Foreword by Walter Lacquer
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Outbreak and Expansion of Hostilities
2 The Palestinians’ Organization for War
3 The Arab League’s Intervention
4 Shaping the Yishuv’s War Policy
5 The Beginnings of the Palestinians’ Mass-Flight
6 From a Civil War to Regular Warfare
7 Palestinian Society’s Collapse
8 The Arab Regular Armies’ Invasion of Palestine
9 Fighting and Flight after the Invasion
10 The Ten-Day Campaign and the Second Truce
11 The Palestinians’ Decay
12 Diplomacy and Intrigues
13 Operations in the Negev
14 The End of the War with Lebanon and Syria
15 Ending the War with Egypt and Transjordan
16 Welcoming the Refugees in the Arab States
17 From Flight to Refugeeism: Blocking the Return
Epilogue
Appendixes: I History and Invention: Was Plan D a Blueprint
for “Ethnic Cleansing?”; II Propaganda as History: What Happened
at Deir Yassin?; III Folklore
versus History: The Tantura Blood Libel
Notes
Glossary
Sources and Bibliography
Index
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