The Long Armistice : Un Peacekeeping and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1960.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 The Fateful Year-1948-1949 -- The United Nations: Successor Mandatory? -- Peace Broker or Political Actor? -- Strained U.S.-Israel Relations -- 2 From Peacemaking to Peacekeeping -- The Dual Mission -- Bernadotte's Legacy -- Collapse of the Palestine Conciliation Commission -- The Armistice Regime -- 3 The Armistice Regime Erodes, 1952-1955 -- Border Tensions and UNTSO -- The Demilitarized Zone and Israel's Walkout from ISMAC -- Israel and the UN: Political Friction and Personal Animosity -- 4 The Egyptian Front, 1955-1956 -- The Fedayeen -- El Auja and the Sinai Frontier -- Ben Gurion Reassesses the Armistice -- Operation Alpha -- Hammarskjöld Intervenes -- Attack in the Sinai -- 5 After Suez: Conditions of Withdrawal -- Washington Enlists the United Nations -- Israel Sets Conditions for Withdrawal -- The Scene Shifts to Washington -- Clash over Post-Suez Order -- 6 Enforcing the Restored Armistice -- Israel Seeks to Nullify the Armistice -- UNEF Polices the Armistice Lines -- An Unstable Tranquillity -- 7 Guardians of the Arab-Israeli Stalemate -- Supervising the Quasi Dëtente -- The Jordan Front: Friction over Jerusalem's Neutral Zone -- The Unquiet Syrian Front -- Living with the Impasse -- Notes -- About the Book and Author -- Index.

Nathan Pelcovits provides a view on the impact of UN intervention, as peacekeeper and peacemaker, on the Arab-Israeli conflict during the formative years between 1948 and 1960. He examines the reasons behind the UN assumption of a quasi-custodial role in the dispute.

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