TY - BOOK AU - Bregman, Ahron AU - Jihan El-Tahri TI - The fifty years' war : Israel and the Arabs SN - 9780140268270 U1 - 956.04 PY - 1998/// CY - London PB - Penguin KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Israel KW - Diplomatic relations KW - Egypt KW - Jewish-Arab relations KW - Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government KW - Middle East N2 - Drawing on Hundreds of In-depth Interviews with Politicians, soldiers, and journalists from sixteen countries, Israel and the Arabs is an eyewitness account of the history of Israel's relations with its Arab neighbors. Updated with a new afterword for this paperback edition, Israel and the Arabs also includes a never-before-published transcript of a conversation between Jordan's late King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir taped ten days before the 1973 war and an interview with Shams el-din Badran, Egypt's Minister of War in 1967, which provides insights into the role of the former Soviet Union in provoking the Six-Day War. This unique Israeli-Arab collaborative work tackles one of the worlds most complex and controversial situations from both sides of the firing line ER -