Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-469) and index.
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Abbreviations. Introduction -- East Germany and the Six-Day War of June 1967 -- An anti-Israeli left emerges in West Germany: the conjuncture of June 1967 -- Diplomatic breakthrough to military alliance: East Germany, the Arab States, and the PLO: 1969-73 -- Palestinian terrorism in 1972: Lod Airport, the Munich Olympics, and responses -- Formalizing the East German alliance with the PLO and the Arab States: 1973 -- Political warfare at the United Nations during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 -- 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 -- The United Nations "Zionism is racism" resolution of November 10, 1975 -- The Entebbe hijacking and the West German "revolutionary cells" -- An alliance deepens: East Germany, the Arab states, and the PLO: 1978-1982 -- Terrorism from Lebanon to Israel's "Operation Peace for Galilee:" 1977-1982 -- The Israel-PLO war in Lebanon of 1982 -- Loyal friends in defeat: 1983-1989 and after -- Conclusion. Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
Examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations, ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. A historian who has written extensively on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, the author now offers a new chapter in this long, sad history.
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