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  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Introduction to the Seventh Edition

  Part I - From the Bilu to the British Mandate’s End

  Bilu Group: Manifesto (1882)

  Theodor Herzl: The Jewish State (1896)

  The First Zionist Congress: The Basle Declaration (August 1897)

  Negib Azouri: Program of the League of the Arab Fatherland (1905)

  Sir Henry McMahon: The McMahon Letter (October 24, 1915)

  British and French Governments: The Sykes-Picot Agreement (May 15-16, 1916)

  British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour: The Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917)

  Emir Feisal and Chaim Weizmann: Agreement (January 3, 1919)

  Emir Feisal and Felix Frankfurter: Correspondence (March 3-5, 1919)

  The General Syrian Congress: Memorandum Presented to the King-CraneCommission ...

  The King-Crane Commission: Recommendations (August 28, 1919)

  Winston Churchill: The Churchill White Paper (June 1922)

  League of Nations: The British Mandate (July 24, 1922)

  British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald: The MacDonald Letter (February 13, 1931)

  The Palestine Royal Commission (Peel Commission): Report (July 1937)

  British Government: Policy Statement Against Partition (November 1938)

  British Government: The White Paper (May 17, 1939)

  The Jewish Agency for Palestine: Zionist Reaction to the White Paper (1939)

  German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini: Zionism ...

  The Biltmore Program: Towards a Jewish State (May 11, 1942)

  The Arab Office: The Arab Case for Palestine (March 1946)

  The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry: Recommendations and Comments (May 1, 1946)

  UN Special Committee on Palestine: Summary Report (August 31, 1947)

  UN General Assembly: Resolution on the Future Government of Palestine ...

  Part II - From Israel’s Independence Through the 1973 War’s Aftermath

  State of Israel: Proclamation of Independence (May 14, 1948)

  UN General Assembly: Resolution 194 (December 11, 1948)

  UN General Assembly: Resolution 303, On the Internationalization of Jerusalem ...

  State of Israel: Law of Return (July 5, 1950)

  UN Security Council: Resolution 619, Concerning Restrictions on the Passage of ...

  Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: On Zionism and Israel (1960-1963)

  United Arab Republic: Manifesto (April 1963)

  Palestine Liberation Organization: Draft Constitution (1963)

  Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: Speech at UAR Advanced Air Headquarters ...

  Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: Speech to Arab Trade Unionists (May 26, 1967)

  Muhammad Hassanain Haykal: An Armed Clash with Israel Is Inevitable—Why? (May ...

  Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: Speech to National Assembly Members (May ...

  Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: Resignation Broadcast (June 9, 1967)

  Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban: Speech at the Special Assembly of the ...

  Israeli Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin: The Right of Israel (June 28, 1967)

  Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser: We Shall Triumph (July 23, 1968)

  UN Security Council: Resolution 242 (November 22, 1967)

  Palestine National Council: The Palestinian National Charter (July 1968)

  Y. Harkabi: Fatah’s Doctrine (December 1968)

  Fatah: The Seven Points (January 1969)

  Muhammad Hassanain Haykal: The Strategy of the War of Attrition (March-April 1969)

  PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat (Abu Ammar): An Interview (August 1969)

  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: Platform (1969)

  Soviet General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev: Position on the 1973 War (October ...

  Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad: Speech (October 15, 1973)

  Egyptian President Anwar Sadat: Speech (October 16, 1973)

  UN Security Council: Resolution 338 (October 22, 1973)

  Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir: Statement in the Knesset (October 23, 1973)

  Egyptian President Anwar Sadat: Speech (April 3, 1974)

  Palestine National Council: Resolutions (June 1974)

  The Agranat Commission: Report (1974)

  George Habash: Interview (August 3, 1974)

  PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Address to the UN General Assembly (November 13, 1974)

  Y. Harkabi: The Meaning of “A Democratic Palestinian State” (1974)

  Egyptian-Israeli Accord on Sinai (September 1, 1975)

  Part III - From Camp David Through the Madrid Conference

  Harold H. Saunders: U.S. Foreign Policy and Peace in the Middle East (November ...

  The Likud Party: Platform (March 1977)

  Egyptian President Anwar Sadat: Peace with Justice (November 20, 1977)

  PLO: Six-Point Program (December 4, 1977)

  Arab League: Summit Declaration (December 5, 1977)

  Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin: Autonomy Plan for the West Bank and ...

  U.S. President Jimmy Carter: Statement on Palestinian Rights (January 4, 1978)

  UN Security Council: Resolution 425, on Lebanon (March 19, 1978)

  Camp David Summit Meeting: Frameworks for Peace (September 17, 1978)

  Egypt and Israel: Peace Treaty (March 26, 1979)

  Arab League: Summit Communiqué (March 31, 1979)

  Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: On the Camp David Agreement (September ...

  PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Interview on Camp David (November 19, 1979)

  Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad: Speech (March 8, 1980)

  European Council: Venice Declaration (June 13, 1980)

  Israeli Government: Fundamental Policy Guidelines (August 5, 1981)

  Saudi Crown Prince Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz: The Fahd Plan (August 7, 1981)

  West Bank Palestinians: Reactions to Camp David (August 30, 1981)

  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: Egypt and Israel (October 14, 1981)

  U.S. and Israel: Memorandum of Understanding (November 30, 1981)

  Israeli Law on the Golan Heights (December 14, 1981)

  Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon: Israel’s Security (December 15, 1981)

  Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir: Israel’s Role in a Changing Middle ...

  Egyptian Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The Foreign Policy of Egypt in ...

  U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz: Congressional Testimony (July 12, 1982)

  Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin: The Wars of No Alternative and Operation ...

  U.S. President Ronald Reagan: The Reagan Plan (September 1, 1982)

  Twelfth Arab Summit Conference: Final Statement (September 9, 1982)

  Jordanian Crown Prince Al-Hasan Bin Talal: Jordan’s Quest for Peace (Fall 1982)

  The Kahan Commission: Report (February 7, 1983)

  PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Speech to Palestine National Council (February 14, 1983)

  Palestine National Council: Political Statement (February 22, 1983)

  Barry Rubin: United It Stalls, The PLO (March 21, 1983)

  Jordanian Government: Refusal to Join the Reagan Peace Initiative (April 10, 1983)

  Lebanon and Israel: Truce Agreement (May 17, 1983)

  Said Musa: Interview on Internal Dissent (May 26, 1983)

  Khalid al-Hasan: On the Dissident Rebellion (May 27, 1983)

  King Hussein of Jordan: Speech to the Palestine National Council (November 22, 1984)

  Jordan-PLO: Joint Communiqué (Fe
bruary 11, 1985)

  King Hussein of Jordan: Ending the Jordan-PLO Initiative (February 19, 1986)

  Israel and Jordan: “The London Document” (April 11, 1987)

  PLO Executive Committee: On the Intifada (December 1987)

  West Bank-Gaza Palestinian Leaders: Fourteen Points (January 14, 1988)

  Unified National Command of the Intifada: Call No. 6 (February 4, 1988)

  U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz: Plan (March 6, 1988)

  PLO Executive Committee: Statement on the Intifada (April 1988)

  United National Command of the Intifada: Calls No. 12, 16, and 18 (April-May 1988)

  King Hussein of Jordan: Disengagement from the West Bank (July 31, 1988)

  Hamas: Charter (August 1988)

  Palestine National Council: Political Resolution (November 15, 1988)

  Palestine National Council: Declaration of Independence (November 15, 1988)

  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: The Inevitability of Peace (January 21, 1989)

  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: Peace Plan (May 14, 1989)

  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: Ten-Point Plan (September 4, 1989)

  PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Speech on the Intifada (September 1989)

  U.S. Secretary of State James Baker: Five-Point Plan (October 10, 1989)

  Iraqi President Saddam Hussein: Speech to the Arab Cooperation Council ...

  PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: The PLO and the Gulf Crisis (December 13, 1990)

  Palestine National Council: Political Communiqué (September 28, 1991)

  U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians (October 18, 1991)

  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Palestinian Delegation Leader Haydar ...

  Part IV - The Apparent Approach of Peace

  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Inaugural Speech (July 13, 1992)

  PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Speech for Fatah’s Anniversary (December 31, 1992)

  Mahmoud Darwish: Resigning from the PLO Executive Committee (August 1993)

  Israel and PLO: Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government ...

  Israel and PLO: Agreed Minutes to the Declaration of Principles on Interim ...

  U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and PLO ...

  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Speech to Knesset (September 21, 1993)

  Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad: Reaction to Israel-PLO Agreement (October 1, 1993)

  Hani al-Hasan: Opposition to the Israel-PLO Accord (October 9, 1993)

  West Bank-Gaza Palestinian Leaders: Memorandum to Chairman Yasir Arafat ...

  Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad and U.S. President Bill Clinton: Statement on ...

  Israel and PLO: Cairo Agreement (March 4, 1994)

  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Speeches at ...

  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Speech to Knesset (April 18, 1994)

  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Accepting the UNESCO Peace Prize (July 6, 1994)

  Israel and Jordan: The Washington Agreement (July 26, 1994)

  King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Speeches on ...

  Israel and Jordan: Peace Treaty (October 26, 1994)

  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat, and Israeli ...

