Harkabi, Yehoshafat, and Ticktin, Max D. (Translator), and Altshuler, David (Editor)
Chappaqua, NY: Rossel Books, 1983. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 206 pages. This appears to be signed by the author at the upper right corner of fep. DJ has some wear, tears and soiling. Some edge soiling. Includes Preface, Introduction, Chronology, Map, Chart, Abbreviations, Notes, Selected Bibliography; and Index. Chapters include Prelude; The History of the Bar Kokhba Rebellion; the Bar Kokhba Rebellion; Premodern Reactions: Repression and Passivity; The Bar Kokhba Syndrome, The Important of Political Realism; Realism in Judaism in Judaism and in Zionism; Past and Future; The Destiny and the Enterprise, and Epilogue. Yehoshafat Harkabi (born 1921, Haifa; died 1994, Jerusalem) was chief of Israeli military intelligence from 1955 until 1959 and afterwards a professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Harkabi had a command of Arabic, a knowledge of Arab civilization and history, and an understanding of Islam. He developed from an uncompromising hardliner to supporter of a Palestinian state who recognized the PLO as a negotiations partner. In his well-known work Israel's Fateful Hour, hei described himself as a "Machiavellian dove" intent on searching "for a policy by which Israel can get the best possible settlement"--a policy that would include a Zionism "of quality and not of acreage". Harkabi resigned as chief of Military Intelligence as a consequence of the 1959 Night of the Ducks. Following his military career, Harkabi was Maurice Hexter professor and director of the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations and Middle East Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. More