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Fortress Israel is an epic portrayal of Israel's martial culture-of Sparta presenting itself as Athens. From Israel's founding in 1948, we see a leadership class engaged in an intense ideological struggle over whether to become the "light unto nations," as envisioned by the early Zionists, or to embrace an ideology of state militarism with the objective of expanding borders and exploiting the weaknesses of the Arabs. In his first decade as prime minister,...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource
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English
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'Sustaining Conflict' develops a groundbreaking theory of political apathy, using a combination of ethnographic material, narrative, and political, cultural, and feminist theory. It examines how the status quo is maintained in Israel-Palestine, even by the activities of Jewish Israelis who are working against the occupation of Palestinian territories.
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"Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on hislast two terms in office. Caspit covers a wide swath of topics, including Netanyahu's policies, his political struggles, and his fight against the Iranian nuclear program, and zeroes in on Netanyahu's...
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English
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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...
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"From Israel's leading historian, a sweeping history of 1967--the war, what led up to it, what came after, and how it changed everything. Journalist Segev recounts the watershed year when six days of war reshaped the country and the entire region. Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates the crisis in Israel before 1967, showing how economic recession, a full grasp of the Holocaust's horrors, and the dire threats made by neighbor states...
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"After the 1967 war, the Jewish state seemed to have reached the pinnacle of success. But the Six-Day War proved to be the opening act of a complex political drama, in which the central issue became: Should Jews build settlements in the occupied territories taken in that war? Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive interviews, this is journalist Gorenberg's account of the strange birth of the settler movement, the child of both Labor Party...
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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The former president draws on his understanding of Middle East history and his personal relationships with regional leaders to share an assessment of what he believes is necessary to bring lasting peace to Israel while preserving Palestinian dignity.
12) Palestine
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Publisher
Fantagraphic Books
Pub. Date
c2001
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vi, 285 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
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English
13) My life
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1975
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480 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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English
14) Promises
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Arabic
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Follows the journey of a filmmaker who travels in and around Jerusalem, from a Palestinian refugee camp to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, where he meets seven Palestinian and Israeli children who exist in separate worlds, divided by physical, historical, and emotional boundaries although they live only 20 minutes apart. Explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of these children and tells the story of a few children who dared...
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Fantagraphic Books
Pub. Date
c2007
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xxi, 285 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
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English
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A graphic novel of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine. The Special Edition includes an introduction by the late Edward Said and a host of unique material never before published (including many of Sacco's original background notes, sketches, photographic reference, and much more). The book also includes a new, introductory interview with Sacco about the making of the book as well as a new cover and design.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2009
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5th St. Martin's Griffin ed., Updated for 2009.
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xxii, 704 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Gideon's Spies draws from classified documents, confidential sources, and closed-door interviews with Mossad agents, informants, and spymasters to reveal the organization's deepest secrets. This fifth edition is completely updated with new information, including the Mossad hospital raid that eventually uncovered sleeper cells in Britain, the assassination of the world's second most-wanted terrorist, the discovery of an unknown nuclear facility in...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
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First edition.
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xiii, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 25 cm
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English
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"A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,"--Amazon.com.
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