• Edited by: Dr. Eugene Rogan
• Published by Gale

With over 200,000 pages of primary source documents that chronicle the politics, wars, administration and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict, this product is an essential research tool for Middle East scholars. The fully searchable database has been sourced from the British Foreign Office, Prime Minister's Office and the War Office amongst others. These critically important government documents from the British government files, now housed at the British National Archives, are now available online in this fully searchable, image-based product.

Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 benefits from the input of a distinguished editorial team, headed by Dr. Eugene Rogan, director, the Middle East Centre at St. Anthony's College, Oxford. The board has selected documents that provide vital coverage of the milestone events in this regions history, including:

• The Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the politics behind it
• Origins of British rule in Palestine
• The Palestine campaign of 1914-1918
• Britain's military occupation of Jerusalem from 1917
• The League of Nations mandate for Palestine in 1922
• Palestine sessional papers of 1924-1948
• The background to the establishment of the State of Israel
• Britain's early relations with Israel
• The assassinations of 1951
• The Suez crisis
• The effect of the Cold War in the Middle East
• The Six-Day War of 1967
• The PLO resistance movement

Review:

"The Middle East Online series provides facsimile copies of primary source documents (letters, minutes, reports, maps) from the Natonal Archives, London. Series 1 covers the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestine from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1971. Many of the comments are pertinent to the issues in the modern Middle East; others are quite blunt or descriptive and convey the hopes and frustrations felt by diplomats at the time. Searches can be limited to documents from specific government departments, including the War Office and the Foreign Office. Advanced search also allows searches to be limited to specific fields (eg Author, Language, Subject) and by date range."
--Lawbook Co., 2007

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