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Notes
Preface: One Hill, Two Prisons and Three Agencies
1.Amos Oz, My Michael, Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1976, p. 186 (Hebrew).
2.This government official was appointed in 1950 to oversee the maintenance and selling of the real estate and lands of the Palestinians who were uprooted from Palestine in 1948.
3.Described by one of the participants in a scholarly article: Inbar, ‘The Military Attorney General and the Occupied Territories’, pp. 147–9. The article is in fact pages from Inbar’s diary from those days.
4.Gazit, The Carrot and the Stick, 1985, p. 21.
5.Inbar, ‘The Military Attorney General and the Occupied Territories’.
6.Ibid.
7.More will be said later about the censorship after the occupation. The main source for this is a report by the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, ‘Banned Books and Authors’, October 1989, http://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files2/banned_books_and_authors.pdf.
8.Gazit, The Carrot and the Stick, 1985, pp. 22–4.
9.Gazit, The Carrot and the Stick, 1985, p. 23.
10.The publisher is stated as the School for Political Science of the Hebrew University, 1963.
11.Gazit, The Carrot and the Stick, 1985, p. 26.
12.Pappe, The Forgotten Palestinians, 2011, p. 52.
13.See Hapraklit (The Advocate), February 1946, p. 58 (Hebrew).
14.In my book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, I have elaborated on what ethnic cleansing means in legal and academic terms. The gist of the discussion there shows that the international consensus is that this is a policy meant to downsize a certain group on the basis of its identity. The means by which such a population is downsized varies from expulsion to intimidation, and it is a crime under international law whether this is inflicted on the population as a whole or only on part of it. The particular means used after 1967 could be best described as incremental ethnic cleansing, which entailed a set of actions and policies, discussed in chapter six, that were intended to downsize the Palestinian population. I have elaborated in the Preface, pp. xxiv–xxv, on why the Israeli political elite decided not to enact a massive expulsion, on the scale witnessed in 1948. One can add that had they attempted it, the population would have fully resisted, and in addition, Jordan would have intervened or responded in such a way that it would have been almost impossible for the Israelis to implement it. The Egyptians might also have intervened.
Introduction: Re-reading the Narrative of Occupation
1.See Wolfe, ‘Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native’, pp.387–409, and Said, ‘Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims’, p. 7.
Chapter One: The War of Choice
1.All this was described in my book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, 2006.
2.Ibid.
3.The agreement with Jordan is covered in Shlaim, Collusion Across the Jordan, 1987.
4.He made this comment several times; the first was to the German journal Der Spiegel, on 5 November 1969.
5.I have discussed this in The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–1951, 1992, pp. 180–91.
6.I have discussed this at length in ‘The Junior Partner: Israel’s Role in the 1948 Crisis’, pp. 245–74.
7.See Shlaim, ‘Conflicting Approaches to Israel’s Relations with the Arabs’, pp. 180–201.
8.See Khaled Diab, ‘Israel’s Part in Egypt’s Revolution’, Haaretz (English), 23 July 2012.
9.Caplan, ‘ “Oom-Shmoom” Revisited: Israeli Attitudes Towards the UN and the Great Powers, 1948–1960’, pp. 167–99.
10.Ibid.
11.I have dealt more extensively with the American perspective on this in ‘Clusters of history’, pp. 1–28.
12.Sharett, Personal Diary, 1978, entry for 26 May 1955, p. 1021.
13.Rokach, Israel’s Sacred Terrorism, 1986.
14.See Pappe, ‘The Junior Partner’.
15.Ibid.
16.Ibid.
17.See Pappe, ‘Clusters of history’, pp. 1–28.
18.See Stenberg, ‘Creating a State of Belligerency’, 2009.
19.See Pappe, ‘The Junior Partner’.
20.Ibid.
21.Ibid.
22.Ibid.
23.Ibid.
24.See Segev, 1967, 2005, p. 202.
25.See Pappe, ‘The Junior Partner’.
26.Segev, 1967, 2005, pp. 196–7.
27.Alon, A Curtain of Sand, 1960, pp. 344–8.
28.See details in Bar-Joseph, ‘Rotem: The Forgotten Crisis on the Road to the 1967 War’, pp. 547–66.
29.See Mustafa, ‘The Arab–Israeli Conflict over Water Resources’, pp. 123–33.
30.Abudi and Lachish, ‘The Moked Operation’ in Shmuelevitz (ed.), The Theatre of War – Decisive Battles in Erez Israel, 2007.
31.Lenczowski, American Presidents and the Middle East, 1990, pp. 105–15.
32.Oren, Six Days of War, 2003, p. 171.
33.Morris, Israel’s Border Wars, 1948–1956, 1997.
34.The New York Times, 11 May 1997.
35.See Maariv, 2 June 1972.
36.Israel State Archives, government meetings, 8164/4-A, 21 May 1967.
37.Le Monde, 28 February 1968.
38.Israel State Archives, government meetings, 8164/4-A, 21 May 1967.
39.Ibid.
40.Ibid.
41.Ibid.
42.Ibid.
43.Israel State Archives, government meetings, 8164/4-A, 28–29 May 1967. A full report on these meetings can be found in Segev, 1967, 2005, pp. 308–09, which also features some of these quotes (it is best to read the Hebrew edition if possible).
44.Freshwater (pseudonym), ‘Policy and Intelligence: The Arab-Israeli War,’ pp. 3, 8; Charles Smith, ‘The United States and the 1967 War’, p. 188; CIA Office of Current Intelligence (OCI), ‘Overall Arab and Israeli Military Capabilities’, 23 May 1967, Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XIX, The Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1967, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2003, Document 44.
