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Israel and Palestine: Reflections, Revisions, Refutations by Avi Shlaim Publisher Comments The only way to make sense of Israel's senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the Palestinians. I write as someone who served loyally in the... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover 
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The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi Publisher Comments A timely and compelling examination of the Palestinian dilemma, named one of the 100 best books of the year by Publishers Weekly In Resurrecting Empire, Rashid Khalidi dissected the failures of colonial policy over the entire span of the modern history... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 by Gershom Gorenberg Publisher Comments “Remarkably insightful . . . A groundbreaking revision that deserves to reframe the entire debate . . . It soars.”—The New York Times Book Review In The Accidental Empire, Gershom Gorenberg examines the strange birth of the settler... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government -- A Memoir by Gregory Levey Publisher Comments Shut Up, I'm Talking is a smart, hilarious insider take on Israeli politics that reads like the bastard child of Thomas Friedman and David Sedaris. Now a political writer for Salon, Gregory Levey stumbled into a job as speechwriter for the Israeli... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim Publisher Comments Fascinating. . . . Shlaim presents compelling evidence for a revaluation of traditional Israeli history.-New York Times Book Review As it celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, the State of Israel could count many important successes, but its conflict with... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1949: The First Israelis by Tom Segev Publisher Comments The founding of Israel in 1948--one of the seminal events of the century--offers a heroic narrative with few parallels in modern history. In 1949, a controversial best-seller in Israel, Tom Segev draws on thousands of declassified documents along with... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Israel's Secret Wars : a History of Israel's Intelligence Services (91 Edition) by Ian Black Publisher Comments This is the first documented, comprehensive history of all three of Israel's intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s, through Israel's five wars, up to the present, with a new chapter updating the book through the Gulf War. Highly readable... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism by Ami Pedahzur Publisher Comments While Mossad is known as one of the world's most successful terrorist-fighting organizations, the state of Israel has, more than once and on many levels, risked the lives of its agents and soldiers through unwise intelligence-based intervention. The... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Hardcover
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1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris Publisher Comments This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $21.95 Used - Hardcover
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Major Farran's Hat: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Establish the Jewish State by David Cesarini Publisher Comments In May 1947 a sixteen-year-old Jewish activist named Alexander Rubowitz was abducted in broad daylight from the streets of Jerusalem. At the abduction scene, a gray hat was found, purportedly belonging to Major Roy Farran, a decorated World War II... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Far from Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community by Charles London Publisher Comments Are you Jewish? It was a question Charles London heard everywhere he went. Raised in a nonreligious Jewish family, London knew his heritage but had no strong desire to experience it personally. He even spent much of his teen years pretending not to be... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev Publisher Comments A panoramic and provocative history of life in Palestine during the three strife-torn but romantic decades when Britain ruled and the seeds of today's conflicts were sown. Tom Segev's acclaimed works, 1949 and The Seventh Million, overturned... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz Publisher Comments Even as Israel boldly offers statehood to Palestinians in exchange for an enduring peace, many academics and activists–primarily but not exclusively from the hard left–have gone on the attack against Israel, deriding it as an imperialist power... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman Publisher Comments A groundbreaking exposé of Israel's terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond. Hollow Land is a groundbreaking exploration of the political space created by Israel's colonial occupation. In this journey... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments President Carters challenging and provocative assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice for Palestinians--and one of the most important books of the year--is now available in paperback.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Israel vs. Utopia by Joel Schalit Publisher Comments Israel is a synonym for many things, the ancestral home of the Jewish people, the hell of the Palestinians; the realization of a centuries-old dream of freedom, and the heart of the War on Terror. No country inspires as much debate about its rights and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Revenge: A Story of Hope by Laura Blumenfeld Publisher Comments Laura Blumenfeld's father was shot in Jerusalem in 1986 by a member of a rebel faction of the PLO responsible for attacks on several tourists. Her father survived, but Blumenfeld's desire for revenge haunted her. This is her story -- and a fascinating... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Israel on the Couch: The Psychology of the Peace Process (Suny Series in Israeli Studies) by Ofer Grosbard Publisher Comments By applying a clinical psychologist's insight into the Israeli-Arab conflict, Ofer Grosbard lays the foundation for a new theory and practice that espouses the use of clinical tools to promote relations between countries, religions, political parties... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.60 Used - Trade Paper
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No Victor, No Vanquished: The 1973 Arab-Israeli War by Edgar Oballance Publisher Comments A balanced depiction, minutely detail ing the causes, preparation, strategies and actual battles of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Story of Israel by Martin Gilbert Synopsis Just over 100 years ago, Theodor Herzl launched the Zionist Movement. They called for a Jewish State in their ancestral land, Palestine. Fifty years later, the State of Israel came into being. Israel was established so that Jews anywhere in the world... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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