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Arab-Israeli conflict Arab-Israeli conflict 1993- Peace Israel Israel Politics and government Israel Politics and government 1993- Middle East Foreign relations United States Palestinian Arabs Ethnic identity Palestinian Arabs Politics and government 1993- Prime ministers Israel Biography United States Foreign relations Middle EastShavit, Ari
Summary: "Drawing on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family's story, My Promised Land is a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and profound historical dimensions. As Ar Shavit examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, he asks difficult but important questions: why did Israel come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 SHADanon, Danny.
Summary: Outlines a plan for Israel's future, arguing against any acquiescence to U.S. foreign policy and discussing such topics as the "two state/one state" stalemate, nationalism, and the potential for severing the bond between Israel and the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.053 DANDerfner, Larry
Summary: No Country for Jewish Liberals is Larry Derfner’s personal and political story of life in contemporary Israel, describing how an American Jewish emigrant and his adopted country grew apart. Taking readers from his boyhood in Los Angeles as the son of Holocaust escapees, through his coming of age amidst the upheavals of 1960s America, to his move to Israel and controversial career in journalism,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Just World Books, an imprint of Just World Publishing, LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DERCarter, Jimmy
Summary: Believing the lack of permanent Middle Eastern peace is a persistent threat to global peace, President Carter suggests two stumbling blocks to lasting harmony in this region. One is Israel refuses to honor previous peace commitments. Secondly, Arab countries refuse to acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a nation. Carter places the lion's share of the blame for this impasse on Israel and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.04 CARMiller, Aaron David.
Summary: For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with for more than half a century. Why has the world's greatest superpower failed to broker, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 MILCarter, Jimmy
Summary: President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land, most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2005 and 2006. In this book President Carter shares...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 CARO'Malley, Padraig
Summary: Arguing that a two-state solution is no longer a viable path to lasting peace, a controversial assessment of the Israeli-Palestine conflict addresses key issues while outlining a framework for action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 OMAGrossman, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 GRORoss, Dennis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.053 ROSMakdisi, Saree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.95 MAKSharon, Gilad.
Summary: Written by his youngest son, a portrait of the former Israeli prime minister draws from diaries, day books, military directives, and correspondence to trace his evolution into one of the world's most powerful and influential figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHARON, ARIEL SHABergman, Ronen
Summary: Presents an assessment of Israel's state-sponsored assassination programs that evaluates the protective beliefs that are instituted into every Israeli citizen, the role of assassination in the state's history, and the ethical challenges of Israel's policies on targeted killings. "The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF's targeted killing programs, from the man hailed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.9 BERPeres, Shimon
Summary: A portrait of Israel's first prime minister covers his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople, and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nextbook/Schocken 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 BEN-GURION, DAVID PERRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: Do recent changes in the Middle East signal peace? One Arab country after another is signing historic, game-changing peace, trade, investment, and tourism deals with Israel. At the same time, Russia, Iran, and Turkey are forming a highly dangerous alliance that could threaten the Western powers. Meanwhile, the U.S. is drawing down its military forces in the Mideast and focusing on matters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.0917 ROSKaspit, Ben
Summary: "Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office. Caspit covers a wide swath of topics, including Netanyahu's policies, his political struggles, and his fight against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NETANYAHU, BENJAMIN KASNetanyahu, Binyamin
Summary: "From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel's independence and raised in a family with a prominent Zionist history, they understood that the Jewish state was a hard-won and still precarious gift. All three studied in American high schools--where they learned to appreciate the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NETANYAHU, BINYAMIN NETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NETANYAHU NETPfeffer, Anshel
Summary: A deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel--its history, present, and future--without first understanding the life and worldview of the man who leads it Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all of his own making, and may soon be ousted from the office he has held longer than any prior Israeli Prime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2018
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Summary: From Israel's leading historian, a sweeping history of 1967--the war, what led up to it, what came after, and how it changed everything. Journalist Segev recounts the watershed year when six days of war reshaped the country and the entire region. Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates the crisis in Israel before 1967, showing how economic recession, a full grasp of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.046 SEGSummary: Jewish people celebrate Jewish New Year at Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Blum, Howard
Summary: Chronicles the exploration by Larry Williams and Bob Cornuke to find the biblical mountain where Moses recieved the Ten Commandments after the flight of the Jews from Egyptian enslavement. With bible in hand the explorers find Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia, at a peak now known as Jabal al Lawz, which in the late 1970s became part of a top-secret military installation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 BLUHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how one-sided pro-Israel policies reflect the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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Summary: One of America's leading attorneys offers an impassioned defense of the state of Israel, arguing that, although the country is not perfect, it remains the only outpost of democracy in the Middle East, answering critics who accuse Israel of being an imperialist power and documenting the facts about the nature of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DERGoodman, Hirsh.
Summary: Examines the status of the Israeli nation in the world today, maintaining that its own internal political and social problems combined with its involvement in the West Bank and Gaza have only complicated its long-term struggle for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 GOOThrall, Nathan
Summary: "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 is chaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023