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Israel's Quest for Recognition and Acceptance in Asia
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 58.95This title represents a comprehensive study of Israel's attempts to build diplomatic relations with countries on the Asian continent. The author argues that, despite the persistence of the Arab Israeli conflict, the Israeli Foreign Ministry was remarkably successful in gaining recognition in most Asian countries. He provides an overview of Israel's... more...
Arafat and the Dream of Palestine
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 27.99A unique living history of Palestine by Bassam Abu Sharif, one of Yasser Arafat?s closest advisors and the man Time magazine once dubbed the ?face of terror.? more...
Seeking Mandela
Temple University Press 2005; US$ 27.95The ongoing violence, despair and paralysis among Israelis and Palestinians resemble the gloomy period in South Africa during the late 1980s. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley show that these analogies with South Africa can be applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for two purposes: to showcase South Africa as an inspiring model for a negotiated... more...
The Rise of Israel
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95The state of Israel is one of the most controversial countries in the world. Yet, its unique creation and rise to power in 1948 has not been adequately explained either by its friends (mainstream Zionists) nor by its detractors (Arabists and post-Zionists). Using a variety of comparative methodologies; from contrasting the Jewish state to other... more...
Jewish People
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 160.00Contributors to this book include Anson F. Rainey, Shmuel Safrai, Haim Beinart, and Evyatar Friesel.This is the first atlas of its kind to document in such great detail the turbulent history of the Jewish people. A work of prodigious and meticulous scholarship by some of Israel's most brilliant scholars, this atlas portrays every aspect of Jewish... more...
Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95As the Palestinian/Israeli conflict continues to be of major importance in the Middle East, this book employs a new agency approach to understanding the conflict, examining the unprecedented challenge mounted by Palestinian insurgents to Israeli military rule in the West Bank and Gaza between 1987 and 1992. In particular the book discusses how the... more...
Britain, Israel and the United States, 1955-1958
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 190.00Orna Almog examines the Anglo-Israeli relationship from 1955 to 1958 in the context of the Cold War, superpower rivalry and political upheaval in the Middle East. The author reveals how the British foreign service mistook Israeli thinking for psychological weakness and made errors of judgement. more...
What Does a Jew Want?
Columbia University Press 2011; US$ 21.99"In this book Udi Aloni, causing a power fault in the ruling liberal attitude by way of short-circuiting different levels of ideology, art, and thought; rewrites the Oedipus myth and rejects liberal Zionism. Who but Aloni can combine the tremendous poetic power of creating new myths with the perspicuous mind of a cold theoretician? Who but Aloni can... more...
ha-chidah me-achore ha-beroshim (Mystery behind the Cypresses)
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 112.00Irit Amit-Cohen explores the riddle behind disappearing citrus orchards and plantations from Israel?s coastal scenery. The book reveals the biographies of entrepreneurs who came to Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s. Exposing the uniqueness of the plantation companies, describing the figures involved in them and analyzing their contribution to forming... more...
Britain, Israel and Anglo-Jewry 1949-57
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 180.00This book focuses on the bilateral and multilateral relations between Britain, the 'former proprietor' and Israel, the 'successor state', during the period following their armed clash in January 1949, to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza and the Sinai in March 1957. It highlights the formulation of foreign policy decisions in Britain and Israel; Britain's... more...









