Arab Attitudes to Israel / Edition 1

by Yehoshafat Harkabi

Overview

Because of recent changes in the explicitly declared goals of Arabs in the Palestinian conflict, this book is of singular importance, and no scholar or expert on Middle East affairs can afford to ignore it.

This work, by a scholar described as "the doyen of Israeli Arabists," is the result of vast research into the attitude of the Arabs toward Israel, manifested both in their declared, explicit aims and in ideological exegeses on the roots of the Palestinian problem. Approximately one hundred twenty books written by Arabs and the Arab press and radio are herein analyzed. Harkabi's searching examination is objective. His detection of consistent patterns in what at first seems amorphous is convincing. If there is such a thing as a science of political psychology, Harkabi is its master.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878551682
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/15/1974
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Yehoshafat Harkabi (1921-1994) was professor and director of the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and chief of intelligence of the Israel Defense Forces from 1955 until 1959.

Table of Contents

1: The Arab Objective in The Conflict; 2: The Arab Ideology of The Conflict; 3: Hostility and The Concept of The Enemy; 4: Zionism; 5: The Jews; 6: Israel; 7: The Arabs’ Self-Image in The Conflict; 8: From Ideology to Attitude; 9: Possibilities of Change