Enemies and neighbors : Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 /
Black, Ian, 1953-
Enemies and neighbors : Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 / Ian Black. - xxii, 605 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-562) and index.
Enemies and Neighbors is a big, textured, and, crucially, balanced account of over 100 years of the Israel-Palestine conflict, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration (the famous pledge made by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 expressing sympathy for a national Jewish home in Palestine). 2017 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War in June 1967, during which Israel seized its current borders. Much of the existing literature on the Israel-Palestine conflict focuses on the era post-Israeli independence (starting in 1948), has a clear bias, and/or comes at the subject from an academic angle. This is a major, engagingly written trade history covering the entire arc of the conflict up to the present, and Black has done an extraordinary job of telling it from both sides.
9780802127037 9780802128607
2017043696
Jewish-Arab relations--History.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government.
DS119.7 / .B575 2017
956.9405
Enemies and neighbors : Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 / Ian Black. - xxii, 605 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-562) and index.
Enemies and Neighbors is a big, textured, and, crucially, balanced account of over 100 years of the Israel-Palestine conflict, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration (the famous pledge made by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 expressing sympathy for a national Jewish home in Palestine). 2017 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War in June 1967, during which Israel seized its current borders. Much of the existing literature on the Israel-Palestine conflict focuses on the era post-Israeli independence (starting in 1948), has a clear bias, and/or comes at the subject from an academic angle. This is a major, engagingly written trade history covering the entire arc of the conflict up to the present, and Black has done an extraordinary job of telling it from both sides.
9780802127037 9780802128607
2017043696
Jewish-Arab relations--History.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government.
DS119.7 / .B575 2017
956.9405