Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948–1967

Hillel Cohen

Published by University of California Press 2010

Good Arabs

The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948–1967

Hillel Cohen

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520944886

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Based on his reading of top-secret files of the Israeli police and the prime minister's 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. Cohen's 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.

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Cohen Hillel :

Hillel Cohen is Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaborators with Zionism 1917-1948 (UC Press), The Present Absentees: Palestinian Refugees in Israel since 1948, and The Marketplace is Empty: The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem 1967-2007.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Beginning a Beautiful Friendship: The Rise of the Collaborator Class Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Communists vs. the Military Government, Collaborators vs. Communists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. Boundary Breakers: Infiltrators, Smugglers, Spies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4. The Land Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5. The Battle of the Narrative: Symbols, Pronouncements, Teachers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
6. Minorities within a Minority: Dilemmas of Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
7. Circles of Control, Circles of Resistance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
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Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 296

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Published: January 6, 2010
ISBN: 9780520944886