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  Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
  

  by David K. Shipler

  ISBN 081291273X (0-8129-1273-X)
  Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group

  
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  The correspondent for The New York Times in Jerusalem from 1979 to 1984, David K. Shipler brings a very American moral commitment to the problem of Arab-Jewish relations. The occupation of the West Bank was by then a static fact of life; many young Israelis and Palestinians had grown up knowing no other reality. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the massacres of Palestinians by Lebanese militiamen at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, which were under Israeli control, had shaken the consciences of many American Jews. Many of the voices in this book are American, from idealistic young secular Jews working for Arab-Jewish cooperation to the more fanatical followers of Meir Kahane. This work, which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, gives Shipler's narrative the power of a terrible family argument. [via]

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  Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History
  

  by Norman Finkelstein

  ISBN 0520249895 (0-520-24989-5)
  Softcover, Univ of California Pr

  
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  In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
  Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
  Finkelstein also scrutinizes the proliferation of distortion masquerading as history. Recalling Joan Peters' book From Time Immemorial, published to great fanfare in 1984 but subsequently exposed as an academic hoax, he asks deeply troubling questions here about the periodic reappearance of spurious scholarship and the uncritical acclaim it receives. The most recent addition to this genre, Finkelstein argues, is Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's bestseller, The Case for Israel.
  The core analysis of Beyond Chutzpah sets Dershowitz's assertions on Israel's human rights record against the findings of the mainstream human rights community. Sifting through thousands of pages of reports from organizations such as Amnesty International, B'Tselem, and Human Rights Watch, Finkelstein argues that Dershowitz has misrepresented the facts.
  Thoroughly researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah lifts the veil of controversy shrouding the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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  • Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History: ISBN 0520245989 (0-520-24598-9)
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  • Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History: ISBN 0520249895 (0-520-24989-5)
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  Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
  

  by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

  ISBN 0345314271 (0-345-31427-1)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books

  
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  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 shrewd observer with a lively command of high drama."
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  The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited
  

  by Benny Morris

  ISBN 0521009677 (0-521-00967-7)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  • The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited: ISBN 0521338891 (0-521-33889-1)
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  • The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited: ISBN 0521330289 (0-521-33028-9)
    Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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  Blaming the Victims
  

  by Edward Said

  ISBN 1859843409 (1-85984-340-9)
  Softcover, Verso Books

  
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  Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
  

  by Edward W. Said, Christopher Hitchens

  ISBN 0860918874 (0-86091-887-4)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  Blood Brothers
  

  by Elias Chacour, David Hazard

  ISBN 0800793218 (0-8007-9321-8)
  Softcover, Baker Pub Group

  
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  As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their Jewish neighbors. But early in 1947, their idyllic lifestyle was swept away as tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps.
  An exile in his native land, Elias began a years-long struggle with his love for the Jewish people and the world's misunderstanding of his own people, the Palestinians. How was he to respond? He found his answer in the simple, haunting words of the Man of Galilee: "Blessed are the peacemakers."
  In Blood Brothers, Chacour blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the birth of modern Israel. He touches on controversial questions such as "What behind-the-scenes politics touched off the turmoil in the Middle East?", "What does Bible prophecy really have to say?", and "Can bitter enemies ever be reconciled?"
  Originally published by Chosen Books in 1984 and now expanded with a new introduction by the author, a new foreword by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, and a "Since Then" epilogue by writer David Hazard, this compelling book offers readers hope-filled insight into living at peace in the most volatile region of the world. [via]

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  • Blood Brothers: ISBN 0310608104 (0-310-60810-4)
    Hardcover, Chosen Books
  • Blood Brothers: ISBN 0860653285 (0-86065-328-5)
    Hardcover, Kingsway
  • Blood Brothers: ISBN 0800793218 (0-8007-9321-8)
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  The Case Against Israel
  

