Palestine In Crisis

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Since the breakdown of the Oslo peace process in 2000 and the beginning of the second Intifada, conflict has escalated in Israel/Palestine and come to seem irreversible. The overwhelming power of the Israeli military has been unleashed against a largely defenseless population in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza, driving Palestinians to despair and to desperate measures of retaliation. The author of this book, Michel Warschawski, has for many decades been active in building alliances of Jews and Palestinians to oppose the Israeli occupation. In this book, however, he focuses especially on the effects of the occupation on the occupiers—that is, on Israeli society—rather than its victims.

Warschawski describes the atrocities of the occupation—from the sack of Ramallah to the massacre in Jenin, the razing of houses and refugee camps, shooting at ambulances and hospitals, the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields—showing how each of these pushes back the boundaries of what was previously thinkable. He documents the resulting shifts in Israeli political thought, citing Ariel Sharon, army officers and even rabbis who begin by describing Palestinians as Nazis and end by relying on the German army's tactics for subjugating the Warsaw ghetto. Toward an Open Tomb seeks to explain the forces within Israeli society and culture that are leading to this self-defeating result.

Warschawski has the keen eye of an Israeli insider. He develops a powerful critique of Israeli policies with a persuasive power drawn from his own Jewish origins and his deepening devotion to Jewish traditions.

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Warschawski explains Israel's national psychosis.......2006-07-25

This book is as frightening as it is clarifying. It seems that the government of Israel has gone mad and that it has infected the citizenry and the entire social and civic fabric of Israeli society. With no respect for law, with no recognition of rights, with pathological hatred of non-Jews and paranoia that is all-encompassing, the state of Israel is heading for a bottomless pit.

The recent barbaric invasion and destruction of Lebanon, a sovereign nation, is the work of people who have lost control and are working strictly on "lizard brain" impulses. Anyone can see that this deliberate destruction of a nation's infrastructure and the slaughter of its people is not "self defense" but the crazed lashing out of a wild beast with its back to the wall. The trouble is that Israel has created this situation by treating the Palestinians and other Arab peoples in the region like subhumans while stealing their land and water. Israel cannot exist, it believes, unless there is constant war against its immediate neighbors.

Warschawski makes the history and current events very clear, indeed.

Sharp and Insightful.......2005-04-21

Michel Warschawski has really achieved something with this book, I think. A harsh critique of Israeli society, the book manages to pack a lot into a small number of pages. Furthermore, Warschawski manages to mix up the format very effectively, giving the book a very alive feeling. In addition, despite certain flaws, Warschawski's thesis -- that the assassination of Rabin was a turning point in which the Israeli left refused to confront the extreme right, priveleging "national unity" over peace and progress -- is compelling. I can easily say that this book had an impact on me that few others have.

Hard core demonization.......2005-03-06

Michael Warschawski claims that some Israelis actually see the present Arab cult of dying to kill Jews as similar to the German National Socialist cult of the 1930s and 1940s. Well, he's right. Some Israelis do see some similarities. And so do I.

Of course, the author implies that it is evil to think such thoughts. He's entitled to his opinion. If he wants, he can say that "racism and violence have always been in Israeli culture." Matter of fact, he wrote exactly that. That's a very misleading thing to write, but it seems that people can say anything, and this book proves it.

The author says that the symbol of Israel is the bulldozer. Not to me. I might pick some nice, drip-irrigated fields. And he does discuss the use of a National Socialist "vocabulary," not by the Arab terrorists, but by the Israelis.

Still, if the Israelis are not good enough for him, who is? Surely nations in general are, on the average, worse than Israel. What solution does that imply? I think it would have been fair for him to explain that we humans have made a huge number of species extinct, but that only one more species has to go to end the slaughter. That would have put his views into perspective.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Crisis in the Middle East

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Great photography, good writing
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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, The Crisis in the Middle East

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Crisis in the Middle East
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Shallow, full of cliches.......2007-08-15

Perhaps it is inevitable but this book is like most of the media's coverage of the 'Israeli-Palestinian' conflict. It contains the typical pictures: The Muslim woman in her headscarf and the Israeli soldier, the Arab children and the Israeli soldier, the Arab with a rock and the Israeli tank. The Dome of the Rock. The Jew at the Western Wall. The Arab with his Khaffiyeh and olive tree.

