Good Arabs : The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967
By: Cohen, Hillel (Author).
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton. Published: 04/01/2010. Audience Guide: General (US: Trade).
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
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 viewed to uncover a story that continues to unfold to this day. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0520257677/9780520257672
TITLE: Good Arabs
CONTRIBUTORS: Cohen, Hillel (Author)
IMPRINT: University of California Press
PUBLISHER: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 04/01/2010
SUBJECT: History, Asian & Middle Eastern
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 159mm x 235mm
PAGES: 272
AUDIENCE GUIDE: General (US: Trade)
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
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