Avi Shlaim

Avi Shlaim, a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, is the author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.

In the LRB Archive:

• Capital Folly: The Jerusalem Syndrome · 21 March 2002

  • Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City by Bernard Wasserstein

• Ehud Barak: Ehud Barak · 25 January 2001

• A History of Disappointment · 22 June 2000

  • The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey by Fouad Ajami

• The Propitious Rise of Israel’s little Napoleon on why peace with Syria and the Palestinians is getting closer · 16 September 1999

• The Fighting Family · 9 May 1996

  • Israel, Likud and the Zionist Dream: Power, Politics and Ideology from Begin to Netanyahu by Colin Shindler
  • Summing Up: An Autobiography by Yitzhak Shamir
  • Broken Covenant: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis between the US and Israel by Moshe Arens
  • A Zionist Stand by Ze’ev Begin
  • Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism by Benjamin Netanyahu

• Overtaken by Events · 30 November 1995

  • Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land by Meron Benvenisti

• Israel’s Dirty War · 18 August 1994

  • Israel’s Border Wars, 1949-56: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation and the Countdown to the Suez War by Benny Morris

• It can be done · 9 June 1994

  • Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of ‘Transfer’ in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 by Nur Masalha
  • The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 by Ilan Pappé

• Arafat’s Camel · 21 October 1993

• Sleepless Afternoons · 25 February 1993

  • The Passionate Attachment: America’s Involvement with Israel by George Ball and Douglas Ball

• All the difference · 25 June 1992

  • The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations by Itamar Rabinovich

• Changing Places · 9 January 1992

• ‘Abu Nidal, Abu Shmidal’ · 9 May 1991

  • Israel’s Secret Wars: The Untold History of Israeli Intelligence by Ian Black and Benny Morris

• Israel and the Gulf · 24 January 1991

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