Israel category: 987 books
Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume Two
A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Opium Traders-Volume Two continues the history of opium commerce at a point where the Sassoons of Persia, closely connected with the Rothchilds, won control of the trade. The Sassoons celebrated when the monopoly of the British East India Company was repealed; they used their business expertise and...
by Jon Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Who cares about the Palestinian Arabs? The past century in Palestinian Arab history has certainly not been a walk in the park. This book will examine how the Palestinian Arabs have been influenced by the events of the past 130 years.What did the massive Jewish immigration of the 1880s mean...
The Israeli Palestinians
An Arab Minority in the Jewish State
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
One of the most crucial issues to affect national policy in the state of Israel is that of relations between its Jewish and Arab citizens. This edited collection offers a comprehensive analysis of the most significant factors to have contributed to current conditions.
by Francis A. Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
A leading US expert applies the norms and standards of international law to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, addressing Palestinian statehood, the negotiation and failure of the Oslo Accords, the status of Jerusalem, the Al Aqsa Intifada, the right of return, human rights violations, war crimes, crimes...
Palestinian Village Histories
Geographies of the Displaced
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since carried...
Dreams Deferred
A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Dreams Deferred arrives as debates about the future of the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensify under the extraordinary pressure of a region in chaos. The book empowers readers to be informed participants in conversations and debates about developments that increasingly touch...
Quakers in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The Israeli Palestinian conflict has resulted in the longest-standing refugee crisis in the world today. Based on new archival research and interviews with surviving participants, this book considers one early effort to resolve that crisis while offering helpful lessons for current efforts at conflict...
Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Confrontation and Co-existence
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book addresses the major generators of conflict and toleration at shared holy places in Palestine and Israel. Examining the religious, political and legal issues, the authors show how the holy sites have been a focus of both conflict and cooperation between different communities.
Bringing...
by Aida Essaid
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
A fundamental aspect of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis is the territorial dispute which began long before the State of Israel was established. Analysing the land tenure system in Palestine under the administration of the British Mandate, this book questions whether, and to what extent,...
The Bells of Memory
A Palestinian Boyhood in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
The distinguished Arabic scholar, author, and translator Issa J. Boullata grew up in a Palestinian family in the Jerusalem of the 1930s and 1940s, when Palestine was under the British Mandate. His memoir, The Bells of Memory, is delightful in its reflections on an idyllic youth and detailed in its...
by Major Jean-Marc Pierre
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The 1956 Suez Crisis is the first example of a pre-emptive strike after World War II. The episode provides lessons about the lengths to which nations will go to secure their interests and the limits of the United Nation’s influence. How the UN uses its power is the point of contention. In 1956,...
Against Apartheid
The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Features essays by Palestinian scholars on the front lines of Occupation
Includes essays by BDS co-founders Omar Barghouti and Lisa Taraki and Israeli scholar and BDS advocate Ilan Pappe
Includes contributions by scholars under attack for criticizing Israel, including Steven Salaita...
by Refaat Alareer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
During Israel’s lengthy 2014 assault on Gaza, voices worldwide rose in stunned protest. Using numerous creative means, Palestinians and their allies bore witness to the Israeli attacks-and to the siege that has strangled Gaza ever since. Gaza Unsilenced foregrounds the words and images with which...
Jews and Muslims in the Arab World
Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics. Whether real or imagined, the past filtered through their collective...