The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict of the twentieth century. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to assume the hostilities stretch back to an ancient period. This is the first book to provide a clear, accessible, and annotated introduction that covers the full 2,000-year history of the region, from biblical times until…
The peculiar demographic landscape of J&K consists of three distinct geographical and ethnic groups with conflicting political aspirations. The solution must fulfill the legitimate economic, ethnic, social and political aspirations or people in different regions-Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir. Kashmir continues to cause concern. Over the years, the problems have assumed dangerous proportions. A Pred…
The late summer headlines of a landmark peace accord between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization stunned and delighted citizens of conscience from every walk of life and from all over the world. Here, at last, were the first glimmerings of harmony for a region whose bloody, intractable conflicts between Arab and Jew had outlived hot and cold wars alike to become a…
The Battle for Pakistan is a historic odyssey of the titanic struggle for the creation of Pakistan covering all significant events concisely from the Battle of Plassey in 1757 till the birth of Pakistan in 1947. It maintains that the partition of India was the result of a short-sighted, unaccommodating, uncharitable attitude and the wrong tactical moves in the policy of the Congress towards the…
The contents of this book: 1. The Hindu-Muslims Divide 2. Option-India 3. The First War - 1947-48 4. Kashmir - An Obsession 5. Another Attempt - Battling for Kashmir Again
The Kashmir dispute has dominated Indo-Pakistani relations ever since the Transfer of Power over forty years ago; and it has played a major part in the genesis of the Sino-Indian boundary dispute. Alastair Lamb, on the basis of research carried on over thirty years examines the history of this dispute from its remote origins in the first half of the 19th century, when the State of Jammu and Kas…
When Zionist leaders formulated the "Iron Wall" strategy in the 1920s they hoped that Israel would be able to make peace with its Arab neighbours. This has been an elusive hope. In this text, Shlaim explores the reason for Israel's long reliance on military power in the absence of a settlement.
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, it also illustrates the move towards finding peace and the efforts to bring the horrors of the fighting to an end through negotiation and proposals for agreed boundaries. In 155 maps, the complete history of the conflict is …
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…
Buku ini berisi: 1. Pendahuluan 2. Konflik Arab-Israel 3. Resolusi PBB No 1701 4. Masa persiapan 5. Penantian panjang yang berakhir 6. Medan tugas 7. Kegiatan di medan tugas 8. Penutup