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Language
English
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Presents an examination of Israel that traces the events that led the country to its current state of conflict through the stories of everyday citizens to illuminate the importance of lesser-known historical events. It is an authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today. Here the author draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries,...
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At a time when Israel is under persistent attack--on the battlefield, by international organizations, and in the court of public opinion--Alan Dershowitz presents a powerful case for Israel's just war against terrorism. He shows why Israel's struggle against Hamas is a fight not only to protect its own citizens, but for all democracies. The nation-state of the Jewish people is providing a model for all who are threatened by terrorist groups--such...
10) The shortest history of Israel and Palestine: from Zionism to Intifadas and the struggle for peace
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Series
Publisher
The Experiment, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An accessible, balanced history for anyone who wants to understand how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century"--
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Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1310L
Language
English
Description
This book describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, explaining that under the partition plan, Palestinians were allotted 4500 square miles, while the new Jewish state occupied 5500 square miles, and today the conflict remains complex and controversial.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and...
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Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since ancient times discussing the four thousand-year-old claim to the land, nineteenth-century Zionism, British occupation and Israeli statehood, the Six-Day War, Intifada, and more.
Series
AEI studies volume 350
Publisher
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
In his latest work, renowned Israeli author and academic Pappe (A History of Modern Palestine) does not mince words, doing Jimmy Carter one better (or worse, depending on one's point of view) by accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity beginning in the 1948 war for independence, and continuing through the present. Focusing primarily on Plan D (Dalet, in Hebrew), conceived on March 10, 1948, Pappe demonstrates how ethnic cleansing...
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In a near-future world in which a visionary woman U.S. president brokers a major compromise between Israel and Palestine, decorated Mossad officer Elihu works to hunt down a legendary terrorist who has taken a high-profile fundamentalist rabbi hostage.
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Righteous Victims, is a comprehensive and objective history of the long battle between Arabs and Jews for possession of a land they both call home."--BOOK JACKET. "Professor Morris finds the roots of this conflict in the deep religious, ethnic, and political differences between the Zionist immigrants and the native Arab population of Palestine."--Jacket.
"Tracing the successes and failures of politicians, generals, and diplomats in both camps, he...