  Sufyan Abu-Zayidah: Interview (January 27, 1995)

  Israeli and Palestinian Authority: Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza ...

  Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: Speech at Peace Rally (November 4, 1995)

  Israel and Palestinian Authority: Hebron Accords (January 15, 1997)

  U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher: Letter to Israeli Prime Minister ...

  Alessandra Antonelli: From the Battlefield to the Table (February 27, 1998)

  Hasan Asfour and Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazin): Reflections on the Oslo Agreement’s ...

  Israel and Palestinian Authority: The Wye River Memorandum (October 23, 1998)

  King Hussein of Jordan: Remarks at Wye River Agreement Signing Ceremony ...

  U.S. President Bill Clinton: Speech to the Palestinian Leadership (December 14, 1998)

  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak: Presentation of the Government to the ...

  Israeli Government: Basic Guidelines (July 1999)

  U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Syrian ...

  UN Security Council: Israel’s Withdrawal from Lebanon (June 19, 2000)

  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak: Leaving for the Camp David Talks (July 10, 2000)

  U.S. President Bill Clinton: Statement after the Camp David Peace Talks (July ...

  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak: Statement after the Camp David Talks (July ...

  PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat: Speech at the Arab Summit (October 21, 2000)

  Marwan Barghuti: “The Israelis Must Leave the Territories” (October 26, 2000)

  U.S. President Bill Clinton: The Clinton Plan (December 23, 2000)

  Yoel Marcus: “If They Want It, They’ll Take It” (December 26, 2000)

  Palestinian Negotiating Team: Remarks and Questions Regarding the Clinton Plan ...

  U.S. President Bill Clinton: Summarizing His Experience with the Peace Process ...

  Part V - Conflict Renewed

  Arab League Summit: “Beirut Declaration” (March 28, 2002)

  U.S. President George W. Bush: A New Palestinian Leadership (June 24, 2002)

  Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas: Speech at Palestinian ...

  U.S. President George W. Bush: Letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ...

  Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: Disengagement Plan (May 28, 2004)

  Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: Speech at Start of Gaza Pullout (August ...

  Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: UN General Assembly (September 15, 2005)

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: Speech to Syria’s Journalist Union (September ...

  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The World without Zionism Conference ...

  Lebanese Political Leader Walid Jumblatt: Television Interview (July 20, 2006)

  Hizballah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah: Interview on Al Jazeera ...

  Hizballah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah: Televised Speech (July 26, 2006)

  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: Speech to Mayors (August 28, 2006)

  UN Security Council: Ceasefire Resolution (August 11, 2006)

  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Speech to the UN General Assembly ...

  Hamas-Fatah: Mecca Agreement (February 8, 2007)

  Palestinian Authority Leader Mahmoud Abbas: Letter to Ismail Haniya (February ...

  Palestinian Authority: Hamas-Fatah Coalition Platform (March 17, 2007)

  Acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Ahmad Bahr: Speech (April ...

  Palestinian Authority Leader Mahmoud Abbas: Address to the PLO Central Council ...

  Fathi Hamad, Palestinian Legislative Council Member (Hamas): Speech (August 10, 2007)

  U.S. President George W. Bush: Annapolis Conference (November 27, 2007)

  PENGUIN BOOKS THE ISRAEL-ARAB READER

  WALTER LAQUEUR is a former director of the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History in London as well as head of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He has taught at Georgetown, Harvard, Brandeis, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Last Days of Europe and more than twenty other books, which have been translated into as many languages, and was the founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary History.

  BARRY RUBIN is the director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center, and the editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) and of Turkish Studies. He writes the Middle East column for the Jerusalem Post. His books
include The Truth about Syria; the three-volume collection PoliticalIslam; The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracyin the Middle East; Hating America: A History; Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography; The Tragedy of the Middle East; The Transformation of Palestinian Politics; Revolution Until Victory?: The Politics and History of the PLO; Cauldron of Turmoil: America in the Middle East; Istanbul Intrigues; Modern Dictators; Secrets of State: The State Department and the Struggle over U.S. Foreign Policy; Paved with Good Intentions: The AmericanExperience and Iran; The Arab States and the Palestine Conflict; IslamicFundamentalism in Egyptian Politics; The Great Powers in the Middle East, 1941-1947; and Assimilation and Its Discontents.

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  The Israel-Arab Reader edited by Walter Laqueur

  first published by Citadel Press 1969

  Revised edition published in Penguin Books (U.K.) 1970

  Third revised edition published by Bantam Books 1976

  Fourth revised and updated edition, edited by Walter Laqueur and Barry

  Rubin, published in Pelican Books 1984

  Published in Penguin Books (U.S.A.) 1991

  Fifth revised and updated edition published 1995

  Sixth revised and updated edition published 2001