The collusion that never was: King Abdallah, the jewish agency and the partition of Palestine

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 569-585

  Karsh, Efraim ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34248088692     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002200949903400405     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Neil Caplan, Futile Diplomacy, Vol. II: Arab-Zionist Negotiations and the End of the Mandate (London 1986)
2. Mary Wilson, King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan (Cambridge 1987), 161-7, 214
3. Yoav Gelber, Jewish-Transjordanian Relations 1921-1948 (London 1997)
4. Dan Schueftan, Optsia Yardenit: Israel, Yarden, V e-hapalestinaim (Jordanian Option: Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians) (Tel-Aviv 1986)
5. For the revisionist approach see, for example: Simha Flapan, The Birth of Israel: Myth and Realities (New York 1987), 8, 42-4, 142-4, 167-8
6. Avi Shlaim, Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (Oxford 1988)
7. idem, The Politics of Partition (Oxford 1990) (this is an abridged and slightly revised edition of Collusion)
8. Han Pappé, The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 (London 1992), 118
9. Ezra Danin, 'Siha Im Abdallah, 17.11.47' ('Conversation with Abdallah, 17 November 1947'), Central Zionist Archives (hereinafter CZA) S25/4004
10. Sasson to Shertok, 20 November 1947
11. David Vital, 'Some of the Forks in the Road' in Efraim Karsh and Gregory Mahler (eds), Israel at the Crossroads (New York 1994), 9-10
12. CZA, Jewish Agency Executive meeting of 16 November 1947, p. 4 (12697)
13. CZA, Jewish Agency Executive meeting of 7 December 1947, protocol 13, p. 2 (12717), protocol 14, p. 1 (12724)
14. Ben-Gurion, Yoman Ha-milhama, 1 January 1948, vol. I, pp. 100-1 (emphasis in the original)
15. Israel's State Archives, 'Protocol of the Provisional Government Meeting of 16 June 1948', 12-13, 23-4 (emphasis in the original)
16. Sharett to Shitrit, 8 August 1948, in Yehoshua Freindlich (ed.), Teudot Mediniot Vediplomatiot, May-September 1948 (Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel, May-September 1948) (Jerusalem 1981), 498
17. Kirkbride to Bernard Burrows, 10 December 1948, FO 371/68603/E16265
18. Ben-Gurion, Yoman Ha-milhama, 29 December 1948, vol. III, 910
19. See Efraim and Inari Karsh, 'Myth in the Desert, or Not the Great Arab Revolt', Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 33, no. 2 (April 1997), 267-312
20. See, for example, B. Joseph, 'Note of Talk with Salim Ayoub, 20 May 1936' and 'Note of Talk with "S.A.", M. al-Unsi and "Fr. N.", 5 June 1936, CZA, S25\10093: Lourie to Shertok (Sharett), 25 May 1936, S25/6325; Shertok to Abdallah, 30 April 1936 and Abdallah to Shertok, 6 May 1936, S25/3243; Yehoshua Porath, Mi-mhumot li-mrida: Ha-tnu'a Ha-arvit-Ha-Palestinit 1929-1939 (From Riots to Rebellion: The Palestinian-Arab National Movement 1929-1939) (Tel-Aviv 1978), 97-8
21. See, for example, 'Text of the Proposal for the Solution of the Palestine Problem Sent to the British Government' (i.e., to the Woodhead Commission, May 1938), in King Abdallah of Jordan, My Memoirs Completed: 'al-Takmilah' (London 1951), 89-90
22. See, for example, Sasson's reports on his two meetings in August 1946 with Abdallah: CZA, S25/9036; idem, Ba-derekh el Ha-shalom: Igrot Ve-sihot (On The Road to Peace: Letters and Conversations) (Tel-Aviv 1978), 367-72
23. Haza al-Majali, Mudhakkirati (My Memoirs) (Beirut 1960), 63
24. Meir s verbal report to the Provisional State Council on 12 May 1948