Timeline of Key Events
Text of Balfour Declaration
Introduction
1. Laying the Foundations
2. Bringing in the Black and Tans
3. ‘We Must Shoot to Kill’
4. Sowing the Seeds of Ethnic Cleansing
5. Arming Israel (1953-1956)
6. Arming Israel (1957-1979)
7. Sidelining the PLO
8. The Loyal Lieutenant
9. Partners in Crime
Postscript: Israel’s Greatest Friend?
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
David Cronin is a journalist specialising in European politics. He is the author of Balfour's Shadow (Pluto, 2017), Corporate Europe (Pluto, 2013) and Europe's Alliance With Israel (Pluto, 2010). He has written for a variety of publications, including the Guardian and Wall Street Journal Europe.
'The most dramatic centenary account of the Balfour
Declaration'
*Robert Fisk, journalist and author*
'Sheds light in the dark corners of western imperialist policies
that wreak havoc in most of the world. This one about British
policies over the 100 years since Balfour is worthy of reading not
only by every British person interested in truth but all humans who
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*Mazin Qumsiyeh, Professor at Bethlehem University*
'Shows how Britain erected and for decades maintained the
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*Nur Masalha, editor, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine
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*Raymond Deane, Composer*
'Describes vividly how, by deception, Britain's imperial designs
and perceived need for international Jewish support in wartime gave
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*Tim Llewellyn, former BBC Middle East Correspondent*
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Balfour's Shadow is a passionate, cogently argued
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