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Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Efforts to achieve a "two-state solution" have finally collapsed; the struggle for justice in Palestine is at a crossroads. As Israel and its advocates lurch toward greater extremism, many ask where the struggle is headed. This book offers a clear analysis of this crossroads moment and looks forward with urgency down the path to a more hopeful future. Ali Abunimah is the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli Palestinian Impasse,...
2) The shortest history of Israel and Palestine: from Zionism to Intifadas and the struggle for peace
Author
Series
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An accessible, balanced history for anyone who wants to understand how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed over the past century"--
3) Abe
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Abe is an aspiring chef who wants his cooking to bring people together, but his half-Israeli, half-Palestinian family has never had a meal that didn't end in a fight. Ditching his traditional summer camp, Abe begins working with Chico, an adventurous street chef who encourages him to think outside his old cuisines. However, when Abe's deceit is uncovered, he must grapple with his family and his passions and whether even the most lovingly...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the expert who understands both sides of one of the world's most complex, controversial topics, a modern-day Guide for the Perplexed-a primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Can't you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?" This is the question Daniel Sokatch is used to answering on an almost daily basis as the head of the New Israel Fund, an organization dedicated to equality and democracy for...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad's fate. It is every...
Author
Series
Marcus Ryker novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 assassinated, Clarke orders Marcus Ryker and a team of CIA...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 had fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Balcony on the Moon follows Ibtisam Barakat through her childhood and adolescence in Palestine from 1972-1981 and chronicles her desire to be a writer"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Michael B. Oren's memoir of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United States--a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East--provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between America and its closest ally in the region,"--Amazon.com.
Author
Language
English
Description
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils...
Author
Publisher
Almuzara
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
¿Cuándo y por qué se fundó el Estado de Israel? ¿Y por qué allí? ¿Qué ideas le subyacen?, ¿qué causas y aspiraciones respaldan tan magno acontecimiento de la historia universal? Las páginas de este volumen ofrecen respuestas a las interrogantes planteadas, revelando, además, los fundamentos de algunos de los motivos que influyen en las consecuencias ligadas al éxito en la empresa de establecer un Estado judío. Leo Pinsker y Theodor...
Author
Language
English
Description
The classic le Carré spy novel comes to AMC as a 6 part mini-series starring Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Shannon, and Florence Pugh and directed by the acclaimed Park Chan-Wook On holiday in Mykonos, Charlie wants only sunny days and a brief escape from England's bourgeois dreariness. Then a handsome stranger lures the aspiring actress away from her pals--but his intentions are far from romantic. Joseph is an Israeli intelligence officer, and Charlie...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two siblings, Nessa and Ephra stein, children of a zionist arms procurer, now run a foundation aiming to reduce the conflict through increasing Palestine's economic prosperity. When Nessa's foundation is about to announce a major business contract with a prominent Palestinian businessman, he is found dead in an apparent suicide. As doubt circles around his cause of death, an international investigation turns into a manhunt.
16) Blood brothers
Author
Publisher
Chosen Books
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
The story of Elias Chacour, a Palestinian Christian with deep love for Jews and Palestinians alike. Combines the history of Christianity in the Middle East with a new perspective on Bible prophecy and the Zionist movement. Recommended as essential reading for understanding the Middle East.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Complete with maps and photographs, a guide provides a comprehensive review of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a review of the area's history, its people, significant past and present events, and definitions of commonly used terms.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Presents an examination of Israel that traces the events that led the country to its current state of conflict through the stories of everyday citizens to illuminate the importance of lesser-known historical events. It is an authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today. Here the author draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries,...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: confrontation. Scattered over the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace proposals, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions and state-building efforts. The conventional story is that these well-meaning attempts at peacemaking...
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