The Arab War Against Israel: Israeli Wartime Propaganda Book on the 1948 Palestine War

Title: מלחמת הערבים בישראל (Milḥemet ha-ʻAravim be-Yisrael, “The Arab War Against Israel”)
English Title: The Arab War Against Israel
Author: Alexander Dothan
Language: Hebrew, English, and Arabic
Format: Hardcover documentary album
Binding: Brown hardcover with gilt Hebrew and English title on front cover
Subject: 1948 Palestine War, Arab-Israeli War, siege of Jerusalem, Arab armies, Arab press, Israeli wartime propaganda, documentary photography, political cartoons, military history
Contents: Photographs, maps, Arabic newspaper excerpts, Hebrew and English translations, political cartoons, military captions, and documentary plates
Quoted Sources: Includes a list of quoted newspapers from Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, Amman, Jaffa/Jerusalem, and elsewhere, including al-Ahram, Akhbar al-Yom, al-Misri, al-Mussawar, Falastin, al-Difa‘, al-Zaman, al-Nahar, and others
Condition: Original brown hardcover with rubbing, scuffs, edge wear, and light surface marks. Interior pages show age toning and handling wear, with images and text remaining clearly legible. Binding intact.

Description:

A rare Israeli wartime propaganda book on the 1948 Palestine War, assembled to frame the Arab military and political campaign as a coordinated assault on Israel’s founding.

The Arab War Against Israel uses photographs, Arabic press excerpts, maps, cartoons, Hebrew and English translations, and editorial captions to build a visual indictment. Arab newspapers, speeches, fundraising appeals, invasion maps, and cartoons are reproduced beside images of destruction, troops, weapons, commanders, refugee camps, armored vehicles, and military formations. The book does not simply document the war. It prosecutes it on the page.

Moving from Jerusalem to the wider regional conflict, the book covers the Arab Legion, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the Arab League, the truce, refugee politics, and Arab press coverage. Its Hebrew, English, and Arabic format turns Arab wartime print culture into material for Israeli counter-propaganda, translating and reframing enemy media for Hebrew and international readers.

A scarce artifact of early Israeli wartime propaganda, documenting how the 1948 war was narrated through photography, translation, military imagery, political cartoons, accusation, and visual evidence.

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