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According to the Israeli columnist Dan Margalit, the book owes its inception at least in part to an interview which the three authors had with Golda Meir.When they asked her some critical questions about the recently started Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Golda answered, "You better think of what would have happened if Israel lost the war".
Ethan Bronner, in the New York Times, found the book a largely persuasive defence of Israel's positions morally and politically, but disputed the statement that there is no "cycle of violence", and that there is only one-sided aggression since Israel simply fights back against "Palestinian terrorists". He felt this ignored the daily aggression ...
Today, the descendants of Jews who immigrated to Israel from other Middle Eastern lands (known as Mizrahi Jews and Sephardic Jews) constitute more than half of the total Israeli population. [11] In 2009, only 26 000 Jews remained in Arab countries and Iran, [12] as well as another 26 000 in Turkey. [13]
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid [1] is a book written by 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter.It was published by Simon & Schuster in November 2006. [2]The book is primarily based on talks, hosted by Carter during his presidency, between Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt that led to the Egypt–Israel peace treaty.
It deals with the Israel-Palestine conflict and follows two narratives which intersect, showing the complex history of the conflict in the lives of the individuals and society as a whole. The book was Booklist’s Editor’s Choice for best adult non-fiction book in 2006, and won a Christopher Award in 2007. [1]
Historians and archaeologists agree that the northern Kingdom of Israel existed by ca. 900 BCE [49] [50] and the Kingdom of Judah existed by ca. 850 BCE. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] The Kingdom of Israel was the more prosperous of the two kingdoms and soon developed into a regional power; [ 53 ] during the days of the Omride dynasty , it controlled Samaria ...
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The Class follows the diverse fates of five members of Harvard's Class of 1958 (which was Segal's own class in real life) recounting the way their lives intertwine, and coming to a dramatic conclusion at their class reunion, twenty-five years later. Andrew Eliot comes from the Boston Brahmin Eliot family. Due to his background, he feels the ...