The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World

Few features of international relations have so engrossed the great powers and have so heavily influenced the agenda of the United Nations as the relationship between Israel and the Arab States. Now Avi Schlaim sets out the histroy of that relationship from the partition of Palestine and the creation of the State of Isreal through decades of confrontation and war, up until the Oslo accords and the first faint hopes of an eventual accommodation. For this, the definitive account of Israel's relationship with the Arab world from 1948 to 1998, Avi Schlaim has been able to use a massive amount of previously unexplored archive material. The result is an amalgamation of diplomatic, military and cultural history.