Israel category: 987 books
Turkey's Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan
State Identity and Security in the Middle East and Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
With the end of the Cold War came a new political instability in Turkey and a shift in relations with the West, leading the government to adopt new foreign policies and forge alliances with neighbouring states. This book offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the trilateral...
Ottoman Haifa
A History of Four Centuries under Turkish Rule
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Under Ottoman rule, the city of Haifa, located at the southern point of the largest bay on the coast of Israel, was transformed from a scarcely-inhabited fortress town to a major modern city. Today the city is the third-largest in Israel and has over 250,000 inhabitants.
This book details the...
Gaza
An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."—Noam Chomsky
"No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book."
—The Intercept
The...
by Clayton E. Swisher
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Documents from the classified papers leaked to Al-Jazeera in January give the clearest account yet of what really goes on in Middle East peace talks, including revealing off-the-record remarks made by Condoleezza Rice, Tony Blair, Mahmoud Abbas, and other key players
In January...
by Lt.-Col. Brian J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
On July 12, 2006, Israel went to war with Hezbollah in response to the killing and capture of Israeli soldiers along the southern Lebanese border. Believed at the time by many in the West to be an overreaction to a relatively minor border incident resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths in Lebanon,...
by Bodo Scholz
Language: German
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Nach dem viel zu frühen Tod meiner Frau – der Liebe meines Lebens – wollte ich eine lange Wanderung zu mir selbst unternehmen. Nach den Büchern von Shirley MacLaine und Hape Kerkeling ist der Jakobsweg zum Massentourismus mutiert. Massenveranstaltungen haben mich manchmal begeistert, oft auch...
La guerra de los Seis Días
La toma de Jerusalén por parte de Israel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la guerra de los Seis Días, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Comprender el contexto de la guerra de los Seis Días, tras tres grandes crisis en el conflicto...
International Legitimacy and the Politics of Security
The Strategic Deployment of Lawyers in the Israeli Military
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Delegitimation has become the new battleground for Israel and the critics of Israeli military operations. But the Israeli experience reveals a more general engagement where all states act strategically to build legitimacy for their policies and all resist attempts at delegitimation. To understand...
Television Drama in Israel
Identities in Post-TV Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Israeli television, currently celebrating fifty years of broadcasting, has become one of the most important content sources on the international TV drama market, when serials such as Homeland, Hostages, Fauda, Zaguory Empire and In Treatment were bought by international networks, HBO included. Offering...
Preventing Palestine
A Political History from Camp David to Oslo
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
On the fortieth anniversary of the Camp David Accords, a groundbreaking new history that shows how Egyptian-Israeli peace ensured lasting Palestinian statelessness
For seventy years Israel has existed as a state, and for forty years it has honored a peace treaty with Egypt that is widely viewed...
The Limits of the Land
How the Struggle for the West Bank Shaped the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Was Israel’s occupation of the West Bank inevitable? From 1949-1967, the West Bank was the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Many Israelis hoped to conquer it and widen their narrow borders, while many Arabs hoped that it would serve as the core of a future Palestinian state. In The Limits of...
Israel, Strategic Culture and the Conflict with Hamas
Adaptation and Military Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of ‘strategic culture’ on Israeli military operations against Hamas between 1987 and 2014.
It has often been argued that Israeli policies and military operations against Hamas have proven tactically effective, but strategically disastrous,...
Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws
The Mystery of Israel's Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Why is the Book of Revelation so misunderstood?
Wasn’t its whole point to give revelation? Well, in typically Jewish manner, yes and no.
The Book of Revelation was written as an apocalypse, a Jewish literary genre which also includes the extraordinary Books of Daniel and Zechariah....
Lesereise Israel/Palästina
Zwischen Abraham und Ibrahim
Language: German
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Das Begriffspaar Israel/Palästina kennt man hauptsächlich aus dem tragischen Teil der Nachrichten. Doch hinter den Namen, die Sinnbild für ewigen Konflikt geworden sind, steht ein wunderschönes, abenteuerreiches Land voller Menschen, die trotz einer schwierigen Realität ihre Herzlichkeit bewahrt...