The history is simplistic and often biased. The book does not use the word 'terrorist' but in the footnotes explains that the first use of the word 'terrorist' by the media referred to "Jewish terrorist in Mandatory Palestine." Thus according to Reuters, there are no modern terrorists, but if there were terrorists they would be Jews.

The pictures are the ones made famous all over the world due to the second intifada. The Palestinian throwing the rock at the tank, the Israeli soldier shouting at the Palestinian man. It would have been nice just once to see something original. Perhaps to read about cleaveges within Palestinian society. Perhaps to learn about the Russians who moved to Israeli settlements because of poverty. Perhaps a story about the Bedouin and Druzim in the Israeli army. Perhaps a story about Palestinians killed by other Palestinians, or the role of Palestinian Christians. How about a story about Taybeh and its beer brewery, the only one in Palestine? How about a story about all the suicide bombings in Israel?

No, its easier to be un-original and not look beneath the surface.

Seth J. Frantzman

Great photography, good writing.......2003-04-21

This is an excellent book on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The book is filled with beautiful photography and good writing. Note that this book is relatively up-to-date (published in July 2002), and it does a fairly nice job explaining how the Oslo Accords fell apart in the latter 1990s. Of particular interest is the second half of the book that has short biographies of the major players involved.

The maps in this book are excellent, showing how the borders have changed with respect to the territories, especially the W. Bank. The best part of this book is the photography: the photos are absolutely gorgeous. This one's a keeper, but be sure to augment your library (and your knowledge) with a more thorough and academic treatment of this conflict's history. e.g. Tessler's book.

Excellent, non-biased, brings out the human aspects.......2002-11-23

In the last three years I have visited both Israel and some of its Arab neighbours (Jordan and Syria) and have carefully read some of the best books written on the issues affecting the current conflict. I keep asking myself the question: Which of the two sides is right? The answer is extremely complex, as it becomes apparent that the leaders on both sides have opposing visions and are men of war and not of peace. Israel wants to somehow live in an ethnically uniform land, and for that have to "encourage" the Palestinians to leave. Whereto? They don't really care, as long as they leave. The Palestinians, who were there long before the Hebrews, don't want to leave and want those of them who were expelled from their homes over succeding wars to be allowed to return to Israel to live there in peace. Israel doesn't want them back. The vision is not what is lacking; what is lacking on both sides is something called "generosity".

Having said all this, this book helps, through its well-written text and through its very moving pictures, to understand the issues. The book is very current, so it brings its coverage right up to date, in the best journalistic style (trust Reuters for that!). It is non-biased, in that it shows that both sides have a point. Suicide bombers have become so out of despair! Things just have to be talked over! In any negotiation, neither side can expect to win durably unless it is prepared to meet the other side's needs!

Lastly, a key point. Through the pictures which transmit almost unendurable suffering on both sides, one is just as moved to see a Palestinian grandfather shot by Israeli troops than to see a young Israeli killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber. Suffering, and empathizing with it, doesn't know any side. Many Israelis have Palestinian friends and viceversa. Why can't their politicians be more succesful in allowing them to live in peace?

I definitely recommend this book. You'll read it in one afternoon.

AWesome.......2002-08-18

This is a very good, NON biased book about the conflict in the middle east. It has the most moving, excellent pictures you can find and is a great book to own. i will save this book, as i am from there. It is such a complex problem but this book explains it very good.

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, The Crisis in the Middle East.......2002-08-03

Wow, An excellent Book! I picked up a copy after a friend gave me another of Reuter's books "September 11" which is just like this one, filled with the pictures of the human drama that has come from those tragedies! It was difficult for me to look at that book since I knew so many people in the Towers, but it is a testimony to the human will that these two books illustrate! This is written by the reporters from Reuters, who are right there everyday, so it is good to have a balanced perspective, to know what is going on!

The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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The wrenching situation in the Middle East, recent events have shown, is as complex as it is volatile. In this immensely learned and clarifying volume—here updated and issued in paper for the first time— the Ruethers trace the tortured and contested history of Israel/Palestine from biblical times through the Diaspora, the development of Zionism, the creation of the modern state of Israel, and the subsequent conflict with Arab and Palestinian nationalism.

