This book presents a new interpretation of the historical and contemporary realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bernard Wasserstein challenges the conventional view of the struggle as driven primarily by irrational, nationalist and religious ideologies. Instead he focuses on hitherto relatively neglected dimensions population, labour, environment and the social dynamics of political c…
Contents: 1. Historical background 2. Jerusalem under the British mandate 3. The international regime for Jerusalem under the partition resolution 4. The de facto division of Jerusalem, 1948 5. Reaffirmations of the principle of the internationalisation of Jerusalem 6. The proposals of the conciliation commission for Palestine for an international regime for Jerusalem
Kapal Mavi Marmara adalah misi bantuan kemanusiaan untuk rakyat Gaza, Palestina, yang diblokade oleh penjajah Israel. Terdiri dari 600 orang relawan yang berasal dari beragam etnis dan agama yang berbeda, juga mengangkut berbagai elemen bantuan kemanusiaan. Dan tampaknya inilah yang menjadikan zionis Israel ketakutan. Kapal Mavi Marmara pun diserbu dengan gas air mata dan peluru tajam. Sembilan…
Ketika anda membaca buku ini, Israel mungkin sedang melakukan pembunuhan terhadap bocah-bocah maupun perempuan-perempuan tak berdosa di bumi Palestina. Mereka menghancurkan rumah-rumah bangsa Palestina, di kota dan di desa. Bandara, yang menjadi satu-satunya jalur perhubungan udara Palestina, juga tak henti-hentinya dirusak Israel. Sebagai negara Yahudi (The Jewish State) yang merupakan buah…
Invasi ke Irak membawa ribuan cerita, mulai dari militer, politik hingga tragedi kemanusiaan. Buku ini menampilkan artikel-artikel bertema kisah dan sejarah, yang melingkupi perang besar di Irak pada bulan Maret-April 2003. Mulai dari sudut pandang ironi sejarah, peran PBB, fenomena Al Jazeera, kontak bisnis di Irak hingga kisah pengungsi dan korban lainnya.
Perjuangan sedikitnya memerlukan tiga prasyarat utama: pengorbanan, kesabaran, dan keteguhan. Inilah, paling tidak, yang terlihat jelas dari sosok Imam Ayatullah Khomeini (1902-1989) ketika berjuang melawan rezim Dinasti Pahlevi. Sebelum akhirnya berhasil menggerakkan revolusi yang menggulingkan rezim Syah-Reza Pahlevi, Ayatullah harus keluar masuk penjara dan selama 15 tahun harus menjalani hi…
When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came to power upon his father's death in 2000, many in- and outside Syria held high hopes that the popular young doctor would bring long-awaited reform, that he would be a new kind of Middle East leader capable of guiding his country toward genuine democracy. David Lesch was one of those who saw this promise in Assad. A widely respected Middle East scholar …
Journalist Jonathan Cook explores Israel’s key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel’s own. This concise and clearly argued book makes the case that Israel's desire to be the sole regional power in the Middl…
A military chronicle of the Iraq war is a critical assessment of America's role as viewed from the firsthand perspectives of senior military officers that argues that the guerrilla insurgency that took place in the months after the fall of Saddam Hussein was avoidable and that officers who spoke against the war did so at the cost of their careers.
During the last presidential election in Iran, nonviolent protestors defied the mullahs’ power by wearing green ribbons on their wrists. In June of 2009, the inhabitants of Tehran were living underground to escape the government’s authority, strangled by interdictions, dreaming of freedom and revolution. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran and desperate to maintai…