Efraim Karsh is director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, emeritus professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London, and editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He is the author most recently of The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2015).
In the moments leading up to Israel’s independence, America’s diplomats did everything they could to stop the process, and the president, cold.
How a confusing urban battle between two sides was transformed into a one-sided massacre of helpless victims.