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Bible and sword; England and Palestine from the bronze age to Balfour
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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today. "Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer, a ...
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Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
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Norman Finkelstein
In this long-awaited sequel to Norman Finkelstein's bestselling "The Holocaust Industry" - Finkelstein lays into the human rights record of Israel and attacks Alan Dershowitz for poor scholarship. In "Beyond Chutzpah", Norman Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched expose of the ...
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Arabs & Israel for Beginners
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Ron David, Susan David (Illustrator)
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is in the headlines daily, but do most Americans really understand what it is about? With dramatic events happening almost every day in this region, and the US government increasingly becoming involved, the American public deserves to hear both sides. "Arabs & Israel For Beginners "provides an intelligent, in-depth ...
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As America Has Done to Israel
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John P McTernan
As America Has Done to Israel is a comprehensive survey of American and Israeli history, showing how America's support of Israel has led to blessings in line with the promise of Genesis 12: 2??????3: "I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will ...
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The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader
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Arthur Hertzberg (Editor)
A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zionist Idea is an anthology of writings by the leading thinkers of the Zionist movement, including Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha-Am, Martin Buber, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Judah Magnes, Max Nordau, Mordecai Kaplan, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Weizmann, and David Ben-Gurion.
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The Case for Israel
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Professor Alan M Dershowitz
The celebrated Alan Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard, writes a passionate brief in defense of Israel, seeking to reclaim legitimacy for the Jewish state and its right to defend its borders. In the process, he tries to sort out the thorny differences between legitimate criticism and anti-Semitism.
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Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy
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Shlomo Ben-Ami
An Oxford-trained historian who became Israeli Foreign Minister, Shlomo Ben-Ami was a key figure in the Camp David negotiations and many other peace talks. He offers here an unflinching account of the Arab-Israeli conflict, informed by his firsthand knowledge.
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The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism
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Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years
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Israel Shahak, Gore Vidal (Foreword by)
This book is part of Pluto's 21st birthday series "Get Political", which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. Israel Shahak is a remarkable man. Born in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of Belsen, Shahak arrived in Israel in 1945. Brought up under Jewish Orthodoxy and Hebrew culture, he has consistently ...
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Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft
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Michael Makovsky
This book is the first to explore fully the role that Zionism played in the political thought of Winston Churchill. Michael Makovsky traces the development of Churchill's positions toward Zionism from the period leading up to the First World War through his final years as prime minister in the 1950s. Setting Churchill's attitudes toward Zionism ...
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History of Zionism
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Walter Laqueur
Discusses the European background, the prehistory of the movement, five decades of Zionist activities, and ends with the establishement of the state of Israel.
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Standing with Israel: Why Christians Support Israel
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David Brog
Based on theological and historical research, Brog makes persuasive appeals to Christians to embrace Israel and to Jews to overcome their fears of Christian Zionists.
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Personal Witness: Israel Through My Eyes
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Mr. Abba Eban
The comapnion volume to the brilliant new five-part PBS series. From a distinguished statesman, diplomat, scholar, and bestselling author comes an intimate portrait of the Israeli history he both witnessed and helped to forge. 16 pages of black-and-white photos.
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The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East
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David Hirst
More than a decade before Israel's New Historians revolutionized the study of Israeli history, English journalist David Hirst wrote The Gun and the Olive Branch, a classic, myth-breaking general history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hirst, former Middle East correspondent of the Guardian, traces the origins of the terrible conflict back to ...
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Question of Palestine
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Professor Edward W Said
Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most recent developments in the Middle East- from the intifada to the Gulf war to the historic peace conference in Madrid.
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History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression
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David Meir-Levi
Forty years ago, a significant part of the political, religious, intellectual, and terrorist leadership of the Arab world declared an all-out war against the documented history of the Middle East and America's role in the Muslim world. Arab PR professionals and spinmeisters have rewritten the record for political and propaganda purposes. "Blaming ...
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The Jewish Writings
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Professor Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn (Editor), Ron H Feldman (Editor)
Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. When she was in her mid-twenties and still living in Germany, Arendt wrote about the history of German Jews as a people living in a land that was not their own. In 1933, at the age of twenty-six, she fled to France, ...
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The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul
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Yoram Hazony
Historian Hazony looks back at Zionism and its dreams and goals, and at the struggle to make a Jewish homeland a reality, and finds that contemporary Israeli leaders seem strangely uncomfortable with the very idea of a Jewish state.
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The Tragedy of Zionism: How Its Revolutionary Past Haunts Israeli Democracy
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Bernard Avishai
The subject of intense controversy when it was first published in 1985, The Tragedy of Zionism provides illuminating insight into the history behind the headlines. Now revised with a new prologue and epilogue, this ground breaking book is republished at a time when Middle Eastern turbulence, Israeli-Palestinian relations, religious extremism, and ...
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Fast Facts on the Middle East Conflict
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Randall Price, PH.D.
The conflict in the Middle East raises many questions for Americans, Christians, and the world community. Randall Price, a bestselling author and expert in Middle Eastern studies, provides concise answers to those questions. In a practical Q-and-A format with maps, charts, and sidebars, this book unveils a fascinating timeline of the conflict ...
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Jews and Power
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Ruth R Wisse
It is Wisses bracing theory that the Jewish people have been corrupted--not by power but by powerlessness. She argues that in displaying the resilience necessary to survive in exile, the Jews left too much to God thereby increasing their vulnerability to scapegoating and violence.
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The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State
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Zeev Sternhell
Zeev Sternhell advances a radically new interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. This is a controversial and timely book, which provides a useful historical background to Israel's ongoing struggle over nationhood.
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The Jewish State
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Theodor Herzl
Theodore Herzl, the founding father of Zionism, presents his vision of a Jewish homeland. Originally published in 1896.
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Aaronsohn's Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East
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Ms. Patricia Goldstone
Scientist, diplomat, and spy, Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jews, as revealed in this new biography by the author of "Making the World Safe for Tourism."
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The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do about It
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Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D.
In this intensely passionate and compelling book, the best-selling feminist and Jewish writer Phyllis Chesler demonstrates how old-fashioned anti-Semitism has become newly fashionable, even politically correct, and how this plague threatens the Jews of the world, America, and Western civilization. A dangerous, worldwide coalition of Islamic ...
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