Table of Contents
A note on the translation vii
Introduction to the English edition Noam Chomsky Irene Gendzier ix
Preface xxv
1 Between two wars 1
2 Irrefutable facts - disastrous interpretation 57
3 A war different from previous wars 79
4 Myths confronted by cruel reality 116
5 The army and politics 160
6 The diktat 179
7 The internal political arena: between continuity and change 207
Appendix 1 United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967 243
Appendix 2 Conclusions and recommendations on the plan for action in the Territories in the next four years (the Galili Document) 245
Appendix 3 Resolution 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973 251
Appendix 4 Resolution 339 (1973) of 23 October 1973 252
Appendix 5 Resolution 340 (1973) of 25 October 1973 253
Appendix 6 The six-point agreement between Israel and Egypt, 11 November 1973 255
Appendix 7 The 14 guiding principles of the Alignment's platform for the elections to the Eighth Knesset 256
Appendix 8 The secret agreements of the Arab Summit in Algiers (26-28 November 1973) 260
Appendix 9 Israel-Egypt Separation-of-Forces Agreement - 18 January 1974 267
Appendix 10 Israel-Syria Separation-of-Forces Agreement - 31 May 1974 270
Appendix 11 Provisional Political Programme of the Palestine Liberation Organization 273
Appendix 12 Seventh Arab League Summit Conference, Resolution on Palestine 276
Index 279