Reddit reviews Army of Shadows

A book I recommend is Army of Shadows by Hillel Cohen. He researched the Haganah archive in the 1930s and 1940s. It will shock you how the current situation in the Palestinian national movement resembles that of that period, especially the 1940s.

Eventually the offered deal will be something between Haifa/Nazareth (total surrender) or Jaffa: Live like dogs or GTFO. In between, the major part of the Palestinian hinterland will be just swept away without even having done anything or taken any side.


https://www.amazon.com/Army-Shadows-Hillel-Cohen/dp/0520259890

The book you probably want to read for this is Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism. I guess if you try and keep it strictly to 1948 this would be correct but that'd really be too narrow and misleading. For example there was a famous mayor of Tulkarm and his sons that did land deals and such with the Zionists throughout the years, and they were hardly the only guys. Even well in the midst of hostilities between the two communities. Just not entirely sure if that continued into '48 and the War of Independence.

Edit: As for more modern times, there's this article from the late 90s but it doesn't provide hard numbers.

Have any of you read this and can recommend it? I thought it sounded really interesting.

Hello! I'll suggest the following:

1. Please watch the 8-part Israel/Palestine for Critical Thinkers. It is a good starting point, detailing the genesis of the conflict (it stops short before WWII, though).
   
   
2. Read the following books:
   
   

• Tom Segev's One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
  
• Jonathan Schneer's The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  
• Scott Anderson's Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
  
• James Barr's A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948, and
  
• Hillel Cohen's Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 and Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948.
  
  I hope this will help you understand the conflict. Have a enlightening read~!