Index: People, A

• Abba Eban — Israel’s ambassador in Washington and UN representative who, in Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, voices the Western orientation abroad: the 200,000-soldiers agreement with Morgenthau, “flawed” Arab aspirations, and a proposed Dutch citation for work against Indonesia.
• Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad — Local commander of poor peasant origin whose killing in March 1939 was a crushing blow to the revolt.
• Abd al-Rahim Mahmud — Nationalist poet of the early 1930s whose 1935 poem to Amir Saud became part of the revolutionary heritage.
• Abd el-Wahhab Darawshe — Labor Knesset member who resigned over the army’s handling of the intifada and founded the Arab Democratic Party for the 1988 elections on a coalition-bargaining strategy.
• Abdullah al-Tal — Former Jordanian Legion commander whose memoirs are a principal source in Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace for the secret 1948 Israel–Abdullah negotiations, including the 11/12 May 1948 Amman meeting.
• Abraham Isaac Kook — Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), Ashkenazic chief rabbi of Palestine from 1921, whose mystical doctrine that secular Zionist settlement of the Land carries out a divine plan is, in Lustick’s account, the foundation of Jewish fundamentalism.
• Abraham Wyner — Professor whose Tablet analysis of GMOH casualty correlations supplies Figures 17-18 of Debunking the Genocide Allegations Chapter 5.
• Abram Leon — Belgian Jewish revolutionary socialist, author of The Jewish Question, gassed at Auschwitz; in Rose (1986) the authority on the Jewish question whose broker analysis frames the closing programme.
• Abu Is’af — Sha’b fighter Ibrahim ‘Ali al-Shaykh Khalil (1908–2002), leader of one of Galilee’s best fighting units, in Manna’s account.
• Abu Salma — Poet (Abd al-Karim al-Karmi) who chronicled the 1936 revolt and its abandonment by the Arab kings in verse.
• Adam Hanieh — Author of “The Oslo illusion” in From the River to the Sea, on Oslo’s class base and the Palestinian Authority’s dependence.
• Adel Manna — Palestinian historian from Majd al-Krum, author of Nakba and Survival, whose own family was expelled to Ayn al-Hilwa and returned by sea in 1951.
• Adib Shishakly — The ALA’s Galilee commander who replaced Safad’s able defender and refused arms to Ghuwayr, later one of Syria’s rulers, in Pappe’s account.
• Admiral Barjot — French forces’ general commander in the Suez war who procured the French naval shelling of Rafah on Dayan’s 29 October 1956 request.
• Adolf Eichmann — Head of the Reich Security Services’ Jewish Affairs department, tried in Jerusalem in 1961–62 and executed, in Lahav’s account.
• Adolf Hitler — Nazi leader who came to power on 30 January 1933; the ZVfD solicited his regime’s patronage after 1933, in Brenner’s account.
• Ahad Ha’am — Cultural Zionist leader who sought “not merely a state of Jews but truly a Jewish state” and first challenged Zionist avoidance of the Arab issue (1891), as Dowty presents him.
• Aharon Cohen — Mapam leader who met Fu’ad Nassar, defended special treatment for League men, and commented on the Czech arms, in Manna’s account.
• Ahmad Abu-Laban — Jaffa Emergency Committee head who signed the 13 May 1948 surrender, won a Supreme Court release the authorities delayed for weeks, and emigrated to Jordan, in Manna’s account.
• Ahmed Abu Artema — Founder of the Great March of Return, quoted that Palestinians sought to “break from behind prison walls”.
• Ahmed al-Jabari — Hamas military leader assassinated on November 14, 2012 while negotiating a truce, whose killing Falk treats as the provocation opening the November 2012 attack on Gaza.
• Akiva Orr — Matzpen socialist, co-author with Moshe Machover of “The Class Character of Israel” (1969).
• Albert Hourani — Historian quoted by Said for the Middle Eastern minorities as closed communities, each a world sufficient to its members.
• Alberto Toscano — Author of “Israel, fascism, and the war against the Palestinian People” in From the River to the Sea, on fascism as immanent to settler-colonialism.
• Alec Kirkbride — Britain’s ambassador in Jordan, described as in fact the state’s leader, playing politically the role Glubb played militarily.
• Ali Abunimah — Author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine whose preface Falk quotes to open Part 4, and of One Country in Makdisi’s Coda.
• Ali Mustafa — Interviewer of Barghouti in Chapter 12 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, “‘Boycotts Work’”, in Barghouti’s book.
• Alice Walker — Author of the 2010 Foreword to Palestine Inside Out, framing the book as bearing witness to the truth, in Makdisi’s book.
