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1) The shortest history of Israel and Palestine: from Zionism to Intifadas and the struggle for peace
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2023.
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English
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"An accessible, balanced history for anyone who wants to understand how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century"--
"Newly updated, an accessible chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. The ongoing struggle between Israel and Palestine is one of the most bitter...
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2021.
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"A personal, spirited, and concise chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most fascinating countries in the world--Israel"-- While everyone seems to have a strong opinion about Israel, how many people actually know the facts? Tishby creates an accessible and dynamic portrait of a tiny country of outsized relevance. Through bite-sized chunks of history and deeply personal stories, she chronicles her homeland's...
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" Ari Shavit’s riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family’s story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come...
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2023.
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"Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene ischaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad's fate. It is every...
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Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2012
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IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Provides information about the Arab-Israeli conflict, including which leaders were involved, how the wars have affected the world, and why the wars have lasted for so long.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and...
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Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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''Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a powerful contribution to understanding Palestinian experience. Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This distinctive anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and struggle for liberation. Light in Gaza is...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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An expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict explains the century-long struggle in a digestible but thorough format, along with illustrations which help explain the history of the most complicated conflict in the world.
13) On Palestine
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Haymaker Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Papp©♭ and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss the road ahead for Palestinians and how the international community can pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses against...
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Choices, Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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A look at four Jewish Israelis who are working for peace and for the rights of Palestinian Arabs.
A documentary about Jewish peace activists who face skepticism and criticism from their fellow Israeli citizens. A Rabbi, a soldier, a grandmother, and an anarchist, four very different Israelis whom share a common goal: to achieve peace in the Middle East and end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Undeterred, they promote a peaceful...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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""[Kaufman] tells the story brilliantly. Anyone interested in the Middle East or military history will appreciate Kaufman's work." --Senator Joseph I. Lieberman "A stimulating and insightful...will no doubt find a permanent place on the Arab-Israeli bookshelf." --Michael Oren, New York Times bestselling author of Six Days of War October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The War was...
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A Future for Israel is a wake-up call to liberal Zionists. In the last two decades, Israeli politics have been changing rapidly, but Zionist thinking on the left is lagging dangerously behind. Given the demise of a viable two-state solution, the strugglefor a worthwhile political future in Israel depends not on establishing borders but on securing human and citizen rights. Denying this is by now akin to denying global warming and will lead to a catastrophe....
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