- 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- Unpublished Sources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
Ascendance
Ascendance
- Chapter:
- (p.59) 3 Ascendance
- Source:
- Moshe Sharett
- Author(s):
Gabriel Sheffer
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Shertok's basic philosophical assumption was that politics constituted a continuous process of incremental change rather than a series of single idiosyncratic leaps forward or irreversible retreats. Therefore, while continuing Arlosoroff's effort to discuss with both British and Arabs long-term interests and relations, he would emphasize the importance of ceaseless negotiations concerning gradual modifications in British policy as well as in Arab positions towards the Yishuv. Thus, he would continue to conduct a ‘trench war’ with the British on immigration, land purchase, and settlement, and launch a carefully measured propaganda campaign at the Arabs, aimed at imparting the notion that the Yishuv was ready to reach agreement with them.
Keywords: immigration, Britain, Yishuv, Arlosoroff, Shertok, land purchase, Arabs, settlement
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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
