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ISBN: 1-316-71887-5 , 1-316-72307-0 , 1-316-10590-3

Content: Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations - ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries - from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. This period encompasses the Six-Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur War (1973), Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and an ongoing campaign of terrorism waged by the Palestine Liberation Organization against Israeli civilians. This book provides new insights into the West German radicals who collaborated in 'actions' with Palestinian terrorist groups, and confirms that East Germany, along with others in the Soviet Bloc, had a much greater impact on the conflict in the Middle East than has been generally known. A historian who has written extensively on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Jeffrey Herf now offers a new chapter in this long, sad history.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016). , Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 East Germany and the Six-Day War of June 1967 -- The Response in East Berlin -- Walter Ulbricht's Leipzig Speech of June 15, 1967 -- Defense Minister Heinz Hoffmann's Assessment of the Six-Day War -- The CIA estimates of Soviet, Soviet-bloc, and East German military assistance to "third-world"... -- 3 An anti-Israeli Left Emerges in West Germany: The Conjuncture of June 1967 -- The West German Jewish leaders during and after the Six-Day War -- The PLO Charter of 1968 -- Radicalization of the West German New Left, 1968-1969 -- Heinz Galinski and the Central Council of Jews in Germany Respond -- The orthodox and unorthodox radical Left in West Germany in 1972 -- Arab terrorist attacks, 1968-1972 -- 4 Diplomatic Breakthrough to Military Alliance: East Germany, the Arab States, and the PLO: 1969-1973 -- West German diplomats on East Germany's Middle East strategy -- Arms from the "peace state" -- Willi Stoph's support order of September 30, 1969 and the role of Gerhard Weiss -- The East German military leaders' trip to the Middle East in 1971 -- Heinz Hoffmann meets Mustafa Tlass in Damascus -- Weapons deliveries, 1972-1974 -- Speech and silence about terror: Israel at the United Nations and the Communists in East Berlin -- Arafat and PLO leaders visit East Berlin -- 5 Palestinian Terrorism in 1972: Lod Airport, the Munich Olympics, and Responses -- Black September and the attack on the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics -- Ulrike Meinhof celebrates "The Action of Black September" -- The PLO and East Germany after the Munich attack -- 6 Formalizing the East German Alliance with the PLO and the Arab States: 1973. , The admission of East Germany and West Germany to the United Nations -- The two Germanys, the United States, and the Yom Kippur War -- East German propaganda during the Yom Kippur War -- East German arms deliveries to Syria -- 7 Political Warfare at the United Nations During the Yom Kippur War of 1973 -- The exchanges between Yosef Tekoah and Yakov Malik in the Security Council -- Yosef Tekoah's detailed accounts of attacks on Israel's northern towns -- 8 1974: Palestinian Terrorist Attacks on Kiryat Shmona and Ma'alot and Responses in East Germany... -- The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack on Kiryat Shmona, April 11, 1974 -- G. McMurtrie Godley's memos on Arab reaction to the attack on Kiryat Shmona -- The Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attacks Ma'alot, May 18, 1974 -- The East Germans greet the PLO in East Berlin in August 1974 -- The West German radical Left responds to the PLO's terrorism -- 9 The United Nations "Zionism Is Racism" Resolution of November 10, 1975 -- 10 The Entebbe Hijacking and the West German "Revolutionary Cells" -- The path from Frankfurt/Main to Entebbe -- West German Jewish leaders respond to Entebbe -- The importance and the limits of leftists' criticism of Entebbe -- The PFLP, the RAF, and the hot autumn of 1977 -- Hans-Joachim Klein on the Revolutionary Cells and his "Return to Humanity" -- 11 An Alliance Deepens: East Germany, the Arab states, and the PLO: 1978-1982 -- The Stasi's dilemma and its Eurocentric definition of counterterrorism -- The Stasi and the PLO intelligence service formal cooperation agreements of 1979-1980 -- Candid discussions about terrorism in East Berlin between Abu Ayad and Stasi officials -- "Action Friendship": Weapons deliveries from the Stasi and the Defense Ministry to the PLO: 1976-1982 -- East German relations with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. , Weapons deliveries and agreements by the East German Defense Ministry -- East German relations with the PLO, PFLP, and DFLP -- The PLO and the East German Defense Ministry, 1980-1982 -- East Germany's special relationship with Syria -- Mustafa Tlass's The Matzo of Zion -- International Communism and military training in East Germany -- 12 Terrorism from Lebanon to Israel's "Operation Peace for Galilee": 1977-1982 -- Israel's UN Ambassador Yehuda Blum on PLO terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians: 1980-1981 -- East German responses -- Blum on the PLO attacks and the arms buildup in Lebanon, 1981-1982 -- Arafat in East Berlin in spring 1982 -- 13 The Israel-PLO War in Lebanon of 1982 -- Political warfare at the UN and in Germany over Israel's war in Lebanon -- 14 Loyal Friends in Defeat: 1983-1989 and After -- 15 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Newspapers, Journals, Radio Stations -- Published Documents and Memoirs -- Index. , English

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Language: English