My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900-1948 Book

	Preface	7
	Acknowledgements	11
1	A Harmony of Interests or Discordant Objectives? Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination	13
	Zionist Policy toward tbe Arab States	19
	Toward a Zionist "Foreign Ministry"	15
	Lebanon as the Focus of Zionist Attention	24
	The Minority Alliance Option	28
2	Early Zionist-Maronite Encounters	38
	Early Zionist Interest in Lebanon	39
	The Maronites	46
	Early Zionist-Maronite Interaction	51
	A Zionist-Maronite Treaty, 1920	56
3	Zionist Experiences in Lebanon	61
	Pro-Zionist Maronites in Lebanon	61
	Practical Zionist-Lebanese Intercourse	67
	From Berlin to Beirut: The Proposal to Bring
	German Jewish Refugees to Lebanon	76
	Lebanese Jewry and the Phalange: Implications For Zionist Activity in Lebanon	81
4	Zionist Political Activity in Lebanon	88
	Attempts at Concluding a Zionist-Lebanese Agreement	89
	The Arab Revolt and General Strike, 1936-1939	95
	The 1937 Peel Commission	98
	The Mufti in Lebanon	102
	Zionist-Lebanese Relations along the Border	112
5	The Zionist-Maronite Alliiance: Pressure to Produce Results	117
	Zionist Influence in Lebanon: A Casualty of war	118
	Desperation as the Motivation for Cooperation	126
	Zionist-Maronite Coordination in the United States	131
	The 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry	134
	The Zionist-Maronite Treaty and the
	United Nations Special Committee on Palestine	136
6	Conclusion	147
	Appendices	161
	A. Antoine Pierre Arida to Chaim Weizmann, 24 May 1946	163
	B. Tewfik Awad to Bernard Joseph, 30 May 1946	164
	C. Bernard Joseph to Tewfik Awad, 30 May 1946	165
	D. Bernard Joseph to Antoine Pierre Arida, 30 May 1946	166
	E. Treaty between the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Maronite Church, 30 May 1946	167
	Abbreviations	170
	Notes	171
	Bibliography	205
	Index	213