Umfang:
1 online resource (449 pages)
ISBN:
9780231526586
Inhalt:
A revealing investigation into the corporate and strategic interests that have long been at the root of U.S. policy toward Israel and the Palestinians.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Paperback Edition: The U.S. Record on Israwl and Palestine, 1948 -- Introduction: Open Secrets -- Part I: The Postwar Petroleum Order and the Palestine Question, 1945-1946 -- 1. The Primacy of Oil -- 2. The Palestine Question: 1945 -- Part II: The Question of Partition and the Oil Connection, 1947-1948 -- 3. The Critical Year: 1947 -- 4. The Winter of Discontent: 1948 -- 5. The Oil Connection -- Part III: Beware "Anomalous Situations," 1948 -- 6. The Transformation of Palestine -- 7. Truce and Trusteeship -- 8. Recognition and Response -- Part IV: Rethinking U.S. Policy in Palestine/Israel, 1948 -- 9. Reconsidering U.S. Policy in Palestine -- 10. The Palestine Refugee Problem -- 11. The State Department on the Record -- Part V: The End as the Beginning, 1948-49 -- 12. The PCC, Armistice, Lausanne, and Palestinian Refugees -- 13. The View from the Pentagon and the National Security Council -- 14. The Israeli-U.S. Oil Connection and Expanding U.S. Oil Interests -- Part VI: In Place of a Conclusion -- Reflections on Discovery, Denial, and Deferral -- Notes -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780231152884
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780231152884
Sprache:
Englisch
