Raphael Israeli: 16 books
by Raphael Israeli
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Hatred, Lies, and Violence in the World of Islam examines the torrential flood of anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish, and anti-Zionist propaganda that permeates many Muslim societies. Raphael Israeli locates the source of this anti-Semitic sentiment in the inadequacies and insecurities of Muslim states. By...
The Oslo Idea
The Euphoria of Failure
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The idea of peace is always enchanting, for it encompasses the tranquility and serenity for which every human yearns. The nation of Israel has never known peace, but it dreams of peace. In practice Israel navigates between the poles of war and peace, with endless middle-of the-road situations like...
Years of Upheaval
Axial Changes in Islam Since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Years of Upheaval discusses 'Axial periods' in history; years that witnessed such fundamental reversals in history as to make the world turn upside down and inaugurate a new era. Raphael Israeli sees the post-1989 period as such a period in Islam. He explores events in the Islamic world since the...
by Raphael Israeli
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The world is watching with uncertainity as the "Arab Spring" unfolds. Optimistically named by international media sources, the term "Arab Spring" associates the unrest with ideas of renewal, revival, and democratic thought and deed. Many hoped the overthrow of authoritarian leaders...
Islamikaze
Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Raphael Israeli's overview of Islamic martyrology focuses upon the situation that has developed worldwide since the World Trade Centre was destroyed. His thesis is that a sea-change has occurred in international terrorism that supersedes all other perspectives.
Islam in China
Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
'Are they really Muslims?' Islam in China reveals the struggle for identity of the small yet vital Muslim community of China, a little studied minority on the fringes of the Islamic world now thrust into the spotlight by the opening of China to the world and the rise of independent Muslim republics...
Blood Libel and Its Derivatives
The Scourge of Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
At the doorstep of the twenty-first century, one would expect that medieval concepts such as blood libel—the accusation that Jews kill children to use their blood in religious ritual—would have been discarded by any civilized human being. Certainly in the Christian world, where the story originated...
Muslim Minorities in Modern States
The Challenge of Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Political leaders of the 1930s may be accused of blindness to danger in their failed attempts to appease totalitarian aggression, but no one doubts they believed they were doing so to preserve their way of life. In contrast, Raphael Israeli suggests that twenty-first century appeasement of Islamists,...
by Raphael Israeli
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Since the World Trade Center attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, Europe has been plagued by Islamist attacks that have taken many lives and disrupted many services. Considerable attention has been paid to radical Islamist attacks on the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, but far less focus...
Old Historians, New Historians, No Historians
The Derailed Debate on the Genesis of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This polemical volume tackles the thorny and controversial issue of the vastly different narratives told (or manufactured) by the two parties of the conflict in the Middle East (the Arabs and Israel), focusing on 1948, where it all started. While all sides in this debate have vested interests, this...
The Internationalization of ISIS
The Muslim State in Iraq and Syria
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
An Islamic terrorist movement, ISIS (also dubbed IS or ISIL), has taken advantage of the chaotic "Arab Spring" in Syria and Iraq to declare an Islamic Caliphate wherever it has been able to rise to power. This movement is continuously attempting to extend the territory of its rule. The Egyptian...
by Raphael Israeli
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
A collection of articles about the fateful issues of war and peace in the Middle East, especially the evasive brands of war - terrorism and incitement.
Horrific words of incitement, followed by atrocious acts of terror, have occurred during the past few years. These have significantly eroded hope...
Jerusalem Divided
The Armistice Regime, 1947-1967
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Traces the background to the history of the Armistice Regime, established in 1947 to combat the fighting between Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem. The author details the Armistice Commission, which governed its application and the many in-built problems that thwarted their proper functioning.
Green Crescent Over Nazareth
The Displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This is the story of the cultural and political struggle between Christians and Muslims, and of the rapid Islamicization of Nazareth - the birthplace of Christianity - ironically, under the rule of the Jewish State of Israel.
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