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The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile
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On Eagles' Wings
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Wiesel, Elie,
A Beggar in Jerusalem
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Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine
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The Massacre of the Innocents on 5 June
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Index
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Arabic surnames prefixed by al- or el- (âthe') are listed under the following element, eg Asad, Hafez al-. Arabic surnames beginning with Abu, and Jewish surnames beginning with Bar, Ben or Bin, (âson of') are listed under those elements, eg Ben-Gurion, David.
Abdullah, King of Jordan
Abdullah, Haj Arif
Abu Agheila (Sinai)
Abu Gharbiyeh, Bahjet
Abu Nahia, Zaid Salim
Abu Odeh, Adnan
Abu Rass family
Abu Shakrah, Shara
Acheson, Dean
Aden
Afaneh, Tawfik Mahmud
Aflaq, Michel
Afula (West Bank)
Agnon, S.Y.
Ahmad, Abdul Rahim Ali
Ajlouni, Maj. Firass
al-Ahram
(newspaper)
Al Akhbar
(newspaper)
Al-Arish (Sinai)
Alawi Muslims
Aleppo (Syria)
Alexandria
Ali, Maj. Gen. Amer
Ali, Brig. Atta
Ali, Maj. Ibrahim
al-Jazeera television
Allenby, Edmund, Lord
Allon, Yigal
Allon Plan
Ally, Yossi
Amer, Field Marshal Abd al-Hakim
before war
suggests withdrawal of UNEF
abortive meeting with commanders
conduct of war
after defeat
death (probable murder)
Amer, Salah
America,
USS
American University of Beirut
Amir, Yigal
Amit, Meir
Amman
Anderson, Robert
Aqaba, Gulf of
Aqsa mosque
Arab League
Arab Socialist Union
Arab summit, Khartoum
Arafat, Yasser
bis
Armbrister, Trevor
Arthur, G.C.
Asad, Maj. Gen. Hafez al-
Ashu, Shukri
Atassi, President Nureddin al-
Atlit prison camp
Austria
Ayoub, Mrs Fathi
Bagori, Lt. Mohammed Shaiki el-
Bakr, Kamal
Bar Kochba (warrior)
Bar Lev, Gen. Haim
Bar On, Col. Mordechai
Barbour, Walworth
Ba'th party
Battle, Lucius
Bawarshi, Elizabeth
BBC
Bedouin
Begin, Menachem
Beirut (Lebanon)
Beit Ha-Arava (West Bank)
Beit Nuba (West Bank)
Ben Ari, Col. Uri
Ben Eliezer, Binyamin
Ben-Gurion, David
Ben Moshe, Maj. Eitan
Ben Shaker, Prince Zaid
Ben Zur (driver)
Benghazi (Libya)
Beni Sweif airfield (Egypt)
Bethlehem (West Bank)
Bin-Nun, Captain Avihu
Bir Gifgafah (Sinai)
Bir Lahfan (Sinai)
Bir Tamada airfield (Egypt)
Bishop, Eric
B'nai B'rith organisation
Bodinger, Herzl
Boghdady, Abdul Latif
Bourghiba, President, of Tunisia
Bregman, Aaron
Brody, David
Bron, Gabby
Brown, George
Brown, Troy
Brummett, Gary
Bull, Gen. Odd
Bundy, McGeorge
Burdett, Winston
Burns, Findley
Cahaner, Shimon
Cairo
Cairo Radio
see also
Voice of the Arabs
Cameron, James
Camp David agreement
Canada
Canada Park (West Bank)
Caradon, Lord
CBS network
Chaimowitz, Jacov
Chester, Ron
Christian, George
Churchill, Winston (grandson)
Chuvakhin, Sergei
CIA
Clifford, Clark
Cohen, Eli
