An attempt to cut through the polemical fog that has beset key aspects of the Arab-Israeli issue by recalling the essential background of the problem in its real rather than imaginary political context. Only by understanding the real issues behind the conflict can there be hope of ever finding a means of resolving it.

This book is an attempt to cut through the polemical fog that has beset key aspects of the Arab-Israeli issue by recalling the essential background of the problem in its real rather than imaginary political context. Only by understanding the real issues behind the conflict can there be hope of ever finding a means of resolving it.