The bride and the dowry
Subtitle: Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the aftermath of the June 1967 War
By: Avi Raz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780300171945
Subjects: Influence; Israel-Arab War, 1967; Arab-Israeli conflict
Description: "Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its history had something concrete to offer its Arab neighbors: it could trade land for peace. Yet the political deadlock persisted after the guns fell silent. This book asks why.

Avi Raz places Israel's conduct under an uncompromising lens. His penetrating book examines the critical two years following the June war and substantially revises our understanding of how and why Israeli-Arab secret contacts came to naught. Mining newly declassified records in Israeli, American, British, and United Nations archives, as well as private papers of individual participants, Raz dispels the myth of overall Arab intransigence and arrives at new and unexpected conclusions. In short, he concludes that Israel's postwar diplomacy was deliberately ineffective because its leaders preferred land over peace with its neighbors. The book throws a great deal of light not only on the post-1967 period but also on the problems and pitfalls of peacemaking in the Middle East today."--Pub. website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The two options: 5 June-early July 1967; title: The Jerusalem syndrome: late June-July 1967; title: In search of docile leadership: July-September 1967; title: The right of no return: June-September 1967; title: An entity versus a king: September-November 1967; title: A one-way dialogue: December 1967-January 1968; title: Go-betweens: February-early May 1968; title: The double game redoubled: mid-May-October 1968; title: "The whole world is against us": epilogue.