UN peacekeeping and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948-1960 /
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Nathan A. Pelcovits.
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London :
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Routledge,
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2019.
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; Introduction; 1 The Fateful Year-1948-1949; The United Nations: Successor Mandatory?; Peace Broker or Political Actor?; Strained U.S.-Israel Relations; 2 From Peacemaking to Peacekeeping; The Dual Mission; Bernadotte's Legacy; Collapse of the Palestine Conciliation Commission; The Armistice Regime; 3 The Armistice Regime Erodes, 1952-1955; Border Tensions and UNTSO; The Demilitarized Zone and Israel's Walkout from ISMAC; Israel and the UN: Political Friction and Personal Animosity
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4 The Egyptian Front, 1955-1956The Fedayeen; El Auja and the Sinai Frontier; Ben Gurion Reassesses the Armistice; Operation Alpha; Hammarskjöld Intervenes; Attack in the Sinai; 5 After Suez: Conditions of Withdrawal; Washington Enlists the United Nations; Israel Sets Conditions for Withdrawal; The Scene Shifts to Washington; Clash over Post-Suez Order; 6 Enforcing the Restored Armistice; Israel Seeks to Nullify the Armistice; UNEF Polices the Armistice Lines; An Unstable Tranquillity; 7 Guardians of the Arab-Israeli Stalemate; Supervising the Quasi Dëtente
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The Jordan Front: Friction over Jerusalem's Neutral ZoneThe Unquiet Syrian Front; Living with the Impasse; Notes; About the Book and Author; Index
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Drawing on previously untapped documents, interviews with key actors, and his own experiences in the Department of State, Nathan Pelcovits takes a fresh look at the impact of UN intervention, as peacekeeper and peacemaker, on the Arab-Israeli conflict during the formative years between 1948 and 1960. He examines the reasons behind the UN assumption of a quasi-custodial role in the dispute and how it is that Israel and the Arab states have come to hold diametrically opposed views of the value of engaging the UN as intermediary, with the UN-Israel relationship cooling into one of mutual suspicion and mistrust. Most relevant to the current peace process, Pelcovits explains why UN action shifted early in the game from an ambitious effort at peaceful settlement to "keeping" the peace of a long armistice. Pelcovits argues that the wounds of the formative years have affected the dynamic of the peace process to this day. The UN has been accorded a marginal role in the negotiations--ceremonial and passive--and UN peacekeepers are not likely to be enlisted as guarantors of the settlement