Yehoshafat Harkabi
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Yehoshafat Harkabi (1921-1994) was chief of Israeli military intelligence from 1955 until 1959. He is known primarily for his gradual development from uncompromising hardliner to advocate of a Palestinian state. Following his military career Harkabi served as a visiting professor at Princeton University and as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institute. He was Maurice Hexter professor and director of the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations and Middle East Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
According to intelligence insider Yoel Ben-Porat, Harkabi was the only commander of military intelligence to have had a good command of Arabic, in addition to genuinely professional knowledge of Arab civilization and history, and of Islam.
In what is perhaps his most well-known work, Israel's Fateful Hour, Harkabi described himself as a "Machiavellian dove" intent on searching "for a policy by which Israel can get the best possible settlement of the conflict in the Middle East" (1988, p. xxv) - a policy that would include a Zionism "of quality and not of acreage" (p. 225).
References
Shahak, I. (1991). The Israeli Myth of Omniscience: Nuclear Deterrence and Intelligence, Middle East Policy, Spring, Number 36.
Bibliography
- Harkabi, Y. (1974). Arab Attitudes to Israel. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0853031576
- Harkabi, Y. (1975). Palestinians and Israel. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0878551727
- Harkabi, Y. (1977). Arab Strategies and Israel's Response. Free Press. ISBN 0029137608
- Harkabi, Y. (1978). Three Concepts of Arab Strategy. Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. ISBN B0006WY3PU
- Harkabi, Y. (1979). Palestinian Covenant and Its Meaning. Frank Cass Publishers. ISBN 0853032068
- Harkabi, Y. (1981). The Palestinian National Covenant (1968): An Israeli Commentary. ISBN B0007J3GFA
- Harkabi, Y. (1982). The Bar Kokhba Syndrome: Risk and Realism in International Relations. New York, NY, Rossel Books. ISBN 0940646013
- Harkabi, Y. (1985). Al Fatah's Doctrine. In The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict. T. W. Laqueur and B. Rubin (Eds.). New York, NY, Penguin Books. ISBN 0871968738
- Harkabi, Y. (1988). Israel's Fateful Decisions. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 1850430942
- Harkabi, Y. (1989). Israel's Fateful Hour. HarperCollins. ISBN 0060916133
- Harkabi, Y. (1992). The Arab-Israeli Conflict on the Threshold of Negotiations. Center of International Studies, Princeton University. ISBN 006218240
External links
- [On Making Peace Despite the Risks - Ze'ev Schiff]
- [link] Heads of A'man, Mossad, & Shin Bet
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