  by Michael Neumann

  ISBN 1904859461 (1-904859-46-1)
  Softcover, A K Pr Distribution

  
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  Drinking the Sea at Gaza
  

  by Amira Hass, Elana Wesley, Maxine Kaufman Lacusta

  ISBN 0805057404 (0-8050-5740-4)
  Softcover, Henry Holt & Co

  
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  In what is sure to be a controversial book, Israeli reporter Amira Hass offers a rare portrait of the Palestinians in Gaza. Very few journalists have lived in that troubled region; Jewish ones are rarer still. "To most Israelis," Hass writes, "my move seemed outlandish, even crazy, for they believed I was surely putting my life at risk." But Israelis desperately need to understand the plight of the Palestinian people, she writes, and few of them read the unvarnished truth in the Jerusalem press. This has made most of them ignorant of what goes on right next door, and inspired unduly "harsh" attitudes toward Gaza and its one million residents. Hass even quotes the late Yitzhak Rabin, who wished that Gaza "would just sink into the sea," shortly before he signed the Oslo Accords. Wishing away the problem, however, is no solution, and Hass delivers a detailed--and highly opinionated--diagnosis of what's wrong with Israeli policy toward Gaza. Strong supporters of Israeli will say that Hass is nothing but a mouthpiece for the Palestinians. Indeed, this book's subtitle could apply as much to Israel, surrounded by bitter enemies, as it does to Gaza. Yet it would be wrong to ignore Hass: the scene in Gaza is woefully unreported. The book is not likely to change many minds--this is one of those subjects where passions run deep and fierce. Those who already sympathize with Hass's pro-Palestinian views will find Drinking the Sea at Gaza an invigorating book. --John J. Miller [via]

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  Drinking the Sea at Gaza : Days and Nights in a Land under Siege
  

  by Amira Hass, Maxine Nunn, Elana Wesley

  ISBN 0805057390 (0-8050-5739-0)
  Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

  
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  The Edward Said Reader
  

  by Edward W. Said, Andrew Rubin

  ISBN 0375709363 (0-375-70936-3)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers.  For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and Imperialism, Peace and Its Discontents, and the seminal study Orientalism, have influenced not only our worldview but the very terms of public discourse.
  
  The Edward Said Reader includes key sections from all of Said's books, from the groundbreaking 1966 study of Joseph Conrad to his new memoir, Out of Place. Whether he is writing of Zionism or Palestinian self-determination, Jane Austen or Yeats, music or the media, Said's uncompromising intelligence casts urgent light on every subject he undertakes. The Edward Said Reader will prove a joy to the general reader and an indispensable resource for scholars of politics, history, literature, and cultural studies: in short, of all those fields that his work has influenced and, in some cases, transformed. [via]

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  Encyclopedia of Fruit Trees and Edible Flowering Plants in Egypt and the Subtropics
  

  by Alfred G. Bircher, Warda H. Bircher, Vivi Tackholm

  ISBN 977424592X (977-424-592-X)
  Hardcover, Amer Univ in Cairo Pr

  
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  This definitive work, the result of two lifetimes of experimentation and research, provides a much-needed reference to all the genera and species of fruit trees and edible flowering plants cultivable in Egypt and other countries of the subtropics. In the first part of the book the authors introduce the reader to the general conditions relating to the cultivation of edible plants, such as the nature of the soil, irrigation, and the struggle against pests and diseases. The second part, which forms the bulk of the book, consists of an exhaustive alphabetical descriptive catalog of more than 9,000 genera and species, based on first-hand experimental data and illustrated with line drawings. The final part of the book contains an analytical index of genera (by type and use) and a comprehensive key of over 6,000 common plant names. [via]

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  The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After
  

  by Edward W. Said

  ISBN 0375725741 (0-375-72574-1)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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       Soon after the Oslo accords were signed in September 1993 by Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization, Edward Said predicted that they could not lead to real peace.  In these essays, most written for Arab and European newspapers, Said uncovers the political mechanism that advertises reconciliation in the Middle East while keeping peace out of the picture.
  
       Said argues that the imbalance in power that forces Palestinians and Arab states to accept the concessions of the United States and Israel prohibits real negotiations and promotes the second-class treatment of Palestinians.  He documents what has really gone on in the occupied territories since the signing.  He reports worsening conditions for the Palestinians critiques Yasir Arafat's self-interested and oppressive leadership, denounces Israel's refusal to recognize Palestine's past, andin essays new to this editionaddresses the resulting unrest.  
  
     In this unflinching cry for civic justice and self-determination, Said promotes not a political agenda but a transcendent alternative: the peaceful coexistence of Arabs and Jews enjoying equal rights and shared citizenship.