Magisterial in its grasp of the historical, political, economic, and religious roots of the conflict, The Wrath of Jonah also offers convincing analysis of the moral and political dilemmas facing Israelis and Palestinians today. Though they see possibilities for peace, the Ruethers are forthright about what they and others see as Israel's betrayal of its own original mandate. Their purpose, state the Ruethers, "continues to be to make a modest contribution to truthful historical accountability that must underlie the quest for justice, without which there can be no `peace.'"

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Read This!!!.......2007-04-29

I have been studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since my recent visit to Israel/Palestine, and I find myself returning again and again to the Ruethers' book as a sane touchstone and source of good facts in the malestrom of propaganda and high emotion that characterizes most publications on this subject. The book is thoroughly researched and sources are cited. While I cannot comment on the appropriateness of the Ruethers' theology to a Jewish reader, as some reviewers have done, I can applaud their even-handedness with both Israelis and Palestinians, criticizing where criticism is due and expressing hope where appropriate. Their criticism of Zionism qua Zionism is somewhat problematic, but then, as they amply demonstrate, Zionism's inherent implications are themselves highly problematic. I wouldn't ever want to see Israel disappear, and I deplore the violence that continues there sporadically, but I don't want the Palestinian people to disappear, either. We so rarely hear their story.

Part of why I recommend this book so highly is that I was able to travel in both Israel and the Occupied Territories recently, and to talk with many groups of people - Israeli settlers, kibbutz-dwellers, Palestinians in Bethlehem, people of all three Abrahamic faiths. And what I saw with my own eyes was deeply disturbing to me, and begged for answers. There is a severe crisis of human rights in the Occupied Territories; many times I looked to the others traveling with me, and though neither of us could bring ourselves to say it, we were thinking the same awful thing: that Israel as a nation seems determined to minimize, humiliate, isolate, abuse, and ultimately "remove" the Palestinians. It was such a disturbing echo of the Jewish people's own worst history, that none of us could understand how Israel, of all the nations of the earth, could be doing all this. It takes a book like Rosemary & Henry's to uncover roots of this deeply intractable and alarming situation, and to correct the endemic American impression that the balance of power favors the Palestinians. I hate to say it, because growing up in a largely Jewish suburb of Chicago I was always inclined to favor Israel's version of events, but this is an honest book; it is a book badly needed, and should be read by practically everybody who cares about the Middle East.

A Succient History of Why the Conflict Between the Israel and Palestinians .......2006-11-21

If one is looking for a book to tell them the story of how we got where we are in the present day conflict between Israel and the Palestians,this is the book to read. It also has maps showing what territory is being discussed at different dates in the conflict. The book begins at the beginning, that is, how Zioniam was formed and for what purpose. The authors show how the Bible is used by both sides to cement their claims.
For anyone wishing to understand what the problem is all about, this is the book you have been waiting for.

A Neo-Catholic sermon on the evils of Jewish nationalism.......2005-12-22

Reuters' book is, essentially, a detailed pro Palestinian Arab Christian and Islamic critique of Jewish nationalism, or Zionism.

Ostensibly, it claims to be a critique of the religious aspect to Palestinian and Israeli nationalisms but, in fact, almost wholly restricts itself to an analysis of the relation of Judaism to Jewish nationalism, Zionism and Israel.

This is surprising, given that both Reuters are Roman Catholics, less so given that Herman J. is former director of the Palestinian Human Rights Campaign.

In no small part the work often reads like a neo-Catholic sermon to Jews as to the nature of True, Universal, Spiritual Judaism, and how Zionism is a violation of all three. The work may be viewed as a neo-Catholic evangel in a post-Christian West.

While Rabbinic strictures on the nature of the final Redemption and Restoration of Israel to the land, and how Jewish nationalism constitutes their betrayal are examined finely, less attention is paid to traditional Christian and Islamic views of Jews and The Land.

While acknowledging that Christian tradition, ab initio, defined the Jews as a nation dispossessed of temple, city and land, by g-d, through the agency of Rome, the original western European colonial empire, as a punishment for their sins, specifically the rejection of Jesus, no moral conclusions are inferred.

Indeed, Reuters, while quoting Patristic tradition that Jews are a nation dispossessed, they then claim, somewhat inconsistently that, only in the 16th century were Jews first regarded as a nation, their heretofore being merely a `religious group' , citing Jews' ability to abandon their `Jewishness' through conversion.

Aside inconsistency, Reuters fail to realise that the racial hostility encountered by Spanish Jews upon conversion arose from the novel situation of Jews' converting en masse. Hithertoo Jews had largely converted as individuals, often into the Christian clergy, creating little ethnic shock for their host societies.

But, all the while, the Jews had still been regarded as an alien nation, as numerous medieval Papal bulls testify.

Again, a somewhat surprising omission given both Reuters' Catholicism and Rosemary Radford's work on medieval Christian antisemitism, Faith and Fraticide.

There is a similar omission with regard to Islam: the Qur'an too addresses the Jews as a people dispossessed (though the Prophet appears to associate their potential future redemption with Return), by Al-ah's servant, Rome. As with Christianity, no moral inferences are drawn.

Nor is the moral inconsistency between Palestinian Arab Christians' and Muslims' traditional definition of the Jews as a nation justly dispossessed, and possessed with no right or restoration or return, even as refugees, and their own claim to exclusive sovereignty and habitation, and later fundamental injustice of their dispossession and justice of restoration and return.

Indeed, Reuters seem to proscribe such a contrast early on when, for instance, they exclude the possibility that Vatican hostility to the Jewish state has any connection to traditional Patristic doctrine that the Jews' proper state is in national dispossession and exile.

This leads to a curious vacuum: while the origins of modern political Zionism are often shown by quotations from early Zionist texts, as well as the Jewish sources and traditions that preceded them, early Palestinian Arab Christian and Islamic nationalism is almost wholly illustrated by secondary references in an Israeli work, with no primary sources cited whatsoever!

Given Herman J's being former director of the Palestinian Human Rights Campaign, this is, again, an extraordinary omission, making it virtually impossible to gauge the influence of Palestinian Arab Christian and Islamic traditions on Palestinians' views of Jews and Jewish nationalism.

All one is shown is the more recent, sophisticated attempts of Palestinian Churches to evolve an anti-Zionist theology that cannot be accused of overt antisemitism.

Here and there one learns interesting facts: the Greek Orthodox dioceses are divided according to Roman Palaestinae Primae, Secundae and Tertiae, revealing the deeper Christian traditional memory's reaching back to Classical antiquity.

The citing of Filastin in occasional 13th century Islamic scholastic usage betrays its almost total extinction by the 10th.

But the more fundamental moral question, I suggest, pressing Roman Catholicism, regards the Christian and Islamic sanctification of Jewish dispossession, the very act that led to the creation of Syria Palaestina, as a provincial entity, in the first place.

While castigating Zionist Jews for the negative effects Palestinian and other Arab Christian and Islamic opposition to Jewish restoration has had on Palestinians, Reuters never ask whether traditional Christian and Islamic sanctification of Jewish dispossession poses a moral dilemma for those Palestinian Arab and other Christians and Muslims who insist that Jewish nationalism must conform to an Absolute Morality. Their assumption, throughout, is that Zionist and other Jews should have placed the good of Palestinian Arab Muslims and Christians before their own.

A similar double standard is their attempt to denationalize Jewish identity despite, in fact, not only most European, Asian and North African but also Palestinian Arab Christians and Muslims' having regarded Jews not only as a nation, or `race', but as a nation historically dispossessed as a divine punishment.

Reuters thus use more nuanced post Enlightenment definitions of `race', `nation' and `people', which scarcely applied to the regions most Israeli Jews originated, including the Arab Islamic world, to penalize Jewish nationalism and nationality.

At least as conspicuous is their attempt to use what they select as the best of Talmudic and Rabbinic Judaism as a stick to beat Israel and Zionism with, with scarcely any reference to the moral implications of traditional Christian and Islamic views, treatments and attitudes towards Jews.

A useful survey is their account of the birth and evolution of North European and American Protestant pro-Jewish Restoration movements, from the 17th century onwards, but they fail to address this from an internal Christian moral point of view: surely, if Patristic doctrine held that the Jews had been dispossessed for a punishment, that implied, at least theoretically, the possibility of Jews' being restored when forgiven?

