Of Historical Interest
This page includes historical “odds and end” that don’t neatly fit in any other category. (It does not include original source documents, listed on a separate page.)
Azzam’s Genocidal Threat by David Barnett and Efraim Karsh, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2011 [PDF]: The definitive source of the October 1947 threat by the Arab League’s first secretary-general that the establishment of a Jewish state would lead to “a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades.”
How Israel won the Six-Day War by Yossi Melman, Haaretz, March 31, 2011: A double agent and his long-overlooked chief handler together pulled off one of the most remarkable deceptions in Israeli intelligence history.
Benny Morris’s Shocking Interview by Baruch Kimmerling, History News Network, January 26, 2004
The Iron Wall by Zeev Jabotinsky: “Agreement with Arabs Impossible at present; Zionism Must Go Forward,” Razsviet (translated from Russian), November 4, 1923
Other resources:
- Online book: “The birth of Israel–the Drama as I saw it” by Jorge Garcia-Granados, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948 (via University of Michigan/Hathi Trust). Garcia-Granados was a prominent Guatemalan diplomat and a member of the UN Special Commission on Palestine (UNSCOP) whose recommendations were formalized in the Partition Plan (UN General Assembly Resolution 181).
- Major Knesset Debates, 1948-1981, compiled by Netanel Lorch, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- Toldot Yisrael: Eyewitness 1948: films of stories of pre-state Israel helpers
- UN Resolution 181 – The Partition Plan by Eli E. Hertz, Myths and Facts
- “Mandate for Palestine”: The Legal Aspects of Jewish Rights by Eli E. Hertz, Myths and Facts
