The general viewpoint of this book is that peace in the Middle East is impossible unless Israel and the Arab states can be integrated into a Socialist economic and political union.
Year: 1972
Paperback
Condition: Good (Some Wear)
Based on his reading of top-secret files of the Israeli police and the prime minister's office, Hillel Cohen exposes the full extent of the crucial, and, until now, willfully hidden history of Palestinian collaboration with Israelis—and of the Arab resistance...
Published by the Institute for Palestine Studies
Year: 1998
Hardcover
Condition: Good (Missing Dust Jacket)
When They Speak Israel is a guide for better understanding one's own and others' association with Israel. It is a guide written primarily for people who oppose racism and stand for human rights yet want to build relationships and conversations...
Israel is not the only 'new' state around, but it is one of the few states whose legitimacy is still questioned, and its future affects the future of the Middle East as a whole and probably the stability of the...
Year: 1993
Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Wildfire is a wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary study of the “other side” of Israeli public life. Because the governmental service systems work poorly, and political protest has proved to be largely ineffective, the Israeli public has begun to take matters into their...
Can two people exist under two different flags - when just the sight of those flags incites rage? What will it take? Jonathan Kuttab, a Palestinian Human Rights lawyer-and Christian pacifist-believes there is a way. In this moving, harrowing memoir,...
Reviewed in the Washington Report on Middle East AffairsMost Americans, if they know anything about Gaza at all, are aware only of its refugee camps, Hamas, rocket attacks, and frequent Israel Defense Forces (IDF) invasions. While Gaza is certainly no...
First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar’s A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Timewas regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relatively young country. More than 30 years...
A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author "A must for anyone who wants to understand the tectonic forces underlying Israeli politics."--Rabbi Robert Orkand, Reform Judaism "An eloquent expression of the...
One in every six Israeli citizens is a Palestinian Arab. While much has been written about the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza, the struggle for political rights by Palestinian citizens of Israel remains largely unexplored. Shany Payes offers...
How I Learned to Speak Israel is a guide for Americans wanting to better understand the Israel/Palestine situation. It is the author’s story of how he thought he knew about the situation and history only to learn that a lot...
Amidst the turmoil of the Middle East, few have noticed the extent to which Israel has slowly but surely been building alliances on the African continent. Facing a growing international backlash, Israel has had to look beyond its traditional Western...
As a critic of Zionism and as an opponent of Jewish exclusivity, Israel Shahak is special. He possesses in-depth knowledge of Israeli society, Jewish culture and the history of his people. His humanitarian concerns and commitments are extensive; his work...
In the late 1960s, Israel became more closely entwined with the United States not just as a strategic ally but also through its intensifying intimacy with American culture, society, and technology. Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets shows how transatlantic...
From Frank Sinatra's early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg's present-day peacemaking, Hollywood has long enjoyed a "special relationship" with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relationship, both on and off the screen. Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman...
An unflinching exposé of Israel's Lobby, showing how its outsized influence works against our national interests and threatens our freedom. The greatest story in geopolitics and in American domestic affairs is how the far-right government of a small Middle Eastern...
A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion. Omer Bartov was born in a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces...
Israel: When a Country Goes Rogue examines what happens when extensively documented allegations of grave wrongdoing meet an international system repeatedly unable to impose meaningful restraint. Drawing on court decisions, United Nations findings, human-rights reporting, official statements and other public...
In this timely book, historian Ilan Pappé argues that with the 2022 election of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the subsequent Israeli war on Gaza, political fractures inherent in the...
There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. The terrain is dense with ugly claims and counterclaims: one side is charged with Holocaust denial, the other with exploiting a tragedy while...
For this newly expanded edition, Avi Shlaim has added four chapters and an epilogue that address the prime ministerships from Barak to Netanyahu in the "one book everyone should read for a concise history of Israel's relations with Arabs" (Independent)....
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...
Examines the political and ideological links and dovetailing ethnonationalist projects of India and Israel Lucid and persuasive, Essa demonstrates that the India-Israel alliance spells significant consequences for democracy, the rule of law, and justice worldwide. Under Narendra Modi, India has...
