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Introduction Notes Introduction 1. I use the term ‘Occupied Territories’ to describe the areas occupied by Israel after the Six Day War; these include the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula and what are now commonly referred to as the Occupied Palestinian Territories, that is, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. 2. See, for example: Gazit, Shlomo. Trapped (Tel Aviv, Zmora- Bitan, 1985) [in Hebrew] p. 137. 3. See, for example: Cohen, Avner. Israel and the Bomb (New York, Columbia University Press, 1999). 4. Sasson, Moshe. Talking Peace (Or Yehuda, Ma‘ariv Book Guild, 2004) [in Hebrew] pp. 274– 275. 5. Isaac, Rael Jean. Israel Divided: Ideological Politics in the Jewish State (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976) p. 105. 6. Tzur, Tzvi. Settlements and the Borders of Israel (Tel Aviv, Yad Tabenkin, 1980) [in Hebrew] p. 20; Admoni, Yehiel. Decade of Discretion: Settlement Policy in the Territories 1967– 1977 (Tel Aviv, Yad Tabenkin, 1992) [in Hebrew] pp. 188– 189. 7. Admoni. Decade of Discretion, pp. 70– 71. 8. Bacharach, Peter and Morton Baratz (1963) ‘Decisions and Nondecisions: An Analytical Framework’ The American Political Science Review 57(3) pp. 632– 642. 9. Hill, Christopher. The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p. 103. 10. Pedatzur, Reuven. The Triumph of Embarrassment: Israel and the Territories after the Six Day War (Tel Aviv, Yad Tabenkin, 1996) [in Hebrew] p. 161. 11. Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (London, Penguin Books, 2000) pp. 316– 318. 12. Hill, The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy, p. 103. 13. Van Arkadie, Brian. Benefits and Burdens: A Report on the West Bank and Gaza Strip Economies since 1967 (New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1977) pp. 37– 38. 14. Gazit, Trapped, pp. 32– 33. 15. Hill, The Changing Politics of Foreign Policy, p. 103. 16. Heywood, Andrew. Politics (New York, Palgrave Foundations, 2002) p. 401. 17. Hagan, Joe D. ‘Domestic Political Explanations in the Analysis of Foreign Policy’. In: Neack, Laura, Hey, Jeanne and Haney, Patrick J. (eds) Foreign Policy Analysis Continuity and Change in its Second Generation (Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1995) pp. 122– 125. 18. Klieman, Aaron S. Israel and the World after 40 Years (New York, Pergamon- Brassey, 1990) p. 73. 19. Beilin, Yossi, interview (5.06.2007 Tel Aviv). Beilin, Yossi. The Price of Unity: The History of the Labour Party to the Yom Kippur War (Tel Aviv, Revivim, 1985) [in Hebrew] pp. 215– 216. 189 190 Notes 20. Beilin, Yossi, interview. 21. Izhar, Uri. Between Vision and Power: The History of Ahdut- Ha‘ avoda- Poalei- Zion Party (Tel Aviv, Yad Tabenkin, 2002) [in Hebrew] p. 424. 22. Medding, Peter. Mapai in Israel: Political Organisation and Government in a New Society (London, Cambridge University Press, 1972) pp. 225– 226. 23. Lochery, Neill. The Israeli Labour Party: In the Shadow of the Likud (Reading, Ithaca Press, 1997) pp. 12– 13. 24. Teveth, Shabtai. Shearing Time/Calaban (Israel, Yish- Dor, 1992) [in Hebrew] p. 477. 25. Yania, Natan. Political Crises in Israel (Jerusalem, Keter, 1982) [in Hebrew] pp. 173– 174. 26. Lochery, The Israeli Labour Party, pp. 56– 57. 27. Yishai, Yael. Land or Peace, Whither Israel? (Stanford, Hoover Institution Press, 1987) p. 196. 28. Medding, Peter. The Founding of Israeli Democracy 1948– 1967 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1990) p. 3. 29. Shapiro, Yonathan. Democracy in Israel (Ramat Gan, Massada, 1977) [in Hebrew] pp. 186– 190. 30. Beilin, The Price of Unity, p. 45. 31. Shapiro, Yonathan. Politicians as a Hegemonic Class: The Case of Israel (Tel Aviv, Sifriat Hapoalim 1996) [in Hebrew] p. 111. 32. Oren, Michael B. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (New York, Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 309. 33. Segev, Tom. Israel in 1967 (Jerusalem, Keter Books, 2005) [in Hebrew] p. 104. 34. Seliktar, Ofira. New Zionism and the Foreign Policy System of Israel (London, Croom Helm, 1986) p. 154. 35. Lustick, Ian. Unsettled States: Disputed Lands (Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1993) pp. 387– 390. 36. Sella, Amnon and Yael Yishai. Israel: The Peaceful Belligerent (London, Macmillan in association with St Anthony’s College Oxford, 1986) p. 167. 37. Harris, W.W. Taking Root: Israeli Settlements in the West Bank, the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip 1967– 1980 (New York, Research Studies Press, 1980) pp. 135– 138. 38. Aronoff, Myron J. Power and Ritual in the Israel Labour Party: A Study in Political Anthropology (New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1993) pp. 242– 243. 39. Izhar, Between Vision and Power, p. 394. 40. Segev, Israel in 1967, p. 145. 41. Shapiro, Politicians as a Hegemonic Class, p. 108. 