As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Palestine, the only solution that he feels will bring lasting peace.
Dore Gold has the goods on Saudi Arabia, proving how it is actively supporting terrorism. Using previously unpublished documents, Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN and internationally known Middle East strategy expert, pieces together the links between the current wave of global terrorism -- from the World Trade Center to Bali, Indonesia -- and the ideology of hatred taught in the schoo…
Israel Weissbrem, whose complex themes were taken from the lives of educated and wealthy Jews of Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, and whose writings all but disappeared in the twentieth, wrote in a vein of melodrama and fantasy, with an ironic and frequently savage wit. His cast of characters is extraordinarily diverse and appears to reflect attitudes - toward the religious,…
Contents: 1. Introduction: New historiographical orientation in the research on the Palestine question - Part 1: The history of Palestine rediscovered 2. Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: Writing Palestinians into history 3. The rise of the sanjak of Jerusalem in the late nineteenth century - Part 2: The origins of zionism in Palestine reconsidered 4. The colonization perspective in…
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 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…
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 …
Ketika Anda memegang buku ini, ketahuilah bahwa ribuan orang Palestina tengah berjuang mempertahankan hidupnya. Tentara-tentara Israel mungkin tengah mengebom kota-kota dan kamp-kamp pengungsian, menembaki dan menangkapi para pemuda, menyiksa anak-anak dan balita, melecehkan dan memperkosa kaum wanita, serta menganiaya orang tua. Ketahuilah pula bahwa hal itu sudah terjadi sejak 60 tahun yang l…
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…