Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967

Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967

Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967

Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967

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Overview

Based on his reading of top-secret files of the Israeli police and the prime minister's office, Hillel Cohen exposes the full extent of the crucial, and, until now, willfully hidden history of Palestinian collaboration with Israelis—and of the Arab resistance to it. Cohen's previous book, the highly acclaimed Army of Shadows,told how this hidden history played out from 1917 to 1948, and now, in Good Arabs he focuses on the system of collaborators established by Israel in each and every Arab community after the 1948 war. Covering a broad spectrum of attitudes and behaviors, Cohen brings together the stories of activists, mukhtars, collaborators, teachers, and sheikhs, telling how Israeli security agencies penetrated Arab communities, how they obtained collaboration, how national activists fought them, and how deeply this activity influenced daily life. When this book was first published in Hebrew, it became a bestseller and has evoked bitter memories and intense discussions among Palestinians in Israel and prompted the reclassification of many of the hundreds of documents Cohen viewed to uncover a story that continues to unfold to this day.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520257672
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01/06/2010
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Hillel Cohen is Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaborators with Zionism 1917-1948 (UC Press), The Present Absentees: Palestinian Refugees in Israel since 1948, and The Marketplace is Empty: The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem 1967-2007.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Beginning a Beautiful Friendship: The Rise of the Collaborator Class
2. Communists vs. the Military Government,
Collaborators vs. the Communists
3. Boundary Breakers: Infiltrators, Smugglers, Spies
4. The Land
5. The Battle of the Narrative: Symbols, Pronouncements, Teachers
6. Minorities within a Minority: Dilemmas of Identity
7. Circles of Control, Circles of Resistance

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Paints a remarkably balanced and comprehensive picture. It is a fascinating tale, but his account . . . does not make for pleasant reading."—Jerusalem Post

"The book's power derives from its resonance for the present day, and the way that it illuminates the attitude that Israel has taken - and still takes - toward the Palestinians."—

"A fascinating study . . . with revelations about the past that help explain later developments between the State and Israeli Arabs."—Jewish Book World

"Excellent book. . . . Good Arabs achieves an unusual poignancy."—The Jerusalem Report

"Highly recommended."—Choice

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