The Reckoning: How the Killing of One Man Changed the Fate of the Promised Land. Patrick Bishop

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       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Author’s Note

       Glossary

       Maps

       Prologue

       1 ‘There Are Few Who Do Good and Many That Do Evil’

       2 ‘This Was the Job for Me’

       3 ‘Let Fists Be Flung Like Stone’

       4 ‘A Soul for a Soul and Blood for Blood’

       5 ‘And He Is a Rebel, Eager for the Storm’

       6 ‘In the Underground’

       7 ‘They Will Cover Your Memory with Spittle and Disgrace’

       8 A ‘Trap for the British Brutes’

       9 ‘Al-Ta’Amod!’

       10 ‘It Doesn’t Matter If They Kill Me’

       11 ‘Avraham, Avraham’

       12 ‘The Blood of Your Brethren Is Calling to You from the Grave’

       13 ‘Hatred Was Aflame in Their Hearts and the Need for Vengeance Burned’

       14 ‘Terrorism Is an Infectious Disease’

       15 ‘Striking a Blow against the Falsification of History’

       16 ‘It’s Nothing Like the Truth’

       17 ‘The Holy City’

       Acknowledgements

       Notes

       Index

       Picture Section

       Also by Patrick Bishop

       About the Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

Dedication

      IN MEMORY OF RICK BEESTON

      AND

      IAN MACKENZIE

Author’s Note

      I have not tried to impose any orthodoxy on spellings of Jewish and Arab personal and place names, which inevitably vary in transliteration. To keep things simple I have left some as they appear in contemporary documents, while those that might seem confusingly archaic have been updated. In writing the story I found it had a habit of straying from the path to dart down some fascinating alleyway. To keep the narrative moving, I have sometimes explored these byways in the source notes. Consulting them may also help to answer questions arising from the text.

Glossary

      Balfour Declaration

      Statement issued by the British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour in November 1917 that the government favoured the idea that Palestine would one day be a ‘a national home for the Jewish people’.

      Betar

      Militaristic youth organisation of the Revisionist movement. Particularly strong in Poland.

      Haganah

      ‘The Defence’. Militia founded in 1920 to defend ‘Jewish lives, property and honour’. Under the control of the left-leaning Zionist establishment.

      Havlagah

      Policy of self-restraint in the face of Arab attacks. Favoured initially by the Haganah and the Yishuv’s leaders but opposed by the Revisionists.

      Irgun Zvai Leumi

      The ‘National Military Organization’, which broke away from the Haganah in 1931 in protest at its unpreparedness in the face of Arab violence. Revisionist in outlook.

      Jewish Agency

      The body officially representing the Yishuv to the British administration of Palestine and the outside world.

      Lehi