Cohen, Yeruham
Cooper, Chet
Dajani, Hamadi and Amina
Dakhakny, Maj. Ibrahim El
Damascus
Damascus Radio
Dayan, Gen. Moshe
on border clashes
made defence minister
early career and character
and preparations for war
war actions and policies
on Har Zion
collects ancient artefacts
and occupied territories
predicts terrorism
Dayan, Ruth
Dayan, Lt. Yael
de Gaulle, President Charles
Deeb, Abu
Deeb Ali, Hikmat
Deir al Balah (Gaza)
Deir Yassin massacre (1948)
Dharan (Saudi Arabia)
Diab, Dr Ali
Dighidi, Air Vice Marshal Abdel-Hamid El-
Drizen, Lt. Col. Asher
Eban, Abba
before war
career and character
diplomatic visits to US/UN
claims Egypt started war
apologises after bombing of
Liberty
and occupied territories
Egypt
in Suez war (1956)
pact with Syria
alert for war
blocks Straits of Tiran
military strength
and poison gas
pact with Jordan
on verge of war
Day One
reactions and propaganda
command and strategy failings
Day Two
Day Three to Five
Nasser's resignation and retraction
Day Six
Sinai returned to
aftermath of war
1973 war with Israel
Egyptian Gazette
Eilat (Straits of Tiran)
Eisenhower, President Dwight
Eitan, Col. Raphael
El Alamein
Elad, Maj. Ehud
Elazar, Gen. David
Elkins, Michael
Elon, Amos
Ennes, James
Epstein, Corp. Zerach
Eshel, Col.
Eshkol, Prime Minister Levi
before war
contacts with President Johnson
orders mobilisation
under pressure to start war
makes Dayan defence minister
haunted by prospect of war
warns King Hussein
lies about Egyptian aggression
and attack on Syria
encouraged by success
refuses UN call to end war
and occupied territories
Eshkol, Miriam
Eshkoli, Yaakov
Evans, Rowland
Evron, Ephraim
Faluja pocket
Farag, Bahjat
Farah, Abd al-Majeed al
Farra, Dr Muhammad al-
Fatah (Arafat's faction)
Fawzi, Gen. Muhammad
Fayed airfield (Egypt)
Fayek, Mohamed
fedayeen
(guerrillas)
Fedorenko, Nikolai
France
Gall, Sandy
Gamasy, Gen.
Garcia, Dan
Gat, Rubi
Gavish, Brig. Gen. Yeshayahu
urges starting war
threatened replacement by Dayan
commands Sinai campaign
Gaza
present day conflict
air raids
land invasion
occupation
Gazit, Shlomo
Gellhorn, Martha
Geneva Convention, Fourth
Ghanma, Maj. Asad
Giddi (Sinai)
Gil, Uri
Ginor, Isabella
Giora, Lt.
Glick, Yitzhak
Glubb, Sir John (Glubb Pasha)
Golan Heights
Goldberg, Arthur
Goma, Sha'rawi
Gonen, Col. Shmuel
Goren, Rabbi Shlomo
Great Britain
leaves Palestine (1948)
and Suez crisis (1956)
propaganda war
intelligence reports
plan to resolve crisis
sends arms to Israel
Tunis embassy attacked
protects Jews in Aden
and âthe big lie'
and Saudi Arabia
and occupied territories
Gromyko, Andrei
Guderian, Gen. Heinz
Gur, Col. Mordechai
Gussing, Nils-Goran
Guttman, Shmarya
Hadidi, Gen. Salahadeen
Hadow, Michael
Hafiz, Mohamed Abd-el
Haganah (Jewish militia)
Halman, James
Hamdan, Ghuzlan Ayoub
Harman, Avraham
Hashemite dynasty
Hawkins, Mary
Hebron (West Bank)
Heikal, Mohammed
Helms, Richard
Herzog, Maj. Gen. Chaim
Herzog, Ya'acov
Herzl, Yoel
Hod, Brig. Gen. Mordechai
Hofi, Gen.
