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In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab Liberation Army. With this book, the young men and women who made up these armies come to life through their letters home, writing about everything from daily life to nationalism, colonialism, race, and the character of their enemies. Shay Hazkani offers a new history of the 1948 War through these letters, focusing on the people caught up in the conflict and its transnational reverberations.

Dear Palestine also examines how the architects of the conflict worked to influence and indoctrinate key ideologies in these ordinary soldiers, by examining battle orders, pamphlets, army magazines, and radio broadcasts. Through two narratives—the official and unofficial, the propaganda and the personal letters—Dear Palestine reveals the fissures between sanctioned nationalism and individual identity. This book reminds us that everyday people's fear, bravery, arrogance, cruelty, lies, and exaggerations are as important in history as the preoccupations of the elites.

ISBN-13: 9781503627659

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Publication Date: 04-13-2021

Pages: 352

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and

Shay Hazkani is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Muscular Jews and Arabs 1

1 Pan-Arab and Pan-Judaic Mobilization 35

2 Toe the Line 76

3 Welcome to Palestine-What Brings You Here? 121

4 The Violence of Victory and the Violence of Defeat 140

5 Different Kinds of Return 176

Conclusion: The View from the Ground 207

Notes 213

Index 311