- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Epigraph
- Introduction: Sharett’s Forgotten Struggles
- 1 Roots
- 2 The Road to National Leadership
- 3 Ascendance
- 4 The Second World War
- 5 Holocaust
- 6 A State in the Making
- 7 Preparing for Statehood
- 8 ‘If Not Now, When?’
- 9 Light at the End of the Tunnel
- 10 ‘We Must Go Forward!’
- 11 The First Israeli Foreign Minister
- 12 Non-Alignment
- 13 A Lament for Generations to Come?
- 14 ‘Truce, Yes; Peace, No!’
- 15 Membership in the ‘Family of Nations’
- 16 American Pressures
- 17 ‘If I Forget Thee, Oh Jerusalem!’
- 18 A Swing towards the West
- 19 A Year of Troubles
- 20 ‘A People that Does not Dwell Alone’
- 21 A Coalition of Two
- 22 The ‘Obvious’ Heir
- 23 A Beleaguered Prime Minister
- 24 The Mishap
- 25 ‘A State of Law and Order or of Robbery?’
- 26 Selection and Elections
- 27 The Struggle over the Sharett Line
- 28 Resignation
- 29 ‘My Country has Deserted Me!’
- 30 New Missions
- 31 ‘Fear and [Political] Greed’
- 32 Last Battles
- 33 The Sharett Legacy
- 34 The Last Triumph and Demise
- Unpublished Sources
- Published Sources
- Index
‘We Must Go Forward!’
‘We Must Go Forward!’
- Chapter:
- (p.301) 10 ‘We Must Go Forward!’
- Source:
- Moshe Sharett
- Author(s):
Gabriel Sheffer
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The military struggle, in which the Yishuv was already deeply involved, evolved on three fronts: with the British military forces that had begun their withdrawal from the territory; with local Palestinian Arab paramilitary groups; and with Arab ‘irregulars’, who were infiltrating Palestine in growing numbers. By March 1947, mainly as a result of the growing numbers and escalating operations of the irregulars, the security situation of the Yishuv had become perilously dangerous. As with the struggle for physical survival, the Yishuv's political and diplomatic battles in the UN for the establishment of the long-awaited Jewish state were being conducted on three fronts: in the Security Council, in which the unending discussions stemmed from the unfounded notion that agreement was still possible between Arabs and Jews; in the Trusteeship Council, which was then locked in debate over Jerusalem; and in the Palestine Commission, which was weighing the establishment of provisional governments by the two communities.
Keywords: Security Council, paramilitary groups, Yishuv, Jewish state, Trusteeship Council, Palestine Commission
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Epigraph
- Introduction: Sharett’s Forgotten Struggles
- 1 Roots
- 2 The Road to National Leadership
- 3 Ascendance
- 4 The Second World War
- 5 Holocaust
- 6 A State in the Making
- 7 Preparing for Statehood
- 8 ‘If Not Now, When?’
- 9 Light at the End of the Tunnel
- 10 ‘We Must Go Forward!’
- 11 The First Israeli Foreign Minister
- 12 Non-Alignment
- 13 A Lament for Generations to Come?
- 14 ‘Truce, Yes; Peace, No!’
- 15 Membership in the ‘Family of Nations’
- 16 American Pressures
- 17 ‘If I Forget Thee, Oh Jerusalem!’
- 18 A Swing towards the West
- 19 A Year of Troubles
- 20 ‘A People that Does not Dwell Alone’
- 21 A Coalition of Two
- 22 The ‘Obvious’ Heir
- 23 A Beleaguered Prime Minister
- 24 The Mishap
- 25 ‘A State of Law and Order or of Robbery?’
- 26 Selection and Elections
- 27 The Struggle over the Sharett Line
- 28 Resignation
- 29 ‘My Country has Deserted Me!’
- 30 New Missions
- 31 ‘Fear and [Political] Greed’
- 32 Last Battles
- 33 The Sharett Legacy
- 34 The Last Triumph and Demise
- Unpublished Sources
- Published Sources
- Index
