Israel category: 987 books
Doomed to Succeed
The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A necessary and unprecedented account of America's changing relationship with Israel
When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close—so close that...
Israel and the Cold War
Diplomacy, Strategy and the Policy of the Periphery at the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
In the wake of its creation in 1948, the state of Israel was confronted with the challenge of establishing foreign relations with key players in the region, in the face of opposition from most of the Arab states. Howard Patten explores the genesis and development of Israel's foreign relations with...
No End of Conflict
Rethinking Israel-Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Yossi Alpher, a veteran of peace process research and dialogue, explains how Israel got into its current situation of growing international isolation, political stalemate, and gathering messianic political influence. He investigates the inability of Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and end...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Benny Morris is the founding father of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have challenged long-established perceptions about the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their research rigorously documented crimes and atrocities committed by the Israeli armed forces, including...
by Brandy Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This Israel tour book is rich in historic, geographic and bible facts to be used as an essential guide while touring the holy land of Israel or as a study guide. Take this Israel tour guide book with you while in Israel as a virtual bible study guide of the promised land. Use it as a study guide book from afar to help build a deeper understanding of the land of Israel.
by Natan Aridan
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book focuses on the bilateral and multilateral relations between Britain, the 'former proprietor' and Israel, the 'successor state', during the period following their armed clash in January 1949, to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza and the Sinai in March 1957. It highlights the formulation of...
If a Place Can Make You Cry
Dispatches from an Anxious State
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2002
In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, during which time Daniel would be a Fellow at the Mandel Institute in Jerusalem. This was a euphoric time in Israel. The economy was booming, and peace seemed virtually guaranteed....
Spies Against Armageddon -- Inside Israel's Secret Wars
Updated & Revised
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Shedding light on tumultuous events in Syria, Iran, and the entire Middle East, SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON: INSIDE ISRAEL'S SECRET WARS covers more ground than any other book about modern-day Israel. Its 25 action-packed chapters and detailed endnotes are filled with colorful characters, who risk their...
The Other Side of Israel
My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 2003, Susan Nathan moved from her comfortable home in Tel Aviv to Tamra, an Arab town in the northern part of Israel. Nathan had arrived in Israel four years earlier and had taught English and worked with various progressive social organizations. Her desire to help build a just and humane society...
The Israel Test
Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In this book, George Gilder asserts that widespread antagonism toward the current state of Israel springs from, like anti-Semitism everywhere, envy of superior accomplishment. Israel’s sudden rise as a world capitalist and technological power, he argues, stems in part from the Jewish "culture of...
by Mitchell G. Bard, Moshe Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Hardly a day passes when Israel is not in the news. Virtually all the press coverage, however, is about the conflict between Israel and her neighbors. There is so much more to Israel that is positive and should be better known. This book provides essential facts about not only the political events...
The Ghost Warriors
Inside Israel's Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The untold story of the Ya’mas, Israel's special forces undercover team that infiltrated Palestinian terrorist strongholds during the Second Intifada.
It was the deadliest terror campaign ever mounted against a nation in modern times: the al-Aqsa, or Second, Intifada. This is the untold story...
In Search of Israel
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be
Many Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the...
The Rise of Israel
A History of a Revolutionary State
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
The state of Israel is one of the most controversial countries in the world. Yet, its unique creation and rise to power in 1948 has not been adequately explained either by its friends (mainstream Zionists) nor by its detractors (Arabists and post-Zionists).
Using a variety of comparative methodologies;...