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  • The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After: ISBN 0375409300 (0-375-40930-0)
    Hardcover, Random House Inc
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  Exodus
  

  by Leon Uris

  ISBN 0553258478 (0-553-25847-8)
  Softcover, Bantam Books

  
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  Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event.  Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power.  Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era.  Here is Exodus --one of the great best-selling novels of all time.
  
  
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  • Exodus: ISBN 0517207982 (0-517-20798-2)
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  • Exodus: ISBN 0385050828 (0-385-05082-8)
    Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
  • Exodus: ISBN 055311090X (0-553-11090-X)
    Hardcover, Ballantine Books
  • Exodus: ISBN 2221098625 (2-221-09862-5)
    Softcover, Distribooks Inc
  • Exodus: ISBN 0553258478 (0-553-25847-8)
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  Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians
  

  by Noam Chomsky

  ISBN 1551641607 (1-55164-160-7)
  Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr

  
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  Contents

  Foreword by Edward W. Said
  Preface to the Updated Edition
  1. Fanning the Flames
  2. The Origins of the "Special Relationship"
  3. Rejectionism and Accommodation
  4. Isreal and Palestine: Historical Backgrounds
  5. Peace for Galilee
  6. Aftermath
  7. The Road to Armageddon
  8. The Palestinian Uprising
  9. "Limited War" in Lebanon
  10. Washington's "Peace Process"
  Index

  An Excerpt from Fateful Triangle, Updated Edition

  For some time, I've been compelled to arrange speaking engagements long in advance. Sometimes a title is requested for a talk scheduled several years ahead. There is, I've found, one title that always works: "The current crisis in the Middle East." One can't predict exactly what the crisis will be far down the road, but that there will be one is a fairly safe prediction.

  That will continue to be the case as long as basic problems of the region are not addressed.

  Furthermore, the crises will be serious in what President Eisenhower called "the most strategically important area in the world." In the early post-War years, the United States in effect extended the Monroe Doctrine to the Middle East, barring any interference apart from Britain, assumed to be a loyal dependency and quickly punished when it occasionally got out of hand (as in 1956). The strategic importance of the region lies primarily in its immense petroleum reserves and the global power accorded by control over them; and, crucially, from the huge profits that flow to the Anglo-American rulers, which have been of critical importance for their economies. It has been necessary to ensure that this enormous wealth flows primarily to the West, not to the people of the region. That is one fundamental problem that will continue to cause unrest and disorder. Another is the Israel-Arab conflict with its many ramifications, which have been closely related to the major U.S. strategic goal of dominating the region's resources and wealth.

  For many years, it was claimed the core problem was Soviet subversion and expansionism, the reflexive justification for virtually all policies since the Bolshevik takeover in Russia in 1917. That pretext having

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  • The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Isreal and the Palestinians: ISBN 0745315305 (0-7453-1530-5)
    Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
  • Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians: ISBN 0896086011 (0-89608-601-1)
    Softcover, South End Pr
  • Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians: ISBN 089608602X (0-89608-602-X)
    Hardcover, Pluto Press
  • Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians: ISBN 0896081877 (0-89608-187-7)
    Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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  • Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians: ISBN 1551641607 (1-55164-160-7)
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  From Beirut to Jerusalem
  

  by Thomas L. Friedman

  ISBN 0385413726 (0-385-41372-6)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  This revised edition of the number-one bestseller and winner of the 1989 National Book Award includes the Pulitzer Prize Winning author's new, updated epilogue.
  

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  • From Beirut to Jerusalem: ISBN 0374158959 (0-374-15895-9)
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  • From Beirut to Jerusalem: ISBN 0002150964 (0-00-215096-4)
    Hardcover, Collins
  • From Beirut to Jerusalem: ISBN 0374158940 (0-374-15894-0)
    Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
  • From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated With a New Chapter: ISBN 0385413726 (0-385-41372-6)
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  From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays
  

  by Edward W. Said, Said, Wadie E. (AFT), Tony Judt

  ISBN 1400076714 (1-4000-7671-4)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause from one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, which originally appeared in Cairos Al-Ahram Weekly, Londons Al-Hayat, and the London Review of Books, take us from the Oslo Accords through the U.S. led invasion of Iraq, and present information and perspectives too rarely visible in America.Said is unyielding in his call for truth and justice. He insists on truth about Israel's role as occupier and its treatment of the Palestinians. He pleads for new avenues of communication between progressive elements in Israel and Palestine. And he is equally forceful in his condemnation of Arab failures and the need for real leadership in the Arab world. [via]

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  Fuera De Lugar/ Out of Place
  

  by Edward W. Said

  ISBN 8497592913 (84-9759-291-3)
  Softcover, Debolsillo

  
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  Gate of the Sun
  

  by Elias Khoury, Humphrey Davies

  ISBN 0312426704 (0-312-42670-4)
  Softcover, St Martins Pr

  
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  Gate of the Sun: Bab Al-shams
  

  by Elias Khoury, Humphrey Davies

  ISBN 0976395029 (0-9763950-2-9)
  Hardcover, Archipelago Books

  
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  Gate of the Sun: Bab al-Shams is the first true magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. Through the passing of the beloved midwife and matriarch of the Shatila refugee camp outside Beirut, the reader enters a world of displacement, fear, and tenuous hope. A doctor tells a story to a man in a coma in an attempt to keep him alive. The patient, Yunes, is from Galilee, where he left Nahla, the love of his life. The novel unfolds at his bedside through Dr. Khalils intimate and haunting flights of memory.

  Khoury humanizes the complex Palestinian/Israeli -struggle for us, shedding light on the turbulent history with love and empathy. Khoury opens up a whole new territory, envisioning a place where confronting pain and humiliation might lead, if not to reconciliation, then at least to finding an element of the other in ones self. Us and Them become inextricably entwined through this realigned 1001 Nights. Originally published in Beirut in 1998, the novel has been a sensation throughout the Arab world, in Israel, and throughout Europe.

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  The Great Roman-Jewish War
  

  by William Whiston, Josephus, D.S. Margoliouth

  ISBN 0486432181 (0-486-43218-1)
  Softcover, Dover Pubns

  
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  An eyewitness account of a turning point in Judaism, Christianity, and all of Western civilization, this work chronicles the Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire from AD 6670. Written by a leader among the Jewish resistance who switched sides and collaborated with Rome, it is among the few sources of information about 1st-century Judaism.

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  History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem Or The Wars Of The Jews
  

  by Flavius Josephus

  ISBN 1419124218 (1-4191-2421-8)
  Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

  
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  But John made use of this festival as a cloak for his treacherous designs, and armed the most inconsiderable of his own party, the greater part of whom were not purified, with weapons concealed under their garments, and sent them with great zeal into the temple, in order to seize upon it. [via]

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  I Saw Ramallah
  

  by Ahdaf Soueif, Murid Barghuthi

  ISBN 1400032660 (1-4000-3266-0)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  I Saw Ramallah
  

  by Mourid Barghouti, Edward W. Said, Ahdaf Soueif

  ISBN 9774244990 (977-424-499-0)
  Hardcover, Amer Univ in Cairo Pr

  
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  Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
  

  by Norman G. Finkelstein

  ISBN 1859844421 (1-85984-442-1)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  This polemical study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature.

  First published in 1995, this polemical study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new edition critically re-examines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light of the current failures of the peace process. [via]

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  • Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict: ISBN 1859843395 (1-85984-339-5)
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  • Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict: ISBN 1859849407 (1-85984-940-7)
    Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
  • Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict: ISBN 1859844421 (1-85984-442-1)
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  The Innocents Abroad
  

  by Mark Twain

  ISBN 140430990X (1-4043-0990-X)
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  The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American New Barbarians and the European Old World provides much comic fodder for Mark Twainand a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twains lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out, Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all ones lifetime. And Jane Jacobs observes in her Introduction, If the reader is American, he may also find himself on a tour of his own psyche. [via]

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  The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land
  

  by Mark Twain

  ISBN 0895773392 (0-89577-339-2)
  Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association