42. Segev, Israel in 1967, p. 52. 43. Segev, Israel in 1967, p. 267. 44. Karbo, Juliet. Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making: A Comparative Analysis of Foreign Policy Choices (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2012) pp. 33– 35. 45. Freilich, D. Charles (2006) ‘National Security Decision- Making in Israel: Processes, Pathologies, and Strengths’ Middle East Journal 60(4) pp. 635– 663. 46. Brownstein, Lewis (1977) ‘Decision Making in Israeli Foreign Policy: An Unplanned Process’ Political Science Quarterly 92(2) pp. 259– 279. Notes 191 47. Ben- Meir, Yehuda. National Security Decision- Making: The Israeli Case (Tel Aviv, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1987) [in Hebrew] pp. 85– 86. 48. Nisan, Mordechai. Israel and the Territories: A Study in Control 1967– 1977 (Ramat Gan, Turtledove, 1978) p. 22. 1 Early Days 1. Dayan, Moshe. Story of My Life (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976) pp. 380– 381. 2. Eshkol served as both prime minister and defence minister from 1963 to 1967. 3. Interview with Aharon Yadlin (29.9.2007 Kibbutz Hatzerim). 4. Herut’s Central Committee Meeting, 2.6.1967, ZA/18/ 2- 1e, p. 2. 5. Dayan lost his eye in the allied invasion of Vichy- held Lebanon in 1941. 6. Bowen, Jeremy. Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East (London, Simon and Schuster, 2003) p. 86. 7. Safran, Nadav. Israel: The Embattled Ally (Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981) p. 245. 8. Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist- Arab Conflict 1881– 2001 (Tel Aviv, Am Oved Publishers, 2003) [in Hebrew] p. 304. 9. Shlaim, The Iron Wall, p. 243. 10. Dayan, Story of My Life, p. 331. 11. Goldstein, Yossi. Eshkol: Biography (Jerusalem, Keter Publishers, 2003) [in Hebrew] p. 569. 12. Bleaney, Heather and Richard Lawless. The First Day of the Six Day War (London, Dryad Press, 1990) pp. 10, 16. 13. Goldstein, Eshkol, p. 569. 14. Yigal Allon Oral History (YAOH). Meeting 4, p. 21. 15. Cabinet meeting, 5.6.1967, ISA/8164/ 6- a. 16. Cabinet meeting. 17. Benziman, Uzi. Jerusalem: City without a Wall (Jerusalem, Schocken, 1973) [in Hebrew] p. 15. 18. This would have included the cities of Bethlehem, Ramallah and Nablus. 19. Teveth, Shabtai. Moshe Dayan: The Soldier, the Man, the Legend (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972) p. 385. 20. Interview with Meir Amit (June 2007 by correspondence). 21. Oren, Six Days of War, p. 225. 22. Goldstein, Eshkol, p. 571. 23. Oren, Six Days of War, p. 262. 24. Gorenberg, Gershom. The Accidental Empire and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967– 1977 (New York, Times Books, 2006) p. 54. 25. Segev, Israel in 1967, p. 378. 26. Goldstein, Eshkol, p. 571. 27. Gorenberg, The Accidental Empire, p. 37. 28. Goldstein, Eshkol, p. 574. 29. Segev, Israel in 1967, p. 390. 30. Segev, p. 407. 192 Notes 31. Interview with Shlomo Hillel (23.9.2007 Ra‘anana). 32. Interview with Shlomo Hillel. 33. Goldstein, Eshkol, p. 575. 34. Interview with Hillel. 35. Oren, Six Days of War, pp. 298– 300. 36. Seliktar, New Zionism, p. 156. 37. Mapai’s and Ben- Gurion’s animosity towards Begin went back to the 1940s when the latter was head of the notorious paramilitary organisation, the Irgun. This animosity increased in 1952 when Begin led a violent demonstration to the Knesset in opposition to Ben- Gurion’s decision to sign a reparations agree- ment with West Germany. 38. Cabinet meeting, 11.6.1967, ISA/8164/ 6- a, p. 6. 39. Cabinet meeting, p. 4. 40. Nadel, Chaim. Between the Two Wars: The Security and Military Activities to Achieve Readiness and Alert in the IDF (Tel Aviv, Ma‘arachot, 2006) [in Hebrew] p. 21. 41. In the aftermath of the Suez Crisis 1956– 7. 42. Teveth, Shabtai. The Cursed Blessing: The Story of Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson) pp. 10– 11. 43. Gazit, Shlomo. The Stick and the Carrot (Tel Aviv, Zmora- Bitan, 1985) [in Hebrew] pp. 46– 47. 44. Teveth, The Cursed Blessing, pp. 97– 98. 45. Gazit, The Stick and the Carrot, pp. 48– 49. 46. Teveth, The Cursed Blessing, p. 25. 47. Teveth, p. 54. 48. Nadel, Between the Two Wars, p. 14. 49. Gazit, Trapped, pp. 138– 139. 50. Sasson, Talking Peace, p. 91. 51. Bavly, Dan. Dreams and Missed Opportunities 1967– 1973 (Jerusalem, Carmel, 2002) [in Hebrew] pp. 247– 251. 52. Bavly, pp. 247– 251. 53. Sasson, Talking Peace, p. 274. 54. Dayan, Story of My Life, pp. 490– 491. 55. Bavly, Dreams and Missed Opportunities, pp. 35– 36. 56. Gazit, Trapped, pp. 140– 141. 57. Gazit, The Stick and the Carrot, p. 129. 58. Gazit, Trapped, p. 141. 59. Pedatzur, The Triumph of Embarrassment, p. 117. 60. Pedatzur, pp. 34– 35. 61. Pedatzur, p. 36. 62. Cabinet meeting, 11.6.1967, ISA/8164/ 6- a, p. 43. 63. Cabinet meeting, p. 43. 64. Cabinet meeting, p. 38. 65. Cabinet meeting, p. 50. 66.
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