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Promise and Fulfilment - Palestine 1917-1949, EPUB eBook

Promise and Fulfilment - Palestine 1917-1949 EPUB

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This book consists of three parts, "Background", "Close-up" and "Perspective".

The first part is a survey of the developments which led to the foundation of the State of Israel.

It lays no claim to historical completeness and is written from a specific angle which stresses the part played by irrational forces and emotive bias in history.

I am not sure whether this emphasis has not occasionally resulted in over-emphasis-as is almost inevitable when one tries to redress a balance by spot-lighting aspects which are currently neglected.

But it was certainly not my intention, by underlining the psychological factor, to deny or minimize the importance of the politico-economic forces.

My aim was rather to present, if I may borrow a current medical term, a "psycho-somatic" view of one of the most curious episodes in modern history. The second part, “Close-up”, is meant to give the reader a close and coloured, but not I hope technicoloured, view of the Jewish war and of everyday life in the new State.

It opens and ends with extracts from the diary of my last sojourn as a war correspondent in Israel.

The emphasis here is on life in the towns, with only occasional glimpses of the collective settlements, since I have given a detailed description of these in an earlier book. The third part, “Perspective”, is an attempt to present to the reader a comprehensive survey of the social and political structure, the cultural trends and future prospects of the Jewish State.

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