TY - BOOK AU - Black,Ian TI - Enemies and neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 SN - 9780802127037 AV - DS119.7 .B575 2017 U1 - 956.9405 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Atlantic Monthly Press KW - Jewish-Arab relations KW - History KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Palestinian Arabs KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-562) and index N2 - 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 ER -