The Rising Tide of Terror or, Three Years of an "Armistice" in the Holy Land by [MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT - 1948 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR] [KHALIDI, Thabet] - 1952

Amman, Jordan: Press & Publicity Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 34pp; illus. Inscribed on front wrapper to the Biblical archaeologist J.L. Kelso by an unidentified Jordanian dignitary (signature illegible), "Bethlehem / H.K. [Hashemite Kingdom] Jordan," undated but apparently contemporary. Mild external wear, with some creasing and darkening to covers; else Fine. Catalog of atrocities reputedly committed by Israeli defense forces against Palestinian civilians in the three years following the 1949 armistice ending the Arab-Israeli War. In the great tradition of war-time propaganda, the pamphlet is replete with gruesome photographs of torture victims, murdered children, and disfigured corpses, contrasted with examples of the humane treatment afforded Israeli prisoners by their Arab captors. Uncommon; not seen in commerce, with a dozen scattered North American locations noted in OCLC.