| Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967 Contributor(s): Cohen, Hillel (Author), Watzman, Haim (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0520257677 ISBN-13: 9780520257672 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2010 Annotation: "A fascinating story. ... With the publication of this book, we can abandon several accepted cliches."--"Ha'aretz" "While many Israelis--Jews and Palestinians alike--already had a sense that these shadowplays were part of the state's history, "Aravim Tovim (Good Arabs)" supplies the evidence. Case after case is summoned to illustrate how collaboration permeated all aspects of Palestinian society."--"The Nation" "The impressive achievement of this timely book is its equal and honest treatment of the explosive issues involved in spite of an often agonizing conflict of interests--and its articulation of the author's findings with empathy, boldness and fairness."--"Jerusalem Post" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine |
| Dewey: 323.119 |
| LCCN: 2009010473 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 1960's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |