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Arab-Israeli conflict 1973-1993 Arab-Israeli conflict 1993- Peace Israel Politics and government 1967-1993 Israel Politics and government 1993- Jerusalem Politics and government 21st century Fiction Middle East Foreign relations United States Middle East Foreign relations United States Fiction Palestinian Arabs Politics and government 1993- United States Foreign relations Middle East United States Foreign relations Middle East FictionKhalidi, Rashid.
Summary: Analyzes three historical moments from the past thirty-five years to reveal how the U.S. and Israel have worked together to prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.053 KHASimon, Steven
Summary: "A longtime American foreign policy insider's biting and definitive reckoning with the high cost of this country's ambitious meddling in the Middle East-and its bitter end The culmination of almost 40 years of expertise and insider policy access, Grand Delusion is Steven Simon's tour de force, offering a comprehensive yet analytical tour of U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Simon begins with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73056 SIMBlumenthal, Max
Summary: THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. Washington's secret funding of the Mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BLUBacevich, Andrew J
Summary: A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 BACCarter, 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 CARGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. More than two years have passed since his inauguration, and the reality of President Obama's approach is in stark contrast to the ebullient and optimistic image that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GERGalbraith, Peter (Peter W.)
Summary: Following his New York Times bestseller The End of Iraq, Peter W. Galbraith describes the storm the next president will inherit in the Middle East as a result of President George W. Bush's failed Iraq policies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 GALBennis, Phyllis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 BENCarter, 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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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 MILRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "Marcus Ryker has spent his entire career studying killers. One thing he knows for sure: a peace summit is the ultimate stage for an assassination. President Andrew Clarke is determined to announce his historic peace plan from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But when senior American officials who support the plan begin violently dying, Clarke orders Ryker and his team of CIA operatives to hunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROSIgnatius, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGNGerolymatos, André.
Summary: Provides an account of the history of covert operations in the Middle East, looking at how the United States and other Western powers have tried to establish control over the region's resources and commerce, while at the same time working to prevent the spread of communism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1241 GERIndyk, Martin
Summary: "A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arabneighbors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 INDRuebner, Josh.
Summary: Argues that the Obama administration has not been successful in its efforts to broker peace between Israel and Palestine because of the President's deferment to Israeli policy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 RUEOren, Michael B.
Summary: From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marines--from the early American explorers who probed the sources of the Nile to the diplomats who strove for Arab-Israeli peace--the United States has been dramatically involved in the Middle East. For well over two centuries, American statesmen, merchants, and missionaries, both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W.Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 ORERoss, 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 ROSRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov, and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSYaqub, Salim.
Contents: Part 1: Lecture l. A meeting of two worlds -- Lecture 2. Wilson & the breakup of the Ottoman Empire -- Lecture 3. The interwar period -- Lecture 4. U.S. & the Middle East during World War II -- Lecture 5. Origins of the Cold War in the Middle East -- Lecture 6. Truman & the creation of Israel -- Lecture 7. Eisenhower, the Cold War & the Middle East -- Lecture 8. The Suez crisis & Arab...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.73 YAQSummary: Opponents of the U.S. special relationship with Israel note that Israel often defies Washington on issues such as settlements. In the volatile Middle East, they argue, America's coziness with Israel hurts U.S. relations with the Muslim world. Others, however, argue that the United States and Israel have an important connection built on shared values The two nations also have a history of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: "With the Middle East in turmoil, Israel's pre-eminent ally is thrust into an impending war-- America is now the target as the battle for Jerusalem begins."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pure Flix Entertainment 2011