The Origin of the Arab-Israeli Arms Race

A re-examination of the 1948 Palestine war. Defining four junctures in which this war was decided it checks the real, not formal, Orders of Battles on both sides at these junctures, and points out the immense impact the UN arms embargo had on the decline of the military capability of the Arabs and the Israelis, and at the same time depicts the relative advantage it created in Israel's favour. This study is based on research in American, British, Israeli, Arab and Czech military and diplomatic documents.

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Major Sources and Abbreviations - List of Tables - Preface - Introduction - The Security Council's Arms Embargo of May 1948 and Its Precursors - The Warring Parties in May 1948 - The United States, the War in Palestine and the Embargo, 1947-1949 - Britain's Middle Eastern Policies and Military Assistance in 1948-1949, and the Embargo - Assistance to the Warring Parties from the Soviet Block - Other Arms Sources to Palestine in the 1948 War - The Value and the Effect of the UN Supervision of the Embargo - Arms, Embargo and Military Decision in the 1948 Palestine War: Conclusion - Index