• DOI:10.3751/70.1.14
Corpus ID: 146857773

Cementing a State of Belligerency: The 1949 Armistice Negotiations between Israel and Syria

@article{Waage2016CementingAS,
  title={Cementing a State of Belligerency: The 1949 Armistice Negotiations between Israel and Syria},
  author={H. H. Waage and Hilde Henriksen Petter Stenberg},
  journal={The Middle East Journal},
  year={2016},
  volume={70},
  pages={69 - 89}
}

H. H. Waage, Hilde Henriksen Petter Stenberg

Published 2016

Sociology

The Middle East Journal

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After the Arab states’ devastating defeat in the 1948 war with Israel, Syria refused to give in without a fight. Syria held on to several bridgeheads inside the former Palestine. Proving as skillful as their Israeli opponents at the game of contradictory arguments, the Syrians steadfastly refused to concede to Israel’s demands. The negotiations in 1949 eventually resulted in a demilitarized zone on the Syrian-Israeli border, and with it a state of belligerency was cemented.