Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989
Cambridge University Press, 5/12/2016
EAN 9781107461628, ISBN10: 1107461626
Paperback, 510 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Undeclared Wars with Israel 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. This period encompasses the Six-Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur War (1973), Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and an ongoing campaign of terrorism waged by the Palestine Liberation Organization against Israeli civilians. This book provides new insights into the West German radicals who collaborated in 'actions' with Palestinian terrorist groups, and confirms that East Germany, along with others in the Soviet Bloc, had a much greater impact on the conflict in the Middle East than has been generally known. A historian who has written extensively on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Jeffrey Herf now offers a new chapter in this long, sad history.
1. Introduction
2. East Germany and the Six-Day War of June 1967
3. An anti-Israel left emerges in West Germany
the conjuncture of June 1967
4. Diplomatic breakthrough to military alliance
East Germany, the Arab states, and the PLO 1969–73
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 Maalot and responses in East Germany, West Germany, Israel, the United States, and the United Nations
9. The UN 'Zionism is racism' revolution of November 10, 1975
10. The Entebbe hijacking and 'selection' and the West German 'revolutionary cells'
11. An alliance deepens
East Germany, the Arab states, and the PLO
1978–82
12. Terrorism from Lebanon to Israel's 'operation peace for Galilee'
1977–82
13. Loyal friends in defeat
1983–9 and after
14. Conclusion.