Table of Contents

1: Israel, the Arab States, and the Palestinians after the 1948 War
2: Infiltration
3: Arab Attitudes and Policies Towards Infiltration, 1949-55
4: The Costs of Infiltration
5: The Israeli Defensive Responses to Infiltration
6: The Beginning of the Retaliatory Policy
7: Raiding and Counter-Raiding, 1951-1953
8: Qibya
9: Israel, the Arab States, and the Great Powers, 1952-1956
10: Sharett's Year, 1954
11: The Gaza Raid and After
12: Countdown to a War
Afterword: The Sinai/Suez War and the End of the Gaza Fedayeen
Conclusion
Biographical Notes

Reviews

Timely ... an impressive work, scholarly, balanced and searching ... Morris lets the facts speak for themselves The Observer There can be nothing but praise for Dr Morris's latest book ... makes uncomfortable reading, but is nevertheless of fundamental importance for understanding the evolution of Israeli policy and the attitude of the major powers, particularly Britain and the United States Jewish Chronicle Morris analyses effectively the interplay between different Israeli decision-making authorities, military and civilian, local and central ... this book confirms and lends depth to the authoritative picture of the Arab exodus in Morris's previous work ... Morris's works provide the fullest, best documented, and most fair-minded examination of the subject yet published. They are likely to remain the standard works on the topic for the foreseeable future. Mediterranean Historical Review