• Alphonse de Lamartine — French writer whose 1833 Résumé politique cancelled Palestine’s resident Arabs by a future colonial wish, in Said’s reading.
• Alvaro de Soto — Former U.N. envoy to the Quartet whose leaked confidential report is a principal Coda source on the 2006 elections, Hamas’s isolation and the two-state solution’s erosion, in Makdisi’s account.
• Amin al-Hussaini — Hajj Amin al-Hussaini, the Mufti, head of the Arab Higher Committee and of the feudal-clerical leadership.
• Amin Jarjura — Nazareth lawyer and first-Knesset MK on the Nazareth Democratic list who defended the refugees’ right of return from the Knesset podium and called Nazareth’s takeover an occupation, in Manna’s account.
• Amir Abdullah — Amir of Transjordan, the leading figure of the surrounding Arab regimes that mediated the revolt’s end.
• Amira Hass — Israeli journalist quoted by Makdisi on the permit regime barring Jerusalem Palestinians from the West Bank and the Shin Bet’s collaborator recruitment.
• Amos Elon — Israeli author of a recent book about the Israelis, quoted by Said for the settlers’ blindness toward the Arabs and the purpose of Avoda Ivrit.
• Amos Oz — Israeli novelist whose “drowning man” plank Makdisi answers as the Zionist left’s case for unequal partition over equal sharing.
• Andrei Gromyko — Soviet Foreign Minister whose 26 November 1947 partition speech Peace, Peace quotes as proof of Soviet consistency on both peoples’ rights.
• Andrews — British District Commissioner of Galilee, whose assassination in Nazareth in September 1937 restarted the revolt.
• Angela Davis — Black academic whose Palestine solidarity led to the rescinding, then protest, of her Birmingham Civil Rights Institute award in 2019.
• Annie Levin — Co-author, with Sumaya Awad, of Chapter 1, “Roots of the Nakba: Zionist Settler Colonialism”.
• Anthony Eden — British prime minister whose 9/11/55 Guildhall speech proposing a compromise between the ceasefire and Partition lines drew replies from Ben-Gurion and Nasser.
• Anton Shammas — Israeli Arab novelist who asked for a new definition of “Israeli” that would include him, in Dowty’s Chapter 9.
• António Guterres — UN Secretary-General whose October 27, 2023 statement is identified as the origin of the 500-trucks-a-day claim.
• Anwar al-Sadat — President of Egypt, whose program Said treats as entirely Egyptian: attacking Israel’s monopoly of U.S. support rather than fighting Israel directly.
• Aref abd-al-Razeq — 1936-39 rebel commander whose 1938 appeal to the Jews of Palestine is reproduced in Peace, Peace’s Appendix 11.
• Arend Lijphart — Political scientist whose majoritarian/consensus distinction and consociationalism framework Dowty uses to classify Israeli democracy.
• ‘Arif al-‘Arif — Jerusalemite historian whose six-volume diary-based Al-Nakba: Nakbat Bayt al-Maqdis wal-firdaws al-mafqud 1947–49 Manna presents as a major early detailed work on the Nakba.
• Arik Sharon — General and minister of agriculture to whom Begin left the post-Camp David settlements project, quoted by Said from Ma’ariv, January 26, 1979, on roads and military infrastructure in the West Bank.
• Arnon Sofer — Haifa University professor and Sharon adviser who expected separation to produce “voluntary transfer”, in Makdisi’s account.
• Ashley J. Bohrer — Author of “Not in anyone’s name” in From the River to the Sea, on Jewish anti-Zionist organizing and Jewish Voice for Peace.
• Asmaa Abu Mezied — Author of two chapters in Light in Gaza (2022) — on recording as resistance to erasure, and on peasantry, land and place attachment; the recording chapter is excerpted in From the River to the Sea.
• Avi Shlaim — Israeli “new historian” whose work Makdisi draws on for Zionist awareness of the Arab presence, the 1948 military balance, the Jordanian agreement and Plan Dalet.
• Avraham Dar — Military Intelligence officer who invented the staged Fedayeen capture of 29 October 1956, in Kafkafi’s account.
• ‘Awda al-‘Ashhab — League communist found in the Abu ‘Ujayla camp, imprisoned in Israel, and reunited with his smuggled-in family only in 1954 after a Knesset sit-in, in Manna’s account.
• Ayman Odeh — Joint List and Hadash leader whose “impact policies” of integration Soheir Asaad criticizes in From the River to the Sea.
• Azmi Bishara — Palestinian intellectual credited with revolutionizing study of the Arab Question and resituating Palestine in its Arab dimension.