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The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: by D. Waxman

The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: by D. Waxman

By D. Waxman

This publication bargains a theoretically-informed research of how during which Israeli nationwide id has formed Israel's overseas coverage. through linking family identification politics to Israeli international coverage, it finds how a trouble of Israeli id infected the talk in Israel over the Oslo peace approach.

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Palestine Twilight. The Murder of Dr Glock and the by Edward Fox

Palestine Twilight. The Murder of Dr Glock and the by Edward Fox

By Edward Fox

Please observe that this version doesn't comprise illustrations.

Part travelogue, half true-thriller, Edward Fox's brilliantly unique publication investigates the homicide of a US archaeologist at the West financial institution in 1992 and opens up the Palestinian international he served -- a dead night within the backyard of fine and Evil of Palestine and the West Bank.

On 19 January 1992, Dr Albert Glock -- US citizen, archaeologist and Director of Archaeology at Bir Zeit college within the Israeli-occupied West financial institution, was once murdered through an murderer. bullets to the center. The witness statements have been harassed, the post-mortem insufficient. The police took 3 hours to reach on the scene, from their HQ ten mins away.

Who killed Albert Glock? The Palestinians blamed the Israelis, the Israelis blamed an inter-departmental feud on the collage, or severe Palestinian teams. yet these as regards to Bir Zeit, to the political state of affairs at the West financial institution, had an easy line...

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Philosophical perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian by Tomis Kapitan

Philosophical perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian by Tomis Kapitan

By Tomis Kapitan

This quantity addresses a few philosophical difficulties that come up in attention of the century-old clash among Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. including essays via fifteen members (including either Israeli and Palestinian philosophers) and a long creation through the editor, it bargains with rights to land, sovereignity, self-determination, the lifestyles and legitimacy of states, cultural prejudice, nationwide identification, intercommunal violence, and spiritual intransigence.

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Conflict and Reconciliation in the Contemporary World by David J. Whittaker

Conflict and Reconciliation in the Contemporary World by David J. Whittaker

By David J. Whittaker

Conflict and Reconciliation within the modern World supplies a concise, unique and multi-faceted advent to the examine of recent clash occasions. utilizing 8 case- reviews, from 4 continents: Yugoslavia, Israel, Northern eire, South Africa, El Salvador, Cambodia, Cyprus and Afghanistan, it comprises dialogue on:
* threatened neighborhood peace and security
* cycles of inner discord, inhabitants displacement and violence
* controversy over motives, growth and resolution
* the worth of exterior mediation, enforcement or intervention equivalent to sanctions or ''punishments''
* skill, timing and permanence of reconciliation

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The Arab Public Sphere in Israel: Media Space and Cultural by Amal Jamal

The Arab Public Sphere in Israel: Media Space and Cultural by Amal Jamal

By Amal Jamal

During this pathbreaking learn, Amal Jamal analyzes the intake of media by way of Arab voters of Israel as a kind of communicative habit and a sort of political motion. Drawing on large public opinion survey facts, he describes perceptions and use of media starting from Arabic Israeli newspapers to satellite tv for pc tv declares from through the center East. by means of partaking during this semi-autonomous Arab public sphere, the typical Arab citizen can connect to a wider Arab global past the bounds of the Israeli kingdom. Jamal exhibits how media reduction the community's skill to withstand the state's domination, defend its Palestinian nationwide id, and advertise its civic prestige.

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Washington’s Long War on Syria by Stephen Gowans

Washington’s Long War on Syria by Stephen Gowans

By Stephen Gowans

When President Barack Obama demanded officially in the summertime of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was once now not the 1st time Washington had sought regime swap in Damascus. the us had waged a protracted battle opposed to Syria from the very second the country’s fiercely self sufficient Arab nationalist movement—of which Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad have been devoted devotees—came to strength in 1963. Washington sought to purge Arab nationalist impression from the Syrian country and the Arab international extra extensively since it was once a probability to its schedule of building international primacy and selling business-friendly funding climates for US banks, traders and companies in the course of the global. Arab nationalists aspired to unify the world’s four hundred million Arabs right into a unmarried super-state in a position to difficult usa hegemony in West Asia and North Africa and changing into an immense participant at the global degree loose from the domination of the previous colonial powers and the united states. Washington had waged lengthy wars at the leaders of the Arab nationalist movement—Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Iraq’s Saddam, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, and Syria’s Assads, frequently allying with rather violent types of political Islam to undermine its Arab nationalist foes. by means of 2011, just one pan-Arabist nation remained within the region—Syria. In Washington’s lengthy struggle on Syria Stephen Gowans examines the decades-long fight among secular Arab nationalism, political Islam, and usa imperialism for regulate of Syria, the self-proclaimed Den of Arabism, and final secular pan-Arabist kingdom within the region.

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The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western Espionage by John Loftus

The Secret War Against The Jews: How Western Espionage by John Loftus

By John Loftus

A highly debatable paintings that exposes a chain of scandals from Oliver North to the British royal kinfolk, the key conflict opposed to the Jews finds as a lot approximately political corruption inside of Western intelligence because it does approximately Israel. utilizing hundreds of thousands of formerly top-secret records and interviews with thousands of present and previous spies, Loftus and Aarons, either veteran investigators, Nazi-hunters, and authors, current a compelling narrative.

The authors show that a variety of Western international locations, particularly the U.S. and nice Britain, have carried out repeated and willful spying missions on Palestine and later Israel over many many years. whereas at the floor those international locations and others profess to be ardent allies of Israel, they paintings, in truth, via their intelligence prone to betray Israel's secrets and techniques to the Arabs. Their intent: oil and multinational gains, which needs to be attained at any fee via foreign covert policies.

The festival of characters showing during this narrative is substantial and stunning. this isn't just a compelling paintings of heritage, but in addition a quantity whose grave allegations might be debated for future years.

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Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union by Sharon Pardo

Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union by Sharon Pardo

By Sharon Pardo

This ebook deals an research of the dynamics of Israeli-European kin and discusses major advancements in that dating from the past due Nineteen Fifties via to the current day. The emphasis is put on 5 large issues that handle various dimensions of the connection: 1) Israeli-E.U. relatives and the Israeli-Palestinian peace method; 2) Israeli-E.U. family members in a multilateral context; three) the bilateral nature of Israeli-E.U. relatives; four) Israeli (mis)perceptions of the E.U.; five) the way forward for Israeli-E.U. kin.

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