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Cursed Victory
Cursed Victory
Cursed Victory
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In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula in 1967's brief but pivotal Six Day War. Cursed Victory is the first complete history of the war's troubled aftermath—a military occupation of the Palestinian territories that is now well into its fifth decade.Drawing on unprecedented access to high-level sources, top-secret memos and never-before-published letters, the book provides a gripping chronicle of how what Israel promised would be an 'enlightened occupation' quickly turned sour, and the anguished diplomatic attempts to bring it to an end. Bregman sheds fresh light on critical moments in the peace process, taking readers behind the scenes as decisions were made and as crucial opportunities to resolve the conflict were missed. Moving from Jerusalem to New York, Oslo to Beirut, and from the late 1960s to the present day, Cursed Victory provides vivid portraits of the key players, including Moshe Dayan, King Hussein of Jordan, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat. As Bregman concludes, the occupation has become a dark stain on Israel's history. Cursed Victory is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the origins of the ongoing conflict in the region.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPegasus Books
Release dateMay 15, 2015
ISBN9781605987811
Cursed Victory
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Ahron Bregman

Born in Israel in 1958, Ahron Bregman was a soldier in the 1982 Lebanon War and reached the rank of captain. He then studied in Jerusalem and London, completing a doctorate in War Studies at King's College London. He is the author of Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947 and A History of Israel. An academic and journalist, Bregman teaches at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    So difficult to read. I can’t rationalize how a nation of primarily Jewish ethnicity could act as it has following the attempt by Nazis and their collaborators to eliminate Jews in the 1930s and 40s. The author does a great job in explaining how this current tragedy began and how it has evolved.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    If you are interested in the Israel-Palestine conflict then this is one of the best books to give you an insight into all of its machinations. The author is now an academic but grew up in Israel, served in the army there and had access to most of the key people and key documents associated with the issues surrounding the occupied territories. Astonishingly, this includes tapes made in secret by the Israeli security services of conversations between various US presidents and their advisors during the negotiations with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
    The title 'Cursed Victory' sums up the book's conclusions - that Israel should never have hung on to the territory it occupied during the 1967 war but should have negotiated a return immediately afterwards. The various negotiations over the years are related in exhaustive detail, which can get tedious, but is often fascinating, if also depressing. Even more depressing are the accounts of the brutality and inhuman treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories by the Israeli defence forces. Again the title says it all - showing how reviled Israel has become for its outrageous actions (and the book only goes up to 2007 so it doesn't include the most recent wars in Gaza).
    Tragically, we seem further away than ever to a solution to this problem due to the extreme attitudes of the leaders on both side of the conflict who, for their own political purposes, prefer agression and war to any serious attempt to make the compromises that would allow for a negotiated settlement.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    I think this book provides an excellent overview of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: one that sets the historical context and what that history means today in an accessible, balanced way. Sadly, we seem no closer to a solution.....
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    It’s very interesting to read a book by an Israeli about all the bad decisions Israel made with the occupied territories. Perhaps the most telling is the use of the Gaza Strip to provide a low-paid labor force for Israel, allowing Israelis to thrive in high-tech jobs but leaving many Palestinians impoverished and humiliated, even when they managed to get an education. Israeli farmers prevented produce from the territories from entering Israel, further worsening the economic situation. And that’s only the economic violence—apparently the defense minister himself said at one point that if his homeland had to be occupied, he wouldn’t want it done by the Israelis. That said, the book spends relatively little time on Palestinian violence. Especially now that Israel seems to have chosen poorly from the two out of three it can pick from the set (large, Jewish, democratic), I was left with a sense that most of the imaginable opportunities have been missed.

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