Israel category: 987 books
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel
In the Shadow of the Hawk
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel seeks to reconstruct and elucidate the processes behind the decisions made by the Johnson Administration during the years 1965-68 to sell Israel M-48 tanks, A-4 Skyhawk planes and F-4 Phantom planes. This examination is based on a distinction between three factions which competed for influe
Embracing Israel/Palestine
A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
A major modern conundrum is how the Arab/Israel conflict remains unresolved and, seemingly, unresolvable. In this inspirational book, Rabbi Michael Lerner suggests that a change in consciousness is crucial. With clarity and honesty, he examines how the mutual demonization and discounting of each...
The Process
1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
"Meet your Enemy Number One," a nervous Norwegian diplomat said to Uri Savir, the young director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, as he introduced him to Abu Ala, one of Yasser Arafat's top aides. They were in Oslo, and this was the first official encounter between Israel and the PLO....
A Death in Jerusalem
The Assassination by Jewish Extremists of the First Arab/Israeli
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
On the evening of September 17, 1948, a car carrying Count Folke Bernadotte, the first United Nations–appointed mediator in the Middle East, traveled up a narrow Jerusalem street. As the car shifted gears for the climb toward the New City, an Israeli Army jeep nosed into the road, forcing Bernadotte’s...
The Battle for Eretz Yisrael
Jews, G-D and Israel, 1992–2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
From the sweet taste of victory to shattering betrayal, The Battle for Eretz Yisrael documents the years from 1992 to 2011 as Israel attempts to gain its identity.
Rendering the full impact of the Israeli struggle, this analysis contains a collection of articles, political cartoons, maps, mementos,...
The Secret War Against the Jews
How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A hugely controversial work that exposes a series of scandals from Oliver North to the British royal family, The Secret War Against the Jews reveals as much about political corruption inside Western intelligence as it does about Israel. Using thousands of previously top-secret documents and interviews...
The Case for Peace
How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine–and explains how to move around them and push the process forward. From the division of Jerusalem and Israeli counterterrorism measures to the security fence and the Iranian nuclear threat,...
Bibi
The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel--its history, present, and future--without first understanding the life and worldview of the man who leads it
Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all of his...
Lords of the Land
The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
The 1967 Arab-Israeli War was a devastating triumph for Israel, which immediately began to establish settlements in the newly conquered territories. Those settlements, and the movement that made them possible, have utterly transformed Israel, and yet until now the full history of the occupation has...
Israel/Palestine
How to End the War of 1948
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel’s new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United States–brokered accords and...
Anonymous Soldiers
The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Winner of the Washington Institute Book Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year
St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Kirkus Reviews
In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial...
by Norman G. Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This acclaimed study surveys the dominant popular and scholarly images of the Israel–Palestine conflict. Finkelstein opens with a theoretical discussion of Zionism, locating it as a romantic form of nationalism that assumed the bankruptcy of liberal democracy. He goes on to look at the demographic...
A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine
An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
In 2003, after two years of negotiations, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed a model peace treaty. The document, popularly called the Geneva Initiative, contained detailed provisions resolving all outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinian people, including drawing a...
by Ilan Pappe
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The myths—and reality—behind the state of Israel
In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of...