  
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  Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII. WE were at sea now, for a very long voyage -- we were to pass through the entire length of the Levant; through the entire length of the Mediterranean proper, also, and then cross the full width of the Atlantic -- a voyage of several weeks. We naturally settled down into a very slow, stay-at-home manner of life, and resolved to be quiet, exemplary people, and roam no more for twenty or thirty days. No more, at least, than from stem to stern of the ship. It was a very comfortable prospect, though, for we were tired and needed a long rest. We were all lazy and satisfied, now, as the meager entries in my note-book (that sure index, to me, of my condition) prove. What a stupid thing a notebook gets to be at sea, any way. Please observe the style: '" Sunday--Services, as usual, at four bells. Services at night, also. No cards. "Monday--Beautiful day, but rained hard. The cattle purchased at Alexandria for beef ought to be shingled. Or else fattened. The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. Also here and there all over their backs. It is well they are not cows-- it would soak in and ruin the milk. The poor devil eagle* from Syria * Afterwards presented to the Central Park. looks miserable and droopy in the rain perched on the forward capstan. He appears to have his own opinion of a sea voyage, and if it were put into language and the language solidified, it would probably essentially dam the widest river in the world. "Tuesday--Somewhere in the neighborhood of the island of Malta. Can not stop there. Cholera. Weather very stormy. Many passengers seasick and invisible. "Wednesday--Weather still very savage. Storm blew two land birds to sea, and they came on board. A hawk was blown off, also. He circled round and round the shi... [via]

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  The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
  

  by Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell

  ISBN 0940450259 (0-940450-25-9)
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  Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII. WE were at sea now, for a very long voyage -- we were to pass through the entire length of the Levant; through the entire length of the Mediterranean proper, also, and then cross the full width of the Atlantic -- a voyage of several weeks. We naturally settled down into a very slow, stay-at-home manner of life, and resolved to be quiet, exemplary people, and roam no more for twenty or thirty days. No more, at least, than from stem to stern of the ship. It was a very comfortable prospect, though, for we were tired and needed a long rest. We were all lazy and satisfied, now, as the meager entries in my note-book (that sure index, to me, of my condition) prove. What a stupid thing a notebook gets to be at sea, any way. Please observe the style: '" Sunday--Services, as usual, at four bells. Services at night, also. No cards. "Monday--Beautiful day, but rained hard. The cattle purchased at Alexandria for beef ought to be shingled. Or else fattened. The water stands in deep puddles in the depressions forward of their after shoulders. Also here and there all over their backs. It is well they are not cows-- it would soak in and ruin the milk. The poor devil eagle* from Syria * Afterwards presented to the Central Park. looks miserable and droopy in the rain perched on the forward capstan. He appears to have his own opinion of a sea voyage, and if it were put into language and the language solidified, it would probably essentially dam the widest river in the world. "Tuesday--Somewhere in the neighborhood of the island of Malta. Can not stop there. Cholera. Weather very stormy. Many passengers seasick and invisible. "Wednesday--Weather still very savage. Storm blew two land birds to sea, and they came on board. A hawk was blown off, also. He circled round and round the shi... [via]

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  The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
  

  by Rashid Khalidi

  ISBN 0807003085 (0-8070-0308-5)
  Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

  
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  In Resurrecting Empire, Rashid Khalidi dissected the failures of colonial policy over the entire span of the modern history of the Middle East, predicted the meltdown in Iraq that we are now witnessing with increasing horror, and offered viable alternatives for achieving peace in the region. His newest book, The Iron Cage, hones in on Palestinian politics and history. Once again Khalidi draws on a wealth of experience and scholarship to elucidate the current conflict, using history to provide a clear-eyed view of the situation today.
  
  The story of the Palestinian search to establish a state begins in the era of British control over Palestine and stretches between the two world wars, when colonial control of the region became increasingly unpopular and power began to shift toward the United States. In this crucial period, and in the years immediately following World War II, Palestinian leaders were unable to achieve the long-cherished goal of establishing an independent state-a critical failure that throws a bright light on the efforts of the Palestinians to create a state in the many decades since 1948. By frankly discussing the reasons behind this failure, Khalidi offers a much-needed perspective for anyone concerned about peace in the Middle East. [via]

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  The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
  

  by Avi Shlaim

  ISBN 0393321126 (0-393-32112-6)
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  In 1897, under order of First Zionist Congress president Theodor Herzl, two Austrian rabbis traveled to Palestine to explore the possibility of locating a Jewish state there. "The bride is beautiful," the rabbis cabled Herzl, "but she is married to another man." That "other man" was the Palestinian Arab nation, long established in the region as a political entity. Undeterred, Herzl pressed on with his program of emigration, ignoring Palestine's existing occupants and creating in the process what came to be known as the "Arab question."

