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Books on history of Israel and Palastine

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  • 12-01-2011 10:07pm
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    orchidsrpretty
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    Has anyone got any good recommendations on books about the hisory of the above countries, about the wars etc.
    TIA


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    Paddy Samurai
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    orchidsrpretty wrote: »
    Has anyone got any good recommendations on books about the hisory of the above countries, about the wars etc.
    TIA

    Although indirectly linked I have two books by Robert Fisk sitting on my bookshelf. Hope to get around to them this year.

    Lebanon at War .......
    The book's main pre-occupation is the Israeli invasion of the early 1980s and its terrible aftermath, including the appalling massacre of Palestinians at the Shabra and Chatila camps.


    The great War for Civilisation...
    An astonishing and timely account of 50 years of bloodshed and tragedy in the Middle East from one of our finest and most revered journalists. 'The Great War for Civilisation' is written with passion and anger, a reporter's eyewitness account of the Middle East's history. All the most dangerous men of the past quarter century in the region -- from Osama bin Laden to Ayatollah Khomeini, from Saddam to Ariel Sharon -- come alive in these pages. Fisk has met most of them, and even spent the night out at a guerrilla camp with Bin Laden himself. In a narrative of blood and mass killing, Fisk tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West's cynical support for the Middle East's most ruthless dictators and America's ever more powerful military presence in the world's most dangerous lands as well as its uncritical, unconditional support for Israel's occupation of Palestinian land. It is also a story of journalists at war, of the rage, humour and frustration of the correspondents who spend their lives reporting the first draft of history, their weaknesses and cowardice, their courage and truth-telling. After reading 'The Great War for Civilisation' the reader grasps just why those 19 suicide pilots changed the world on September 11th. Assessing the situation right up to the present day and reporting from the heart of a bombed-out Baghdad, Fisk examines the factors leading up to the coalition forces entering Iraq, and discusses possible outcomes of long-term involvement ther
    Both have got some great reviews on given an insight into the whole middle east situation.


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    sceptre
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    Moved to History & Heritage - the Literature forum is for, well, literature:)


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    teekayd25
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    "The Fifty Years War - Israel and the Arabs"

    Concise, accessible, well illustrated. Going cheap on Amazon these days too.


    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fifty-Years-War-Israel-Arabs/dp/0140268278/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294934304&sr=8-1


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    PatsytheNazi
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    Paddy Samurai wrote: »
    Although indirectly linked I have two books by Robert Fisk sitting on my bookshelf. Hope to get around to them this year.

    Lebanon at War .......



    The great War for Civilisation...
    Both have got some great reviews on given an insight into the whole middle east situation.
    Robert Fisk is OUTSTANDING, none better.


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    Dioluin
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    'The Palestine - Israeli Conflict' by Dan Cohn-Sherbok & Dawoud El-Alami.
    This book gives two accounts of the history of Palestine/Israel from the 1800's up to 2008. Its split into two parts and each part is written by a Jewish Rabbi & an Arab Professer, to give both perspectives on the situation.


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    tim_holsters
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    As anyone read Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East by Jeremy Bowen.

    Was going to buy it in Eason's today but in the end decided against it.


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    JustinDee
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    tim_holsters wrote: »
    As anyone read Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East by Jeremy Bowen.

    Was going to buy it in Eason's today but in the end decided against it.
    Yes, its a pretty good chronology of what led to and happened during the Six Day War, mainly based on personal accounts.


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    tim_holsters
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    ^Good stuff, I think I'll purchase next time.


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    Snickers Man
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    PatsytheNazi wrote: »
    Robert Fisk is OUTSTANDING, none better.

    Have you really read "The Great War For Civilisation" cover to cover? I'm impressed.

    Fisk needs to be sent to a re-education centre and force fed the dictum that "brevity is the soul of wit".

    He could, and should, make all his important points and include all his important narrative in about a half of the number of words he uses.

    Make that a third.


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    Zebra3
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    orchidsrpretty wrote: »
    Has anyone got any good recommendations on books about the hisory of the above countries, about the wars etc.
    TIA

    The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe.

    Amazing book, though it can get quite graphic.

    Pappe's research is mainly from a mix of IDF files and interviews with Palestinian refugees.


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