Authors: Walter Laqueur

The Israel-Arab Reader

Table of Contents

Title 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 InevitableâWhy? (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 CommuniquÃ© (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 CommuniquÃ© (February 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)

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 ...

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