Good Arabs. The Israeli Security Agencies And The Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: University Of California Press
Publisher Place: Berkerley
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 280 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Based on his reading of top-secret files of the Israeli police and the prime ministers 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. Cohens 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.

ISBN: 9780520257672