Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. Part I. The Petroleum Order and the Palestine Question, 1945–1946
6. 1. The Primacy of Oil 3
7. 2. The Palestine Question: 1945 23
8. Part II. The Question of Partition and the Oil Connection, 1947–1948
9. 3. The Critical Year: 1947 57
10. 4. The Winter of Discontent: 1948 79
11. 5. The Oil Connection 91
12. Part III. Beware “Anomalous Situation,” 1948
13. 6. The Transformation of Palestine 115
14. 7. Truce and Trusteeship 137
15. 8. Recognition and Response 159
16. Part IV. Rethinking U.S. Policy in Palestine/Israel, 1948
17. 9. Reconsidering U.S. Policy in Palestine 183
18. 10. The Palestine Refugee Problem 201
19. 11. The State Department on the Record 220
20. Part V. The End as the Beginning, 1948–49
21. 12. The PCC, Armistice, Lausanne, and Palestinian Refugees 243
22. 13. The View from the Pentagon and the National Security Council 275
23. 14. The Israeli–U.S. Oil Connection and Expanding U.S. Oil Interests 293
24. Part VI. In Place of a Conclusion
25. Reflections on Discovery, Denial, and Deferral 305
26. Notes 325
27. Index 389