{"product_id":"palestine-betrayed-9780300127270","title":"Palestine Betrayed","description":"\u003cp\u003eA searing account of the UN resolution to partition Palestine  and its bloody aftermath  A tour de force. . . . With his customary in-depth archival research . . . clear presentation  and meticulous historical sensibility  Karsh argues . . . that Palestinians decided their own destiny and bear near-total responsibility for becoming refugees.Daniel Pipes  National Review  The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East  giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews  countless armed clashes  blockades  and terrorism  as well as a profound shattering of Palestinian Arab society. Its origins  and that of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict  are deeply rooted in Jewish-Arab confrontation and appropriation in Palestine. But the isolated occasions of violence during the British Mandate era (192048) suggest that the majority of Palestinian Arabs yearned to live and thrive under peaceful coexistence with the evolving Jewish national enterprise. So what was the real cause of the breakdown in relations between the two communities?  In this brave and groundbreaking book  Efraim Karsh tells the story from both the Arab and Jewish perspectives. He argues that from the early 1920s onward  a corrupt and extremist leadership worked toward eliminating the Jewish national revival and protecting its own interests. Karsh has mined many of the Western  Soviet  UN  and Israeli documents declassified over the past decade  as well as unfamiliar Arab sources  to reveal what happened behind the scenes on both Palestinian and Jewish sides. It is an arresting story of delicate political and diplomatic maneuvering by leading figuresBen Gurion  Hajj Amin Husseini  Abdel Rahman Azzam  King Abdullah  Bevin  and Truman over the years leading up to partition  through the slide to war and its enduring consequences. Palestine Betrayed is vital reading for understanding the origin of disputes that remain crucial today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280471547957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300127278","price":44.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300127270.jpg?v=1780637910","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/palestine-betrayed-9780300127270","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}