This last failing arises chiefly because Reuters fail to make any moral assessment of traditional Patristic views of Jews and The Land, preferring it to stand free as though in a moral vacuum, without effect or consequences for Jews.

In short, while promising a scholarly, academic analysis of the role that religion has played in the shaping of the modern Palestinian-Israeli conflict, both brother and sister are clearly driven by a pro-Palestinian apologetic agenda which subjects the Zionist Jewish-Israeli party to a good deal closer scrutiny, moral and historical than their own.

Moreover, their privileging of Roman Catholicism's non ethnic specificity, above Jewish national, Zionist or otherwise, exclusivity, fails to address the birth of Christendom in the Christianizing of Rome, and imperial Roman acts, such as the dispossession of the Jews, both before and after the fact.

A truism, but Reuters both find the mote afar to extract easier than the plank within. In what way, exactly, that serves the higher interests of Absolute Justice, is not entirely clear.

Terribly one-sided.......2005-12-19

Usually, when one does research on a conflict such as the one in the Middle East between the Palestinians and Israelis, you would think that the person who conducts the research would have the integrity to fairly investigate both sides of the conflict. Not just one.

In the case of the Ruethers, they chose to look at just one side of the coin. This is evident as the authors state "In this book we wish to express our concerns for the injustice that has been done to the Palestinian people by both Israel and Western Christian peoples..."

As for the injustices that have been done to the Israelis by the Palestinians, such as repeated terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians, as well as promotion of anti-Semitism, forget it! The authors shamelessly blame all of the above on the Zionists, and even suggest that they are the root cause of all of this.

For example, in reference to the War of Independence in 1948, in which Israel was invaded by the armies of six Arab nations: Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, along with local Arab Palestinian forces, the Ruethers claim that, in a way, the Zionists wished for such event to happen - for the purpose of winning the war and therefore conquer Arab land after each victory. This theory is an insult to the Jews - considering that after the Holocaust, the last thing on a Jew's mind was to engage in a war.

Moving on with this topic, the Ruethers go on to say that although the Israelis faced armies from six countries, Israeli soldiers still outnumbered Arab soldiers, which is why Israel won the war (and therefore should feel guilty for successfully defending itself). Although sources do in fact reveal that the Israelis out-numbered the Arabs in manpower, they also reveal that Arabs outnumbered the Israelis in weapons; tanks, warplanes, machine guns, armoured vehicles, etc., which the authors fail to mention. This demonstrates a biased observation on the part of the Ruethers.

Throughout the book, the Ruethers depict the Zionists and Israelis as intolerant, selfish, dishonest, racist, brutal, hypocritical, corrupted, and greedy, just to name a few. In particular, the Zionists are painted as purely evil. The Palestinians on the other hand, are described as innocent, tolerant people who welcomed the Jews with open arms just to be betrayed and robbed of their land. Obviously, this idea is grossly inconsistent with actual events.

The Ruethers pretty much blame almost everything on the Zionists and Israelis: i.e.: poverty, struggling economy, lack of education and job opportunities, racism, etc, and ignore much of the corruption within the Palestinian leadership (PLO).

Another example of biasness is their analysis of the infamous six-day war. In 1967, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Algeria joined forces together to wage war on Israel for the simple purpose of destroying the Jews and the state of Israel once and for all. However, the Ruethers did not mention this alliance in such context; Instead, they chose to focus on the suffering of the Arabs as a result of Israel's victory.

But what was Israel suppose to do, let itself be defeated so that there would be no casualties on the Arab side? Not to confiscate certain territories such as the Golan Heights so that the Arabs continue to use these high mountains for launching missiles at Israeli civilians? Also, the Ruethers fail to clarify that Israel used these confiscated territories as a bargaining tool for peace negotiations, i.e. returning land in exchange for guaranteed peace. Instead, the Ruethers portrayed the Israelis as thieves and land grabbers

To sum it up, every atrocity that the Palestinians have committed against the Israelis is justified. Whenever the Israelis retaliate, they are condemned with strong language. For instance, the Ruethers write how the Israelis "terrorised" Palestinian communities sometimes without mentioning how, where and when, with no sources either. When the Palestinians attack Israelis, the Ruethers justify it as "uprisings" and also refer to terrorists as "commandos."

