Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 East Germany and the Six-Day War of June 1967
- 3 An anti-Israeli Left Emerges in West Germany: The Conjuncture of June 1967
- 4 Diplomatic Breakthrough to Military Alliance: East Germany, the Arab States, and the PLO: 1969–1973
- 5 Palestinian Terrorism in 1972: Lod Airport, the Munich Olympics, and Responses
- 6 Formalizing the East German Alliance with the PLO and the Arab States: 1973
- 7 Political Warfare at the United Nations During the Yom Kippur War of 1973
- 8 1974: Palestinian Terrorist Attacks on Kiryat Shmona and Ma'alot and Responses in East Germany, West Germany, Israel, the United States, and the United Nations
- 9 The United Nations “Zionism Is Racism” Resolution of November 10, 1975
- 10 The Entebbe Hijacking and the West German “Revolutionary Cells”
- 11 An Alliance Deepens: East Germany, the Arab states, and the PLO: 1978–1982
- 12 Terrorism from Lebanon to Israel's “Operation Peace for Galilee”: 1977–1982
- 13 The Israel-PLO War in Lebanon of 1982
- 14 Loyal Friends in Defeat: 1983–1989 and After
- 15 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2016
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 East Germany and the Six-Day War of June 1967
- 3 An anti-Israeli Left Emerges in West Germany: The Conjuncture of June 1967
- 4 Diplomatic Breakthrough to Military Alliance: East Germany, the Arab States, and the PLO: 1969–1973
- 5 Palestinian Terrorism in 1972: Lod Airport, the Munich Olympics, and Responses
- 6 Formalizing the East German Alliance with the PLO and the Arab States: 1973
- 7 Political Warfare at the United Nations During the Yom Kippur War of 1973
- 8 1974: Palestinian Terrorist Attacks on Kiryat Shmona and Ma'alot and Responses in East Germany, West Germany, Israel, the United States, and the United Nations
- 9 The United Nations “Zionism Is Racism” Resolution of November 10, 1975
- 10 The Entebbe Hijacking and the West German “Revolutionary Cells”
- 11 An Alliance Deepens: East Germany, the Arab states, and the PLO: 1978–1982
- 12 Terrorism from Lebanon to Israel's “Operation Peace for Galilee”: 1977–1982
- 13 The Israel-PLO War in Lebanon of 1982
- 14 Loyal Friends in Defeat: 1983–1989 and After
- 15 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I began work on this book in spring 2011 in Maryland. Yet it had its actual beginnings in the academic year of 1978–1979 when I lived in Frankfurt/Main, West Germany while doing research for my doctoral dissertation. I heard stories about two members of the Frankfurt leftist scene who had wound up in Entebbe pointing machine guns at unarmed Jews – before Israeli paratroopers arrived to free the hostages and kill the terrorists in a firefight. Why were West German radicals doing that? Why were the East German Communists, who had fought the Nazis and celebrated their anti-fascist traditions, giving aid to Israel's enemies and embracing Yasser Arafat on the front pages of their government controlled press? As I delved more deeply into the project, my interest in why these Germans acted as they did continued but gradually gave way to a historian's desire to establish that these, to my mind, unexpected events actually took place. So this became a book about both political passions as well as a multitude of details about weapons of war and terror and political warfare. It became a book about the anti-Israeli passion in Germany as well as about the resistance to it waged by the government of Israel, Jewish leaders in West Germany, by some political and public figures in West Germany and by the United States government. Historians know that facts do not speak for themselves. They must first be found, selected and interpreted. I hope the reader will agree that the following pages shed light on a subject as heated as any of modern history.
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- Undeclared Wars with IsraelEast Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016