arab-israeli perspectives manufacturing dispossession

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Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel

10 reviews

Wiley, 2006

Beautifully Written and Provocative
Coming Together is a vast improvement over Home to Stay. The writing is absolutely beautiful, the ideas provocative. The heart of the book is Gordis's account of his family's adjustment to life in Israel, beginning at the tail end of the Second Intifada, when the Gordis family is kept awake in its Jerusalem home by gunfire at night, and terrified by suicide murders that take place in their ...

Elusive victory: The Arab-Israeli wars, 1947-1974

8 reviews
Trevor Nevitt Dupuy

Hero Books, 1984

THE Authority on the subject
This book is remarkable for what it is not: it is not a diatribe, it is not political, and it is not biased. It is a steadfastly-neutral account of the Arab-Israeli wars of the past sixty years and reflects the integrity and professionalism of the author. He is absolutely dedicated to presenting the perspectives of both sides of the conflict. It is meticulously researched and contains ...

The Mountains of Israel

12 reviews
Norma Parrish Archbold

Phoebe's Song, 1993

Eyes Opened To The Real Story of Middle East Conflict (Historically)
This is book is a must for everyone who wants to understand the Mideast conflict. It is a very quick read and worth the time to read it. It is very clear on the roots of the problem and why it is not something that will go away any time soon. I highly recommend the book. I was thinking to give it 4 stars as there was one area that I thought was slightly repetitive. However, this really ...

Jerusalem Diaries: In Tense Times

8 reviews
Judy Lash Balint

Gefen Publishing House, 2001

Essential Moving Stories Ignored By CNN, BBC, Sky et al.....
Judy Lash Balint reveals an extremely moving side to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict seldom seen through the cameras of CNN, Sky, the BBC or any other Western media outlet for that matter. Judy Balint reveals the side of a victim long forgotten by the media. The author presents the oft-ignored story of the innocent Jewish/Israeli victims of the Palestinian terrorist war. The innocent victims ...

The Israel-Arab Reader

10 reviews

Penguin, 2008

Essential reference to the whole Arab-Israeli issue.
I write in relation to the sixth revised and updated version of this work. My purchase was based upon the recommendations of others here and I was certainly not disappointed with my acquisition of this book. It really is a priceless reference and guide to the way in which the Middle East has taken shape and how the whole Arab-Israeli issue has developed since it's inception. Indeed, references ...

City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa

8 reviews
Adam LeBor

W. W. Norton, 2007

Two thumbs up
City of Oranges is a refreshingly balanced account of the modern history of Jaffa and the birth of the Jewish state. LeBor's eye for detail and the rich family accounts bring the story to life, turning a historical account into a thoroughly enjoyable read. Reading about the lives of the six families and their truly amazing experiences manages to personalize the Isreali-Palestinian conflict. ...

The Key to Zion (Zion Chronicles)

11 reviews
Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene

Tyndale House, 2006

Great book!
I read this series when I was in the seventh or eight grade. I found this to be a REALLY good series. It has a little bit of everything to make it a truely captivating book. It has historical facts in it, along with some of the Jewish language, romance, and lots of adventure! While I was reading this series, my father and I would sit around and discuss the books at night. I definatly ...

The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege

12 reviews
Kenneth Levin

Smith & Kraus, 2005

A Unique History of the Delusions of an Oppressed People
Why would the Israelis and the Jews sacrifice everything for a shallow peace accord with a "peace partner" who increases terror attacks, indoctrinates intensely virulent anti-Semitism at all levels of education and the media, and continues to vow annihilation of the state they feign to be negotiating peace with? Kenneth Levin's answer approaches a perspective that is different from much of the ...

Arab Voices Speak to American Hearts

15 reviews
Samar Dahmash-Jarrah

Olive Branch Books, 2005

A Comprehensive Analysis
Having worked with Arab and Arab Americans it seems that Samar through her interviews has portrayed the most realistic representation of Arab opinions I have seen from an American author. The diveristy of Arab perspectives, and the commonalities of American and Arab feelings have been very well covered. The idea of dialogue for understanding is so simple yet we still rely on our public leaders to ...

Adjusting Sights

12 reviews
Haim Sabato, Hillel Halkin

Toby Press, 2003

Poetic, Transcending, Supernal Novel of War and Spirit
I picked this book up in the Tel Aviv airport and read it from cover to cover on the plane ride back to New York. The author presents a personal, gripping account of tank warfare on the Golan in the 1973 Yom Kippur War suffused with spiritual and philosophical radiance. Very spiritual, very deep...a wonderful extraordinary and transforming read.