Between 1994-2014, Israel’s security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world. This book is an investigation into this period and the conditions that created ‘Occupation Inc.’: the institution of a private...
Violence and war have raged between Zionists and Palestinians for over a century, ever since Zionists, trying to establish a nation-state in Palestine, were forced to confront the fact that the country was already populated. Covering every conflict in Israel’s...
This booklet is the first of a new series on "Strategic issues: Israeli perspectives" started by the Institute for Palestine Studies to inform Arabic readers about various Israeli perspectives on issues that are of critical importance to the Hebrew state...
The October War provides insiders’ views of the politics and diplomacy of events leading up to and following the October, or Yom Kippur, War of 1973 between Egypt and Syria on one hand and Israel on the other, a turning...
Year: 1999
Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Israel has made a unique contribution to the nuclear age. It has created a special "bargain" with the bomb. Israel is the only nuclear-armed state that does not acknowledge its possession of the bomb, even though its existence is a...
Challenging the established view that the civilian sector in Israel has been predominant over its security sector since the state's independence in 1948, this volume critically and systematically reexamines the relationship between these sectors and provides a deeper, more...
Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara is a revelatory examination of how Israel has skillfully employed propaganda to shape global perceptions, justify its policies, and maintain Western support despite its ongoing violations of international law and human...
"This book turned out to be an eye-opener, and a mine of information for all people who want to understand this important conflict. The supreme merit of this book is that it leaves its readers in no doubt as to...
A provocative argument for a new way of seeing Israel, Zionism, and the two-state solution. Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel is an urgent wake-up call. The philosopher Omri Boehm argues that it is long past time to...
Since Israel lacks strategic depth to counter the attacking armies, it relies on specific concepts in its security doctrine, including two major concepts: the reliance on self-initiative in the arms industry, and the patronage by a major power. Although the...
Any time that a politician or commentator compares the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to South Africa under apartheid, the response is swift denunciation. Yet many prominent, respected academics and politicians—including Jimmy Carter—have drawn such parallels, arguing that Israel’s treatment of its Arab-Israeli...
In The Accidental Empire, Gershom Gorenberg examines the strange birth of the settler movement in the ten years following the Six-Day War and finds that it was as much the child of Labor Party socialism as of religious extremism....
"Emmaia Gelman's gripping book sent chills down my spine. In meticulous detail, she documents how the Anti-Defamation League, in the name of combating hate, terror, and antisemitism, has defended Israeli policies of dispossession and ethnic cleansing, attacked the Left, assailed...
A longtime American foreign policy insider's penetrating and definitive reckoning with this country's involvement in the Middle East--and its bitter end The culmination of almost forty years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship, Grand Delusion is Steven...
Our American Israel tells the story of how a Jewish state in the Middle East came to resonate profoundly with a broad range of Americans in the twentieth century. Beginning with debates about Zionism after World War II, Israel’s identity...
An analysis of the Israeli arms trade with Latin America, based upon an exhaustive accumulation of material. Bahbah examines Israeli exports of military hardware within the context of the burgeoning worldwide arms industry and Israeli dependency upon U.S. protection and...
Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms...
According to common perception, the Federal Republic of Germany supported the formation of the Israeli state for moral reasons--to atone for its Nazi past--but did not play a significant role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. However, the historical record does not...
Cathy Sultan offers further insight into the disturbing and seemingly unsolvable situation in the Middle East. Israeli and Palestinian Voices: A dialogue with Both Sides is part adventure, part history, part travelogue, all bound together with a startling collection of...
This will be the definitive biography of Yasser Arafat for many years. --Rashid Khalidi Alan Hart has written the best informed, most detailed account of Arafat that I have seen. --Michael C. Hudson I have written the book as a...
By John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 484 pp. Get the book here! Reviewed by Paul Findley Abraham Lincoln ducked when religion surfaced during his successful campaign for Congress in 1846. Asked about a controversial...
By Laila El-Haddad & Maggie Schmitt, Just World Books, 2012, Paperback, 135 pp. Get the book here! Reviewed by Andrew Stimson Most Americans, if they know anything about Gaza at all, are aware only of its refugee camps, Hamas, rocket...
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