POL 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Aviv Kochavi, John Bagot Glubb, Benny Morris
16 Oct 2018
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Mowing the grass: major-general aviv kochavi: for the first time in dozens of years. Israel has four borders threatened by terrorist breach : major-general israel tal: first strike offensive vs defensive warfare. In-gathering: the establishment of israel in 1948 put an enormous economic challenge to policy makers: absorbing the waves of immigration from. Israel went into an economic decline post 1973 along with hyperinflation. In the israeli system there is a spirit of improvisation, creativity, and military-cultivated characteristics associated with the israeli entrepreneurial culture. Total war: majority of weapons came from czechoslovakia (ussr) and france, u. s. did an arms boycott and did not give weapons to either israel or the arabs, britain supported the arabs (john glubb- british commander of the. Jordanians: altalena (denied arms to the right wing groups and solidified the power of the idf, new historians - revisionists history of 1948 war, left-of-center, actually israelis had a more offensive viewpoint against palestinians, massacres etc, (benny morris)
