Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956
By Benny Morris
Categories: History
Benny Morris's study of Israel's frontier conflicts between the 1949 armistice agreements and the 1956 Suez War. He examines the waves of Arab infiltration across the borders, from refugees and smugglers to fedayeen raids, and Israel's increasingly forceful reprisals such as the Qibya raid, showing how this cycle of raid and retaliation shaped Israeli defense policy and led to the Sinai campaign.