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2017.
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Enemies and Neighbors is a big, textured, and, crucially, balanced account of over 100 years of the Israel-Palestine conflict, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration (the famous pledge made by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 expressing sympathy for a national Jewish home in Palestine). 2017 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War in June 1967, during which Israel seized its current borders. Much of the existing...
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Pub. Date
2018
Description
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes.I call you "neighbor" because I dont know your name, or anything personal about you. Given our circumstances,...
24) Israel
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This book presents a history of the nation of Israel and a discussion of how the history of that nation and of the Jewish people fuel turmoil in Middle East today, especially the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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"... traces the course of the events of 1913 through the lives of a handful of Jerusalem's leading citizens as they struggle to save the city that had been the focus of the passions of so many different groups for centuries, a struggle that would have reverberations for generations to come"--Jacket.
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"President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land, most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2005 and 2006." "In this book President Carter shares his intimate knowledge of the history of the Middle East...
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Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Complete with maps and photographs, a guide provides a comprehensive review of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a review of the area's history, its people, significant past and present events, and definitions of commonly used terms.
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Pub. Date
2006
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Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing." Decisively debunking the myth that the...
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Pub. Date
1998
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The author "traces Israel's history from the struggles of its pioneers in the nineteenth century up to the present day. Along the way, he describes the defining moments in the history of the Jewish people, among them the Balfour Declaration of 1917; the United Nations Partition Resolution of 1947; and the founding of the State of Israel in 1948."--Jacket.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who reported on the events as it happened, an action-packed account of Reagan's failures in the 1983 Marines barracks bombing in Beirut. On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut. 241 Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack our nation would suffer until 9/11. We're still feeling the repercussions today. When Reagan Sent In the Marines tells why the Marines...
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Pub. Date
2008
Description
ISRALESTINE; The Ancient Blueprints of the Future Middle East Set to explode in the not so distant future, is a devastating war in the Middle East. The Jews will fight off Arab aggression and end terrorism once and for all ISRALESTINE; The Ancient Blueprints of the Future Middle East, boldly unveils significant Bible prophecy that has eluded the discernment of todays great scholars. Once upon a foretold time the Jewish people were to meet with a holocaust...
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Series
Sam Deker adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Israeli counter-terrorism agent Sam Deker is abducted by radical adversaries and finds himself seemingly transported through time to the eve of a historical battle in ancient Israel, an event he fears may be tied to torture-induced psychosis.
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