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Title: The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict by Walter Laqueur, Barry Rubin ISBN: 0-14-029713-8 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent source of info
Comment: The book is simply a collection of documents on the Arab-Israeli conflict, dating back to the British Mandate in Palestine. The editors included all the important papers such as the Balflour Declaration, the "White Paper," various UN declarations, and speeches made by both Arab and Israeli leaders. The latest documents it contains are those covering the Camp David meetings between President Clinton, barak, and Arafat near the end of Clinton's presidency. While it is not a history of the conflict (merely a collection of historical documents), it certainly can provide you with plenty of info on the subject.
Rating: 5
Summary: A key to understand the Middle East
Comment: From the Manifesto of the Bilu (1882) and Theodore Herzl's "Der Judenstaat" (The Jewish State) published in 1896, to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yassir Arafat speeches accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1994, this book contains an unique collection of documents that will provide the reader with a better understanding of the Middle East and the conflict between Arabs and Israelis. This last, and fifth, edition, published in 1995 adds new documents covering the most significant events of the 1990-1994 period, including the famous Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles signed in the White House in September of 1993, and although the reader will not find in this edition, any document of later events, this book, already a classic, maintains its place as a documentary history of the Arab-Israeli conflict that is indispensable to understand current Middle East affairs. As they have done with previous editions, historians and Middle East specialist Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin present a selection of key documents that reflect the viewpoints of all involved parties in this dramatic history. A great reference book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost the Perfect Reference
Comment: I will not spend a lot of time writing about how valuable a reference this is - the other reviewers on this site have already more than done it justice. Aside from the relative lack of material on early Zionism (also pointed out by one of the other reviewers), this book has most if not all of the relevant documents. I have only one major criticism (the reason I gave the book four stars instead of 5): the almost complete lack of information about the original sources. Apart from a one-liner preceding each document, no information is given regarding 1) the citation of the original work, including page numbers, where appropriate; 2) the language in which the original work was written; 3) if the work was not written in English, credit for the translation, the date thereof, etc. While these may not be of interest to the casual reader, to anyone doing research in the field, if only for a college paper, these details are critical. Furthermore, in an area as controversial as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the ability to trace documents back to the original and verify translations is everything.
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Title: Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 by Benny Morris ISBN: 0679744754 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: A History of Israel : From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (Second Edition, Revised and Updated) by HOWARD M. SACHAR ISBN: 0679765638 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz ISBN: 047146502X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies) by Mark A. Tessler ISBN: 0253208734 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israel Conflict, Second Edition by Mitchell G. Bard ISBN: 0971294518 Publisher: A I C E Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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