Lion of JordanKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 9 sept 2008 - 400 páginas The first major account of the life of an extraordinary soldier and statesman, King Hussein of Jordan. Throughout his long reign (1953—1999), Hussein remained a dominant figure in Middle Eastern politics and a consistent proponent of peace with Israel. For over forty years he walked a tightrope between Palestinians and Arab radicals on the one hand and Israel on the other. Avi Shlaim reveals that Hussein initiated a secret dialogue with Israel in 1963 and spent hundreds of hours in talks with countless Israeli officials. Shlaim expertly reconstructs this dialogue from previously untapped records and first-hand accounts, significantly rewriting the history of the Middle East over the past fifty years and shedding light on the far-reaching impact of Hussein’s leadership. |
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... foreign policy: Israel, the Palestinians, the Arab world and the Great Powers. Special attention is devoted to the persistent tension in Hussein's foreign policy between the commitment to Arab nationalism and the desire to reach a modus ...
... foreign policy: Israel, the Palestinians, the Arab world and the Great Powers. Special attention is devoted to the persistent tension in Hussein's foreign policy between the commitment to Arab nationalism and the desire to reach a modus ...
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... foreign policy is the Hashemite legacy. The Hashemites are an aristocratic Arab family whose ancestral home was in the Hijaz in the western part of the Arabian Peninsula, along the Red Sea littoral. They are descendants of the prophet ...
... foreign policy is the Hashemite legacy. The Hashemites are an aristocratic Arab family whose ancestral home was in the Hijaz in the western part of the Arabian Peninsula, along the Red Sea littoral. They are descendants of the prophet ...
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... Foreign Office had kept itself and its hands mutually informed our reputation for honesty would not have suffered as it did.”7 Another promise made by the British government during the war was to support the establishment of a national ...
... Foreign Office had kept itself and its hands mutually informed our reputation for honesty would not have suffered as it did.”7 Another promise made by the British government during the war was to support the establishment of a national ...
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... foreign powers strengthened the position of the Hashemites regionally and internationally they also laid them open to the charge of serving other people's interests, of being clients and, even worse, collaborators. Abdullah was much ...
... foreign powers strengthened the position of the Hashemites regionally and internationally they also laid them open to the charge of serving other people's interests, of being clients and, even worse, collaborators. Abdullah was much ...
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... Foreign Office that Naif was involved in smuggling, black-marketeering and other forms of corruption; he dismissed him as a “bonehead” who did not “appear to possess sufficient intelligence to play any political role, either good or bad ...
... Foreign Office that Naif was involved in smuggling, black-marketeering and other forms of corruption; he dismissed him as a “bonehead” who did not “appear to possess sufficient intelligence to play any political role, either good or bad ...
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The Dismissal of Glubb | |
The Liberal Experiment | |
A Royal Coup | |
Peace Partnership with the | |
The London Agreement | |
Intifada and Disengagement | |
The Gulf Crisis and | |
From Madrid to Oslo | |
Peace Treaty | |
The Kings Peace | |
Collision Course | |
The Year of Revolution | |
Arab Foes and Jewish Friends | |
The Palestinian Challenge | |
The Road to | |
Picking Up the Pieces | |
Dialogue Across the Battle Lines | |
Civil | |
The United Arab Kingdom Plan | |
The October | |
The Road to Rabat | |
Lebanon and the Reagan Plan | |
The Last Journey | |
The Life and Legacy | 14 |
Jordanian Secret Meetings with Israeli Officials | 17 |
Chronology | 23 |
The Camp David Accords | 31 |
Interviews | 1999 |
Bibliography | 2006 |
Photo Insert | 2017 |
A Note About the Author | 2036 |
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Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace Avi Shlaim No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2008 |
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