ABSTRACT

The Palestine conflict constitutes one of the most prolonged and complex disputes of the twentieth century. It has consistently dominated Arab-Jewish relations and has in turn been affected by social, political and ideological tensions and struggles within the Arab states as well as within Israel. This book describes the influence and the functions of the Palestine conflict in the history of a modernizing Arab state.

chapter 1|7 pages

Faysal I and the Palestine Question

chapter 3|20 pages

Iraq's Intervention in Palestine, 1936

chapter 6|6 pages

Excursus: Iraq and the Second World War

chapter 13|13 pages

1948; From Riots to War

chapter 14|5 pages

Epilogue: Iraq and the 1948–49 War