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Boycotting Israel is Wrong
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Boycotting Israel is Wrong

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-01
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  • Publisher: NewSouth

This is the first progressive book to argue that the BDS movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions) against Israel is the wrong way to broker peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; rather, it argues that peace will come ony when both Israelis’ and Palestinians’ legitimate claims to statehood are recognised – by both sides. The BDS movement (boycott, divestment, sanctions) against Israel has gained traction and publicity worldwide for a decade. Yet here, Philip Mendes and Nick Dyrenfurth – two politically progressive commentators – argue that BDS is far too blunt an instrument to use in such a complex political situation. Instead, they critically analyse the key arguments for and against BDS, and propose a solution that supports Israel’s existence and Palestinian rights to a homeland, urging mutual compromise and concessions from both sides.

From Schlemiel to Sabra
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

From Schlemiel to Sabra

In From Schlemiel to Sabra Philip Hollander examines how masculine ideals and images of the New Hebrew man shaped the Israeli state. In this innovative book, Hollander uncovers the complex relationship that Jews had with masculinity, interrogating narratives depicting masculinity in the new state as a transition from weak, feminized schlemiels to robust, muscular, and rugged Israelis. Turning to key literary texts by S. Y. Agnon, Y. H. Brenner, L. A. Arieli, and Aharon Reuveni, Hollander reveals how gender and sexuality were intertwined to promote a specific Zionist political agenda. A Zionist masculinity grounded in military prowess could not only protect the new state but also ensure its procreative needs and future. Self-awareness, physical power, fierce loyalty to the state and devotion to the land, humility, and nurture of the young were essential qualities that needed to be cultivated in migrants to the state. By turning to the early literature of Zionist Palestine, Hollander shows how Jews strove to construct a better Jewish future.

Israel and Palestine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 69

Israel and Palestine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-05-29
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

This book is a collection of pictures taken by the author, Philip Gupte during his travel in Israel and Palestine. This is his 4th book and Authorhouse’s 3rd book.

In Search of 'Ancient Israel'
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

In Search of 'Ancient Israel'

The appearance of In Search of 'Ancient Israel' generated a still-raging controversy about the historical reality of what biblical scholars call 'Ancient Israel'. But its argument not only takes in the problematic relationship between Iron Age Palestinian archaeology and the biblical 'Israel' but also outlines the processes that created the literature of the Hebrew bible-the ideological matrix, the scribal milieu, and the cultural adoption of a national literary archive as religious scripture as part of the process of creating 'Judaisms'. As such, in this volume Philip R. Davies challenges the whole spectrum of scholarly consensus about the origins of 'Israel' and its scriptures, in a manner that is both learned and accessible. For this new edition Davies has provided a new extended introduction, in which he considers how the debate has raged since the book was first published, and in which he repositions this classic work within the present scholarly context.

Repairing the U.S.-Israel Relationship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 59

Repairing the U.S.-Israel Relationship

"The U.S.-Israel relationship is in trouble," warn Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellows Robert D. Blackwill and Philip H. Gordon in a new Council Special Report, Repairing the U.S.-Israel Relationship. Significant policy differences over issues in the Middle East, as well as changing demographics and politics within both the United States and Israel, have pushed the two countries apart. Blackwill, a former senior official in the Bush administration, and Gordon, a former senior official in the Obama administration, call for "a deliberate and sustained effort by policymakers and opinion leaders in both countries" to repair the relationship and to avoid divisions "that no one who cares about Israel's security or America's values and interests in the Middle East should want."

Encyclopedia of the Palestinians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 705

Encyclopedia of the Palestinians

Presents the history of modern Palestine and biographies of important Palestinians.

Boycotting Israel Is Wrong
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Boycotting Israel Is Wrong

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This is the first progressive book to argue that the BDS movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions) against Israel is the wrong way to broker peace in the Israeli - Palestinian conflict; rather, it argues that peace will come ony when both Israelis' and Palestinians' legitimate claims to statehood are recognised - by both sides. The BDS movement (boycott, divestment, sanctions) against Israel has gained traction and publicity worldwide for a decade. Yet here, Philip Mendes and Nick Dyrenfurth - two politically progressive commentators - argue that BDS is far too blunt an instrument to use in such a complex political situation. Instead, they critically analyse the key arguments for and against BDS, and propose a solution that supports Israel's existence and Palestinian rights to a homeland, urging mutual compromise and concessions from both sides.

Operation Shylock
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Operation Shylock

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-23
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  • Publisher: Random House

'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe. Roth decides to stop him, even if that means impersonating the impersonator. Operation Shylock is at once spy story, political thriller, meditation on identity and unfathomable journey through a volatile, frightening middle-east.

The Hope of Israel; What Is It?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

The Hope of Israel; What Is It?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-07-25
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book contains Philip Mauro's detailed examination of scripture, in support of an argument against those who believe that Christ's promises are not yet fulfilled and have yet to come. The Hope of Israel gains its title from the fact that many dispensationalist Christians believe that some future event or fulfilment of Biblical lore will occur within Israel. Seeking to prove such assertions false and wrongheaded, Mauro proceeds to methodically and carefully cite passages within the Old and New Testaments which specifically concern the land of Israel. Prophecies such as Ezekiel and the warnings of God to humankind through Moses receive much discussion. The New Testament figure Paul's interpretation of the Old Testament prophecies on Israel are also cited in support of Mauro's hypothesis, which asserts notions of a nation of Israel being a fulfilment of Old Testament lore are ill-founded.

Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Postcolonial theory is one of the main frameworks for thinking about the world and acting to change the world. Arising in academia and reshaping humanities and social sciences disciplines, postcolonial theory argues that our ideas about foreigners, ‘the other,’ particularly our negative ideas about them, are determined not by a true will to understand, but rather by our desire to conquer, dominate, and exploit them. According to postcolonial theory, the cause of poverty, tyranny, and misery in the world, and of failed societies around the world, is Euro-American imperialism and colonialism. Previously published as a special issue of Israel Affairs, this work examines and challenges postc...