Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: The Never Ending Conflict by Mordechai Bar-On Chapter 1. The Arab Revolt 1936-1939: A Turning Point in the Stuggle Over Palestine by Yigal Eyal The Israeli-Arab War of 1948: History vs. Narratives by Yoav Gelber Israel's Armistice Wars, 1949-1956 by David Tal The Sinai War, 1956-Three Partners, Three Wars by Motti Golani "The War Over the Water" during the 1960's by Ami Gluska The Six Day War by Michael Oren The Israeli-Egyptian "War of Attrition" (1969-1970) by Dan Schueftan The Yom Kippur War by Dr. Shimon Golan The Insurgency and Counter-Insergency in Israel 1965-1985 by Benny Michelsohn The 1982 "Peace for Galilee" War: Looking Back in Anger. Between an option of a war and a war of no option by Eyal Zisser The Palestinian Intifada (1987-1991) by Reuven Aharoni "Ebb and Flow" vs. "The Al-Aksa Intifada" The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 2000-2003 by Shaul Shay Maps Index About the Editor and Contributors

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...[T]his volume has been written by an impressive array of scholars, all of whom are aknowledged authorities in the war or events that they describe. The chapters are highly readable, extremely informative and amazingly objective. -- Leslie Stein,^LSenior Research Fellow^LMacQuarie University

About the Author

MORDECHAI BAR-ON is Senior Research Fellow at Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem. He was Moshe Dayan's personal assistant during the Suez Campaign.

Reviews

"[T]his volume has been written by an impressive array of scholars, all of whom are acknowledged authorities in the war or events that they describe. The chapters are highly readable, extremely informative and amazingly objective. - Leslie Stein, Senior Research Fellow MacQuarie University"