  In this far-ranging history, Avi Shlaim analyzes that question in remarkable detail, tracing the shifting policies of Israel toward the Palestinians and the Arab world at large. Herzl, he writes, followed a policy that consciously sought to enlist the great powers--principally Britain and later the United States--while dismissing indigenous claims to sovereignty; after all, Herzl argued, "the Arab problem paled in significance compared with the Jewish problem because the Arabs had vast spaces outside Palestine, whereas for the Jews, who were being persecuted in Europe, Palestine constituted the only possible haven." This policy later changed to a stance of confrontation against the admittedly hostile surrounding Arab powers, especially Syria, Jordan, and Egypt; this militant stance was a source of controversy in the international community, and it also divided Israelis into hawk and dove factions. The intransigence of those hawks, Shlaim shows, served to alienate Israel and made it possible for the Palestine Liberation Organization and other Arab nationalist groups to enlist the support of the great powers that Herzl had long before courted. Both sides, in turn, had eventually to face the "historic compromise" that led to the present peace in the Middle East--a peace that, the author suggests, may not endure. --Gregory McNamee [via]

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  Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?
  

  by Maxime Rodinson

  ISBN 0873488660 (0-87348-866-0)
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  Examines the historical roots of the Zionist movement and how the State of Israel was formed as a colonial-settler state dispossessing the Palestinian people.

  Index, annotation, maps. [via]

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  Israel/Palestine: How To End The War Of 1948
  

  by Tanya Reinhart

  ISBN 1583226516 (1-58322-651-6)
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  In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israels new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United Statesbrokered accords and talks at Camp David, Oslo, and Taba, Reinhart explores the fundamental power imbalances between the negotiating parties and identifies Israels strategy of creating facts on the ground to define and complicate the terms of any future settlement.
  In this indispensable primer, Reinharts searing insight illuminates the current conflict and suggests a path toward change. [via]

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  Jewish War
  

  by Flavius Josephus, G. A. Williamson

  ISBN 088029034X (0-88029-034-X)
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  Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus changed sides after he was captured to become a Rome-appointed negotiator, and so was uniquely placed to observe these turbulent events, from the siege of Jerusalem to the final heroic resistance and mass suicides at Masada. His account provides much of what we know about the history of the Jews under Roman rule, with vivid portraits of such key figures as the Emperor Vespasian and Herod the Great. Often self-justifying and divided in its loyalties, "The Jewish War" nevertheless remains one of the most immediate accounts of war, its heroism and its horrors, ever written. [via]

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  The Little Drummer Girl
  

  by John Le Carre

  ISBN 0743464656 (0-7434-6465-6)
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  In this enthralling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist. THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL is a thrilling, deeply moving and courageous novel of our times. [via]

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  Middle East Illusions
  

  by Noam Chomsky

  ISBN 0742533093 (0-7425-3309-3)
  Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

  
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  Middle East Illusions offers chapters written by Chomsky just before the 2000 Palestinian Intifada and up through October 2002, when 9-11 and a prospective U.S. military campaign against Iraq add new pressures to age-old conflicts. The book also includes the full text of Chomsky's earlier book, Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood, written during the crucial period spanning the Six-Day and 1973 wars, which continue to define and deeply influence events in the Middle East today. [via]

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  Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
  

  by Noam Chomsky

  ISBN 0742529770 (0-7425-2977-0)
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  What are the roots of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and how has it been influenced by the United States? Why has the U.S.-brokered "peace process" repeatedly failed to deliver peace? What are the prospects for a just resolution? What interests underlie current U.S. strategic doctrines in the Middle East, especially in its redeclared "war on terrorism" after 9-11, and how do we look beyond them to find more peaceful and viable alternatives?
  
  These are among the current and long-standing questions Noam Chomsky takes up in his newest book. Middle East Illusions presents recent chapters written by the author about the myths behind the peace process, the second Palestinian Intifada (which began in September 2000 and continues today in defiance of Israeli repression), and the Bush administration's response to the September 11 attacks on the United States, including its drive toward another war with Iraq.
  
