ABSTRACT
Wars between Arabs and Israelis have taken place from the day the state of Israel was established on the land of Palestine in May 1948, dominating the headlines and featuring prominently in books about Israel. Separate and short, the Israeli-Arab wars can be seen, in a historical perspective, as a single war with a single continuity, where land — first the land of Palestine and then lands occupied by Israel in subsequent wars — is identified as the main — though not exclusive — trigger to the repeating conflagrations. The balance sheet, after more than fifty years of Israeli-Arab conflict, indicates that on the battlefield there has been no clear victor — neither Arab nor Israeli.