Israeli and Palestinian Voices: A Dialogue with Both Sides

6 reviews
Cathy Sultan

Scarletta Press, 2006

Must read for all americans
A must read book for this excellent new author. Totally an eye opener on how people in other countries live in fear every day of their lives and this war has been going on for years. Myself being naive about how palestinians are treated and how their lives are so different from our own secure world. Americans are so engrossed in their busy lives and we hear very little of what goes on there. ...

Atlas of the Arab Israeli Conflict (Routledge Historical Atlases)

6 reviews
Martin Gilbert

Routledge, 2008

Incredible Resource About the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Arab-Israeli conflict is a fiercely debated topic with numerous accusations constantly being thrown back and forth. For someone just beginning to study the Arab-Israeli conflict, it can be overwhelming. This book is a collection of maps drafted by a professional cartographer to show the real dimensions of treaties, ceasefires, boycotts, and other historical moments in the Arab-Israeli ...

The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years

6 reviews
Norman G. Finkelstein

University of Minnesota Press, 1996

Jewish but not Zionist
As a Jewish woman living in the U.S. it was difficult for me to hear but one side of the story in the Israeli-Arab conflict. That side was the Zionist perspective. It wasn't until I spent time in Israel (ironic as this is) that I began to understand the fallacies in the arguments I grew up hearing. I read this book after picking it up at a friend's house, and now I'm feeling brave enough to buy ...

POLITICS OF DISPOSSESSION, THE: The Struggle for Palestinian Self- Determination, 1969-1994

7 reviews
Edward W. Said

Pantheon, 1994

Possession
It is remarkable how relevant these essays seem still, even as they lead up to the era of the Oslo process, in the frozen present since 1967, or 1948. Sorting out the myths of the Arab-Israeli conflict can be a full-time job, and that's the problem. Said's witnessing of the issues since 1967 has always been one component of the unfolding tragedy. The Arab-Israeli conflict sometimes seems in a ...

Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

7 reviews
Saree Makdisi

W. W. Norton, 2008

True Evil
When reading this book you will stare into the face of an evil so disturbing it is not recognizable as human. The sheer hatred and malice of official Israeli government policy toward the indigenous people of Palestine exists on a scale not even duplicated in Nazi Germany. People in the west only think they know what racism, belief in racial superiority and ethnic cleansing/genocide is. These ...

Struggle for the Holy Land: Arabs, Jews and the Emergence of Israel

8 reviews
William Hare

Madison Books, 1996

Important, Educational and Emotionally Involving
Giving this book a 5-star rating isn't enough; I haven't been this affected-- intellectually and emotionally-- by anything I've read in a very long time, so I wish there were some way to reflect the significant difference between an "A" and an "A+," which is what "Struggle for the Holy Land (Arabs, Jews and the Emergence of Israel)," by William Hare, deserves. First published in 1995, this book ...

View from the Eye of the Storm, A

8 reviews

HarperCollins e-books, 2007

A Gem of a book, deep, compelling, intelligent, fascinating
Haim Harari is a great internationally known theoretical physicist. He was the director of the Weizmann Institute from 1988 to 2001 and received important honors as a leading scientist, including the prestigious Harnack Medal, awarded by the Senate of the Max Planck Society in an unanimous decision. But this book is not about Physics, its about terror and reason in the Middle East. In my ...

The Forgotten Millions: The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands

6 reviews
Malka Hillel Shulewitz

Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001

How the Modern Arab World Became Judenrein: Implications
In ?Jews and Arabs? (New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975), the author Albert Memmi, a Sephardic Jew, observed the following: ? ..The head of an Arab state recently made us a generous and novel offer. ?Return,? he told us, ?return to the land of your birth! Are you not Arabs like us- Arab Jews??. What lovely words! We draw a secret nostalgia from them: yes, indeed we were Arab Jews- in our ...

Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers (Perspectives)

6 reviews
Mohammed M. Hafez

United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006

An insightful and chilling study of the Palestinian suicide bombers during the Al-Aqsa intifada
Knowledgeably written by Mohammed M. Hafez (Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri, Kansas City) Manufacturing Human Bombs: The Making Of Palestinian Suicide Bombers is an insightful and chilling study of the Palestinian suicide bombers during the Al-Aqsa intifada that began in the year 2000 and continues to be a primary weapon among Islamic ...

Secret Channels: The Inside Story of Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiations

8 reviews
Mohamed Heikal

Harpercollins Pub Ltd, 1997

Brilliant analytical rendition on how Palestine was sold out
Mohammed Heikal is the type of journalist whose inner circle of friends includes emperors, kings and heads of states, in addition to lessor, yet very powerful global figures. With a powerful analytical mind, a penetrating insight and, a fluent pen, Mohamed Heikal draws on his years of deep, deep connections with the most influential to focus our attention on how Palestine was ignominiously ...

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