  Middle East Illusions also includes the full text of Chomsky's earlier book, Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood, written during the crucial period spanning the Six-Day and 1973 wars, events that continue to define and deeply influence the world today. It therefore presents in-depth analysis covering several decades, making it one of the richest of any analysis published about the region's geopolitics.
  
  Noam Chomsky is recognized internationally for his critical analysis of the Middle East. His thoroughly documented research draws on an immense range of sources, including Hebrew texts rarely discussed in the United States, declassified government planning documents, and other sources all too often overlooked in discussions of the U.S. role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. [via]

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  O Jerusalem
  

  by Laurie R. King

  ISBN 0553581058 (0-553-58105-8)
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  One Palestine Complete
  

  by Tom Segev

  ISBN 0316648590 (0-316-64859-0)
  Hardcover, Little Brown & Co

  
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  Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1918 to 1948, replacing 500 years of Turkish control and leading to the State of Israel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the 20th century. When they arrived the country lay in a Levantine nirvana; by the time they left it had become the arena for one of the century's major international conflicts. Among the personalities who shape this narrative are Winston Churchill, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie, King Feisal, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion. One momentous consequence of these 30 years was that at the end of World War I there were 10 Arabs for every Jew. Based on diaries, letters and first-hand accounts, this is a narrative history of Palestine under Crown rule. [via]

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  One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
  

  by Tom Segev

  ISBN 0805065873 (0-8050-6587-3)
  Softcover, Henry Holt & Co

  
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  Out of Place
  

  by Edward W. Said

  ISBN 0679730672 (0-679-73067-2)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  Edward Said is one of the most celebrated cultural critics of the postwar world. Of his many books of literary, political, and philosophical criticism, Orientalism--a brilliant analysis of how Europe came to dominate the Orient through the creation of the myth of the exotic East--and the monumental Culture and Imperialism are the best known. His books have redefined readers' understanding of the impact of European imperialism upon the shape of modern culture. Said's career as a thinker spans literature, politics, music, philosophy, and history. As a dispossessed Palestinian growing up in the Middle East and subsequently living in the USA, he has witnessed the impact of the Second World War upon the Arab world, the dissolution of Palestine and the birth of Israel, the rise of Nasser and the PLO, the Lebanese Civil War, and the faltering peace process of the 1990s. As a result, the publication of Said's memoirs, Out of Place, is a particularly significant event. The book offers a fascinating account of the personal development of a critic and thinker who has straddled the divide between East and West, and in the process has redefined Western perceptions of the East and of the plight of Palestinian people.

  However, as the title suggests, Said's memoir is a far more ambivalent and at times personally painful account of his early years in Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon, as well as the often paralyzing embrace of his loving but overbearing parents. Said's memoirs are powerfully informed by his sense of personally, geographically, and linguistically "always being out of place." Born to Christian parents and caught between expressing himself in Arabic, English, and French, he evokes a vivid, but often very unhappy, portrait of growing up in Cairo and Lebanon under the crushing weight of his emotionally intense and ambitious family. The early sections of the book paint a poignant picture of the oppressive regime established over the awkward, painfully uncertain young Edward by his loving mother and expectant, unforgiving father, both of whom cast the longest emotional shadows over the book. Those expecting an account of Said's subsequent intellectual development will be disappointed; apart from the final 50 pages, which deal with Said's education at Princeton and Harvard, Out of Place is, as Said himself says, primarily "a record of an essentially lost or forgotten world, my early life." It is this carefully disclosed record that accounts for Said's deeply ambivalent relationship with both his family and the Palestinian cause. Composed in the light of serious illness, Out of Place is an elegantly written reflection on a life that has movingly come to terms with "being not quite right and out of place." --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]

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  Palestine
  

  by Joe Sacco

  ISBN 156097432X (1-56097-432-X)
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  Palestine in the Gaza Strip
  

  by Joe Sacco

  ISBN 1560973005 (1-56097-300-5)
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  Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
  

  by Jimmy Carter

  ISBN 0743285026 (0-7432-8502-6)
  Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

  
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  The crowning achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, and he has continued his public and private diplomacy ever since, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of work for peace, human rights, and international development. He has been a tireless author since then as well, writing bestselling books on his childhood, his faith, and American history and politics, but in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, he has returned to the Middle East and to the question of Israel's peace with its neighbors--in particular, how Israeli sovereignty and security can coexist permanently and peacefully with Palestinian nationhood.

