Full Description
Yair Auron's important, innovative and instructive book relates critically to the narratives created by Israeli society regarding the events of 1948: the establishment of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba. Auron proposes a humanistic approach of dialogue to foster the brotherhood of the victims and an identification with each other's suffering, replacing the current relations of force driving the two peoples to a disaster of terrifying international implications.
Contents
Preface to the English Edition
Preface: The "Presence" of the Holocaust in Israel in 1948
Introduction: Facing the Truth
Chapter 1: 1948: Historical Research from the Israeli Perspective
Chapter 2: The Militant Forces
Chapter 3: The Encounter between Holocaust Survivors and the Yishuv
Chapter 4: The Treatment of Arabs, from the Early Zionist Era to the 1948 War
Chapter 5: The Influence of the Holocaust on the Treatment of Arabs by Jewish Combatants in the 1948 War
Chapter 6: Massacres in the Independence War
Chapter 7: The Debate about the Return of the Palestinian Refugees
Chapter 8: The Battle Pages: From the Gates of Vilna to the Gates of Ashdod
Chapter 9: The War Stories of Yizhar Smilansky
Chapter 10: The Arabs, the Germans, and the Holocaust
Conclusion: Morality and War: A Comparative View
