Since its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel has been torn by a deeply rooted conflict between secular and religious Jews. This book analyses the complexity of this 'quiet civil war' through more than sixty interviews of religious and secular Jews, as well as reports of key events.
Since 1948, Israel has withstood three full-scale invasions on multiple fronts, bloody wars with Palestinian militias, deadly bombings of its diplomatic missions, and hundreds of terrorist attacks within its territory and against its citizens abroad. This violence has inflicted immense suffering and loss on the people of Israel, but the country ......
In this book, scholars in history, law, political science, biblical studies , theology, and interfaith relations analyze the actions and significance of Christian Zionist work across Africa, discussing implications for faith, justice, and international relations in Africa, Israel, and Palestine.
For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Middle East, while detractors view it as a racist outpost of Western colonialism. The romanticization of Israel became particularly prominent in 1967, ......
For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Middle East, while detractors view it as a racist outpost of Western colonialism. The romanticization of Israel became particularly prominent in 1967, ......
Ten leading scholars and practitioners of politics, political science, anthropology, Israel studies, and Middle East affairs address the theme of continuity and change in political culture as a tribute to Professor Myron (Mike) J. Aronoff whose work on political culture has built conceptual and methodological bridges between political science and ......
Leading scholars and practitioners of politics, political science, anthropology, Israel studies, and Middle East affairs examine aspects of continuity and change in political culture in tribute to Professor Myron J. Aronoff whose work on political culture has built conceptual and methodological bridges between political science and anthropology.
Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and Three Fateful Days in March
This book traces the dynamics in the current fraught relationship between Israel and Palestine to the dramatic events of March 27-29, 2002--from a bloody suicide bombing to the Arab Peace Initiative to the invasion and reoccupation of the West Bank, where Israeli soldiers won a bloody military battle but Israel lost the media battle of public ......
