Crowley County Combined Library

Collects twenty-four articles in which various viewpoints about issues pertaining to the Middle East are presented, covering topics such as the promotion of democracy, peace between Israel and Palestine, the threat of a nuclear Iran, and the efforts of Middle Eastern countries to counter terrorism.

The Missing Peace, published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside account of the Middle East peace process ever written. Dennis Ross, the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the presidential administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, is that rare figure who is respected by all parties: Democrats and Republicans, Palestinians and Israelis, presidents and people on the street in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Washington, D.C. Ross...

Drawing on thousands of government documents and personal letters, featuring original maps and over sixty photographs, this book reconstructs the diverse and remarkable ways in which Americans have interacted with this alluring yet often hostile land stretching from Morocco to Iran, from the Persian Gulf to the Bosporus.--From publisher description.

Peace in the Middle East is the ever-elusive holy grail of diplomacy, a goal that much of the wider world fervently wishes to achieve. Modern efforts to achieve a formal, broad-based set of peace treaties between Israel and its various Arab neighbors, as well as a solution to the Palestinian homeland question, have ultimately foundered after some early promise and hard-won negotiating breakthroughs. Entrenched political interests, lack of good faith...

A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Andrew J. Bacevich,...

Presents twenty-four essays that argue opposing points regarding the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, whether Israel should exist, whether peace in the region is possible, and what the U.S.'s policy toward Israel should be; and includes discussion questions, a chronology, and an annotated list of related organizations.

Documentary that charts the travels of five Israeli and Palestinian teenage girls. Their goals: to break down barriers between enemy cultures and to meet with George W. Bush. The girls travel in an RV that takes them across the USA.