Arab Attitudes to Israel

4. Israel's Anti-Arab Activities -- a) General -- b) Israel As the Enemy of Arab Nationalism -- c) Israel As an Enemy of Social Progress -- d) Zionist Anti-Arab Propaganda -- 5. Favourable and Ambivalent References -- a) Modernity and Efficiency -- b) Unity -- c) Spiritual Values -- d) Ambivalence -- 6. Scurrility, Absurdity and Falsehood in Arab Statements -- a) Scurrility -- b) Measurement -- c) Absurdities -- d) Falsehood and Distortions -- CHAPTER 7. THE ARABS' SELF-IMAGE IN THE CONFLICT -- 1. The Self-Image -- a) Self-Criticism -- 2. History in the Light of the Self-image -- a) General -- b) The National Struggle in Palestine -- c) The Resort to War -- d) The Shock of Defeat -- e) Explanations For the Defeat -- f) Basic Social Factors in the Downfall -- g) Criticism of the Army and the Conduct of Hostilities -- h) Defeat Ascribed to Western Plots -- i) Combined Explanations -- j) Good Out of Evil -- CHAPTER 8. FROM IDEOLOGY TO ATTITUDE -- 1. Errors in Evaluation -- 2. Sincerity of Arab Statements -- a) Are The Declarations Propaganda For Internal -- Consumption? -- b) Is It Extremism For Bargaining Or Defence? -- c) Is It A Ritual Ideology? -- d) Sometimes The Arabs Talk Differently -- e) Leaders and Writers -- f) Conviction and Coherence -- g) Sincerity As A Developing Process -- 3. Distribution Of Ideology and Images -- a) Factors Influencing Identification -- b) Summing Up -- 4. Importance of Ideology and Images -- a) The Catharsis Argument -- b) The Gap Between Talk and Action -- 5. Geopolitical and Psychological Factors -- a) The United Arab Republic -- b) Jordan -- c) Syria -- d) Lebanon -- e) Interaction of Factors -- 6. The Nature of the Arab Attitude -- a) The Formation of the Arab Attitude -- b) Different Strata in the Arab Attitude -- c) Agreement on the Objective, Differences on Methods -- d) The Goal and the Plan -- e) Summing Up