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- Sasson Sofer, Begin—An Anatomy of Leadership (Oxford, 1988).
- Yechiam Weitz, “Not for the Honor of Begin” [Hebrew] Haaretz, January 16, 2008.
- Avi Shilon, Begin: 1913–1992 [Hebrew], (Tel Aviv, 2008) and Menachem Begin: A Life(New Haven, 2012).
- In fact, Tamir, who played a central role in Begin's political career for many years, is not mentioned in the book at all. He served as minister of justice in the first Begin government from 1977–80.
- Robert Soblen was an American Jew who was given a life sentence for spying for the Soviet Union. He fled from the US to Israel in 1962. The interior minister deported him without allowing his defense attorney to appeal the ruling. Soblen went to London and fought against his extradition to the US. When his appeal was rejected, he committed suicide on November 7, 1962.
- Ben-Gurion Diaries, July 1, 1962.
- See my article, “The Road to Wassenaar: How the Decision on Direct Negotiations Between Israel and Germany Was Approved,” Yad Vashem Studies, XXVIII (2000), 311–50.
- The Independent Liberal Party was a small centrist party linked to Labor and was a member of each successive coalition. The ideological and political gap between the Liberals and Herut was substantial.
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- Michael J. Cohen, “Was the Balfour Declaration at Risk in 1923? Zionism and British Imperialism,” The Journal of Israeli History, XXVIIII:1 (March 2010).
- Michael J. Cohen, Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917–48(London, 2014), pp. 386–87; Lukasz Hirszowicz, The Third Reich and the Arab East (London, 1966).
- For instance, Klaus Gensicke, The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years (London, 2011); Jeffrey Herf, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (New Haven, 2009); and Richard Breitman, Norman Goda, Timothy Naftali, Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence and the Cold War, www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitler's-shadow.pdf. More recently still, this subject was explored in a new book by Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (New Haven, 2014).
- Michael J. Cohen, Palestine: Retreat from the Mandate, 1936–1945 (London/New York, 1978), p. 84.
- Churchill's letter of July 13, 1944 is on p. 355 of the paperback edition of my Churchill and the Jews (London, 2003); see also Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews (London, 2007), p. 212, and my review of same, “The Churchill—Gilbert Symbiosis: Myth and Reality,” in Modern Judaism, XXVII:2 (May 2008). In his Auschwitz and the Allies (New York, 1981), Gilbert described in detail the number of transports that continued to bring Jews to Auschwitz from all corners of Europe until November 2, 1944. Churchill's private archive in Cambridge was closed until the mid-1990s to all but Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer.
- Cohen, Palestine: Retreat, op.cit., pp. 98–99. The file in question is WM (40), Cab 65/5/39.
- Sharfman refers throughout to the Jewish “Army” plan, whereas all sides involved at the time referred to it as a Jewish “Division.”
- Yoav Gelber, Jewish Palestinian Volunteering during the Second World War [Hebrew], vol. 1 (Jerusalem, 1979). Sharfman's bibliography lists no fewer than eleven works by Prof. Gelber, Sharfman's mentor.
- Dalia Ofer, Illegal Immigration during the Holocaust (Jerusalem, 1988) [Hebrew].
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- Anthony Eden suggested that once the war was over, the Soviets would desire to “escape responsibility on the continent,” not mount a massive effort to exert control as far westward as possible, short of World War III. See Eden's appraisal of likely Soviet policy toward Europe once victory had been achieved as conveyed to US officials in Washington, DC in March 1943. Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (New York, 1948), pp. 708–09.