I. Terms.

Aliyah: Jewish immigration to Palestine or Israel; an immigration wave
Amorites: ethnic group including perhaps the Aramean subgroup
Arameans: Abram's immediate ethnic group
Diaspora: Jewish life, especially in groups, outside of Palestine
Eretz Israel: "the Land of Israel"
Hagana: yishuv's official underground military forces
IDF: Israeli Defense Forces; succeeded the Hagana
Irgun: 1931-48, unofficial yishuv underground military-terrorist organization led by Menachem Begin 1940-48
Lehi: 1940-48, unofficial yishuv military-terrorist organization aka Stern Gang
Moral right: either a) inherent: possessor has it independently of any human law or decree, e.g., the right to life or to religion; or b) semi-inherent: it may flow partly from one or more primary moral rights and partly from human law or other type of legal action, e.g., some inheritance rights & political rights
Objective morality: moral rightness or wrongness of an act considered just in itself, regardless of what the one doing the act thinks of its morality
Palmach: full-time, elite core of the Hagana
Pogrom: organized persecution, especially of Russian Jews
Subjective morality: the moral rightness or wrongness of an act as perceived by the one doing it
Yishuv: the Jewish community in Palestine, especially Zionists

II. People who are less well-known but repeatedly mentioned in the book.

Abdullah ibn-Hussein 1882-1951 Trans-Jordan's emir 1921-46, king 1946-51
Attlee, Clement 1883-1967 Br. prime minister 1945-51
Austin, Warren 1877-1963 US ambassador to UN under Truman
Balfour, Arthur 1848-1930 Br. foreign secretary under Lloyd George
Baruch, Bernard 1870-1965 Roosevelt adviser, devised plan to settle Jewish refugees in Africa
Ben-Gurion, David 1886-1973 headed Jewish workers in Palestine, & Palestine Executive of Jewish Agency, Israeli prime minister 1948-53, 1955-63
Begin, Menachem 1913-92 headed yishuv revisionists & Irgun, Israeli prime minister 1977-84
Bevin, Ernest 1884-1951 Br. foreign secretary under Attlee
Blaustein, Jacob 1892-1970 led AJC Executive Com., Truman era
Boadt, Lawrence 1942- Old Testament scholar
Brandeis, Louis 1856-1941 US Supreme Court justice, Zionist leader
Byrnes, James 1879-1972 US secretary of state 1945-47
Clifford, Clark 1906- Truman adviser
Curzon, George 1859-1925 chairperson of British cabinet committee on Middle East acquisitions 1917, foreign secretary 1919-24
Feisal ibn-Hussein 1885-1933 allegedly signed two pledges to support Jewish home in Palestine, king briefly of Syria, then of Iraq
Frankfurter, Felix 1882-1965 US Supreme Court justice, Zionist leader
Haj Amin al-Husseini 1893-1974 grand mufti of Jerusalem, Palestine political leader, staunch opponent of Zionism
Hussein Ibn Ali (Sherif) 1856-1931 Arab leader in Ottoman Empire, negotiated with British; cf. two sons, Abdullah & Feisal
Jabotinsky, Vladimir 1880-1940 leader of revisionists, once Zionism's most militant wing
Laqueur, Walter Zeev 1921- historian
Lloyd-George, David 1863-1945 British prime minister 1916-22
Lovett, Robert 1895-1986 undersecretary of state under Truman
Lowenthal, Max 1888-1971 Clifford's adviser on Palestine 1947-48, crucial White House advocate of Zionism
Marshall, George C. 1880-1959 secretary of state during Truman's 1st term, strongly questioned his Mideast policy
Neumann, Emanuel 1893-1980 organized Zionist fronts in Washington
Niles, David 1890-1952 Roosevelt/Truman aide, Truman's liaison with Jewish community
O'Brien, Conor C. 1917- wrote The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism
Proskauer, Joseph 1877-1971 president of American Jewish Committee (AJC), which was anti-Zionist to November, 1947
Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962 US delegate to UN, FDR's wife
Rusk, Dean 1909-94 State Department's head of Washington UN desk
Silver, Abba 1893-1963 rabbi, headed aggressive wing of US Zionism
Taft, Robert 1889-1953 senator from Ohio, strong Zionist supporter in Roosevelt/Truman eras
Urofsky, Melvin 1939- historian of Zionism
Wagner, Robert 1877-1953 senator from NY, lent name, support to Zionist lobby in Roosevelt/Truman eras
Weizmann, Chaim 1874-1952 usually Zionism's world leader from WWI to Israel's founding, Israeli president, 1949-52
Wilson, Woodrow 1856-1924 US president 1913-21
Wise, Stephen 1874-1949 rabbi, US Zionist leader