overcome. It
is a monumental work, and serves as a fitting legacy to one whose
life's labor was genuine scholarship employed in defense of a vital
cause." --Shlomo Slonim, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs "British
Pan-Arab Policy is a fundamental reassessment of the creation of
the Palestine mandate and the futile attempt to reconcile Zionist
and Arab aims. Comprehensively researched and closely reasoned, it
is a work that will stand as a landmark in the subject." - Wm.
Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin
"Isaiah Friedman returns again to a thorny and hotly disputed
territory, which he has made his own... He fluently describes and
analyzes the failure of British policy to maintain Britain's status
in the Middle East at the end of World War I and to make allies of
the local Muslims... The author bases his research mainly on an
abundance of documents from British government offices, private
archives and on academic literature relating to the era. And he has
struck archival gold by discovering the long-missing Arabic text of
a letter sent by the British High Commissioner in Cairo, Sir Henry
McMahon, to Hussein on October 24, 1915... Friedman's analysis
shows that the text did not create any such obligation, leaving the
way clear for Britain to back the creation of a Jewish national
home two years later... Friedman shatters popular historical
assumptions." --Shlomo Yotvat, The Jerusalem Report ""British
Pan-Arab Policy" is a fundamental reassessment of the creation of
the Palestine mandate and the futile attempt to reconcile Zionist
and Arab aims. Comprehensively researched and closely reasoned, it
is a work that will stand as a landmark in the subject." - Wm.
Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin
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