  It's a rare honor to ask questions of a former president, and we are grateful that President Carter was able to take the time in between his work with his wife, Rosalynn, for the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity and his many writing projects to speak with us about his hopes for the region and his thoughts on the book.

  A big thank you to President Carter for granting our request for an interview.

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  An Interview with President Jimmy Carter
  
  Q: What has been the importance of your own faith in your continued interest in peace in the Middle East?
  A: As a Christian, I worship the Prince of Peace. One of my preeminent commitments has been to bring peace to the people who live in the Holy Land. I made my best efforts as president and still have this as a high priority.
  
  Q: A common theme in your years of Middle East diplomacy has been that leaders on both sides have often been more open to discussion and change in private than in public. Do you think that's still the case?
  A: Yes. This is why private and intense negotiations can be successful. More accurately, however, my premise has been that the general public (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) are more eager for peace than their political leaders. For instance, a recent poll done by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that 58% of Israelis and 81% of the Palestinians favor a comprehensive settlement similar to the Roadmap for Peace or the Saudi proposal adopted by all 23 Arab nations and recently promoted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Tragically, there have been no substantive peace talks during the past six years.
  
  Q: How have the war in Iraq and the increased strength of Iran (and the declarations of their leaders against Israel) changed the conditions of the Israel-Palestine question?
  A: Other existing or threatened conflicts in the region greatly increase the importance of Israel's having peace agreements with its neighbors, to minimize overall Arab animosity toward both Israel and the United States and reduce the threat of a broader conflict.
  
  Q: Your use of the term "apartheid" has been a lightning rod in the response to your book. Could you explain your choice? Were you surprised by the reaction?
  A: The book is about Palestine, the occupied territories, and not about Israel. Forced segregation in the West Bank and terrible oppression of the Palestinians create a situation accurately described by the word. I made it plain in the text that this abuse is not based on racism, but on the desire of a minority of Israelis to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land. This violates the basic humanitarian premises on which the nation of Israel was founded. My surprise is that most critics of the book have ignored the facts about Palestinian persecution and its proposals for future peace and resorted to personal attacks on the author. No one could visit the occupied territories and deny that the book is accurate.
  
  Q: You write in the book that "the peace process does not have a life of its own; it is not self-sustaining." What would you recommend that the next American president do to revive it?
  A: I would not want to wait two more years. It is encouraging that President George W. Bush has announced that peace in the Holy Land will be a high priority for his administration during the next two years. On her January trip to the region, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called for early U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. She has recommended the 2002 offer of the Arab nations as a foundation for peace: full recognition of Israel based on a return to its internationally recognized borders. This offer is compatible with official U.S. Government policy, previous agreements approved by Israeli governments in 1978 and 1993, and with the International Quartet's "roadmap for peace." My book proposes that, through negotiated land swaps, this "green line" border be modified to permit a substantial number of Israelis settlers to remain in Palestine. With strong U.S. pressure, backed by the U.N., Russia, and the European Community, Israelis and Palestinians would have to come to the negotiating table.
  
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  The term "good-faith" is almost inappropriate when applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a bloody struggle interrupted every so often by negotiations that turn out to be anything but honest. Nonetheless, thirty years after his first trip to the Mideast, former President Jimmy Carter still has hope for a peaceful, comprehensive solution to the region's troubles, delivering this informed and readable chronicle as an offering to the cause. An engineer of the 1978 Camp David Accords and 2002 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Carter would seem to be a perfect emissary in the Middle East, an impartial and uniting diplomatic force in a fractured land. Not entirely so. Throughout his work, Carter assigns ultimate blame to Israel, arguing that the country's leadership has routinely undermined the peace process through its obstinate, aggressive and illegal occupation of territories seized in 1967. He's decidedly less critical of Arab leaders, accepting their concern for the Palestinian cause at face value, and including their anti-Israel rhetoric as a matter of course, without much in the way of counter-argument. Carter's book provides a fine overview for those unfamiliar with the history of the conflict and lays out an internationally accepted blueprint for peace.
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