Baksheesh Diplomacy: Secret Negotiations Between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of World War IILexington Books, 2001 - 190 من الصفحات Could the Arab-Israeli conflict have been avoided? Was it possible to achieve peace between Jews and Arabs in Palestine in the 1930s? Rafael Medoff's intriguing study reveals, for the first time, the story of the Fifth Avenune multimillionaires who believed they could bring peace to the Middle East through secret diplomacy and a generous dose of Baksheesh [the Arabic word for bribery]. In documents unearthed from archives on three continents, Medoff has discovered an extraordinary and previously unknown chapter in the history of Middle East diplomacy. Here he brings the story to life. A work of history that reads like a thriller, this book takes the reader from the elite Jewish social dubs of interwar Manhattan to the bustling bazaars of Baghdad, as it sheds fresh light on the Arab-Jewish conflict, the relationship between American Jewry and the Holy Land, and the divisions within the Jewish community over the Palestinian Arab issue. |
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A Park Avenue View of Palestine | 1 |
Problems in Palestine Solutions in New York | 27 |
Enter Edward Norman ཀླི ཆེ དྷྭ ཨཱུ ཡུ | 69 |
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Alami American Jewish American Jews American Zionism Arab-Jewish Archives August Baghdad Balfour Declaration Bell Bell's Ben-Gurion Brandeis British cable Chaim Weizmann Cohen colleagues Colonial Commission Committee conference cooperation Cyrus Adler David Ben-Gurion December discussed Downie economic Edward Norman Felix Warburg File Folder German Jewish Goldman hereafter Herzl Press Hexter Hexter to Warburg Holy Land Hope Simpson Ibid idea IMFA interest Iraq Iraq plan Iraq scheme Iraqi January Jerusalem Jewish Agency Jewish immigration July June Karpf Kutnick Latifiyah letter London Magnes Magnes's March Max Warburg meeting Melchett Memorandum minister Musa Alami negotiations November October officials Palestine's Palestinian Arabs partition patricians political population population transfer proposal refugees Report resettlement Revisionist Zionist Rutenberg Schechtman September 1937 settlement Shertok Shuckburgh Suweidy Tannous transfer Transjordan University Press Warburg to Hexter Weizmann to Warburg Wise York Zionist leaders Zionist leadership Zionist movement Zionists and non-Zionists