Take this example: in the 1972 Olympic games, Palestinian terrorists kidnapped eleven Israeli athletes in Germany and ended up killing all of them. First, the Ruethers do not refer to them as "terrorists" but rather as "Septembrists" since they belonged to the "Black September" movement. Then, the Ruethers claim that the German police force killed most the Israeli hostages. And to add a final insult to injury, the authors criticize Israel's "unjust" retaliation in response to this event.

It is a shame that an expert on anti-Semitism (Rosemary Ruether) would write such garbage. After all, Rosemary Ruether has pointed out in her book, Faith and Fratricide, that many of the early Church fathers' writings about the Jews were anti-Semitic. Ironically enough, Rosemary's own writings in this book are very similar to the anti-Semitic writings of those that she once criticized.

Therefore, by her own definition, this book is anti-Semitic. Again, this is by her own definition, not mine. But then again, her pro-Palestine / anti-Israel husband, Herman Ruether, former acting director for the Palestinian Human Rights Campaign, undoubtedly influenced his wife to use her talents to write this ill one-sided book.

Although this book may be a little out-dated, it is still relevant for anti-Semites.

It is true that Palestinians have been suffering greatly for decades. Both Palestinian and Israelis authorities have crossed the line at many occasions, but to focus on only one group of people and exaggerate the actual events is simply not right.

This book will surely satisfy an anti-Semite. Otherwise, it is not worth reading.

Just plain biased.......2005-09-20

This book claims to be an unbiased assessment of the roots and realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, concentrating primarily on religion. In all these accounts it fails miserably. It is important to examine just a few of the major problems with this polemic.

1) Religion is the opening point of the book, the point being that since Christianity, Judaism, and Islam share some religious ideas that therefore there is hope for peace. First of all this is just plain bunko. Religion, while on the surface a divider, has little to do with the conflict. Just as religion is an excuse used by the protagonists in the Ireland-English conflict it is a similar excuse in the Middle East.

2) The question of human rights and bias: Barely a page goes by in this `unbiased' and `well-balanced' book that doesn't say hateful or discriminatory canards about Israel and Israeli society. One of the major canards is the question of Zionism and anti-Semitism. We are told that Zionism causes anti-Semitism in a `cycle' of violence. Zionism is said to cause anti-Semitism because those who oppose Israel must take their hatred out on all Jews, because Zionism identifies all Jews with Israel. It is interesting that the book doesn't make the same excuses for those who would blame all Muslims for Sept. 11 despite Bin Ladens appeal to link all Muslims to his ideals.

The vitriol given towards Israel is beyond just rhetoric and `anti-Zionism' it is downright shameful and hate speech directed without due observation of facts or reality. Israel is a "militarist, repressive model of a racist, colonial state(page 222)". "World Jewry is caught in a double bind of a Zionist ideology that both feeds and exploits anti-Semitism(page 223)." There is virtually no understanding of the conflict and it begs the question if the writers ever even visited Israel. An entire section is titled "making Palestinians invisible in Israel". We are told Arab villages in Israel are without electricity and that "Villages find it difficult to communicate with other villages"(pg 144). This is pure absurdity. Not one `village' is without power in Israel and since Israel has standard mail services and phone service and computer internet it would be logical they can communicate. The book claims Arab students "study Hebrew classics"(pg 145) and this is a blatant fabrication, Arabs study Arabic and Muslim law in Israel. However the book acknowledges this by then claiming that by forcing Arabs to learn Arabic they are not made part of Hebrew Israeli society. The book can't seem to make a decision on which anti-Israel propaganda Shtick to use.

The Arabs are not `invisible' in Israel. If anything their high standard of living, large single family homes and BMWs are more than visible. The book isn't based on reality, even in the important section where it discusses Arab Christians it fails to mention the more than one dozen anti-Christian riots by Muslim Arabs in recent years(Nazareth 1999, Turan 2000, Mughar 2005, Taiba 2005). This read is complete propaganda, brushing on anti-Semitism in its conclusion.

Seth J. Frantzman

ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, Crisis in the Middle East

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Palestine/Israel: The Long Conflict (Conflict and Crisis in the Post-Cold War World)

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Crisis in the Middle East: for young Palestinians and Israelis, fear and violence are a way of life.(World): An article from: Junior Scholastic

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