Howedi, Amin
Human Rights Watch
Humphrey, Vice President Hubert
Hussein, King of Jordan
grandfather assassinated
and raid on Samua
nature of rule
modernises Amman
and CIA
and Nasser
enters war
family
and Palestinian nationalists
and âthe big lie'
seeks to limit defeat
accepts UN ceasefire
accepts defeat
restores relations with Britain and USA
after war
Husseini, Abdul Latif
Hutam, Salim
Hyman, Micha
Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia
Imwas (West Bank)
Independence Day parade (1967)
Indian forces
Inshas airfield (Egypt)
intifada
Iraqi, Ramadan Mohammed
Iraqi forces
Isma'il, Maj. Gen. Ahmad
Israel
violence to present day
1948 war with Arabs
after 1949 armistice
border clashes with Syria (1960s)
raid on Samua (West Bank)
build-up to war
military strength
discussions with USA
fear of a new Holocaust
leaders
last days before war
first air attacks
first land attacks
deception plan
defies UN ceasefire resolution
use of napalm
defeats Jordan
bombs USS
Liberty
defeats Egypt
war against Syria
treatment of prisoners
looting after victory
accepts ceasefire
âDavid becomes Goliath'
reasons for going to war
occupying force
violates international law
treatment of refugees
see also
Jerusalem
Israel Defence Forces (IDF)
Armoured Corps
Israel Museum
Israel Radio
Iyad, Abu Ali
Jadid, Gen. Salah
Jazi, Brig. Gen. Rakan al-
Jebel Libni (Sinai)
Jenin (West Bank)
Jericho (West Bank)
Jerusalem
character and history
1948 to 1967:
start of fighting
battle for Government House
battle for East Jerusalem
battle of Ammunition Hill
battle for Old City
aftermath
reactions to taking of Old City
Dome of the Rock
King David hotel
Mount of Olives
Mount Zion
St George's cathedral
Wailing Wall
bis
Jirardi Defile (Sinai)
Johnson, President Lyndon Baines
warns of future problems
tries to prevent war
invites Egyptian Vice-President to talks
and outbreak of war
talks to Kosygin
consults advisers and Harold Wilson
and USSR's threat to intervene
accepts unconditional ceasefire
and UN peace plan
and refugees
Jordan
pact with Egypt
prepares for war
Air Force
misinformation
accepts UN ceasefire
Radio Jordan/Radio Amman
see also
Jerusalem; West Bank
Ju'beh, Nazmi Al-
Jundi, Col. Abd al-Karim al-
Kahalani, Lt. Avigdor
Kamera, Aaron
Kaplan, Captain Shamai
Kapusta, Micha
Karameh refugee camp
Kenan, Amos
Kfar Banyas
Kfar Etzion/Etzion bloc (West Bank)
Kfar Sava (Israel)
Khalidi, Haifa
Khalidi, Hazim
Khalil, Brig. Abdel Moneim
Khammash, Gen. Amer
Khan Younis (Gaza)
Khartoum
Khatib, Governor Anwar al-
Khouri, Samir Elias
Kibbutz Gadot
Kibbutz Nachshon
Kirkbride, Sir Alec
Kislev, Col. Shmuel
Kollek, Mayor Teddy
Kony, Mohammed el-
Kook, Rabbi Abraham Isaac
Kook, Rabbi Zvi Yehudah
Kosygin, Alexei
Kovner, Abba
Krim, Mrs Arthur
Kulthum, Umm
Kuneitra (Golan)
Kuwait
Kuznetsov (Soviet minister)
Labib, Gen. Ismail
Latrun (West Bank)
Lebanon
Lev, Igal:
Jordan Patrol
Lewis, Lt. Cdr. Dave
Lewis, Jesse
Liberty,
USS
Libya
Lifta (West Bank)
Lior, Col. Israel
Livon, Mordechai
Lod/Lydda (Israel)
looting
Lourie, Arthur
Luxor airfield
McCloskey, Bob
McCullin, Don
McGonagle, Captain William
McNamara, Robert
McPherson, Harry
Mafrak airbase, Jordan
Mahrouss, Corp. Kamal
Makhus, Dr Ibrahim
Marie-Therese, Sister
massacres by Israelis
Meir, Golda
Mendler Col. Albert
Mezied, Fayek Abdul
Milstein, Uri
Mir, Ahmad al-
Mitla (Sinai)
Mohamed, Prince of Jordan