Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

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A major new reading of the 1973 war in the Middle East, an act of Israeli hubris that planted the seeds of the current crisis

In this book, first published in Hebrew in 1975 and now available in English for the first time with an introduction by Noam Chomsky, Amnon Kapeliouk traces the policies and attitudes that led to the 1973 Arab-Israel war.
 
He describes the multiple diplomatic overtures from Egyptian presidents Nasser and Sadat after 1967 that Israel ignored or contemptuously rejected, as well as the complacent attitude that had become fully entrenched in the Israeli military establishment.
 
On the political level, the triumvirate of Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan and Israel Galili feature prominently as a study in arrogance and incompetence. Kapeliouk also notes the protest movement that arose among active-duty soldiers as well as veterans in the wake of the war demanding political accountability for the failures of the war.
 
Finally, the book examines Israel’s policy of colonizing the territories occupied in 1967, starting with the Golan Heights and later spreading to the West Bank (“Judaea and Samaria”) and the Sinai – a policy that did much to convince the leaders of Arab states that war was their only option.

Introduced by Noam Chomsky and Irene Gendzier.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781839765988
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 07/26/2022
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 503 KB

About the Author

Amnon Kapeliouk was a scholar and journalist who reported on Arab affairs for the Israeli press and was a regular contributor to Le Monde and Le Monde diplomatique. He published five books on Israel-Arab relations including a biography of Yasser Arafat, which were translated into many languages. He died in 2009.

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

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