Kategoria BISAC: History >> Middle East - Israel & Palestine

"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...

Despite the atmosphere of fear, Baskin...

This volume offers readers a series of snapshots of the Middle Eastern conflict from the late 1970s to the present, and takes them along the ups and downs of the still-unfinished peace process. Each article offers Professor Herb Kelman's distinctive take on the issues, and focuses on the conflicting parties' perceptions, the obstacles to peace, and the political and psychological conditions needed for progress towards peace and reconciliation. The articles are of much more than historical or academic interest. Some are eerily prescient, predicting what would happen if negotiations of the...

This is the third and final volume in a series of books which collectively present in detail the work of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative, or JOCI, a major Canadian-led Track Two diplomatic effort, undertaken between 2003 and 2014. The aim of the Initiative was to find sustainable governance solutions for the Old City of Jerusalem, arguably the most sensitive and intractable of the final status issues dividing Palestinians and Israelis.

This book examines the complex and often contentious issues that arise from the overlapping claims to the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, the...

This is the third and final volume in a series of books which collectively present in detail the work of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative, or JOCI, a major Canadian-led Track Two diplomatic effort, undertaken between 2003 and 2014. The aim of the Initiative was to find sustainable governance solutions for the Old City of Jerusalem, arguably the most sensitive and intractable of the final status issues dividing Palestinians and Israelis.

This book examines the complex and often contentious issues that arise from the overlapping claims to the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, the...

Der vierte Band des Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae umfasst die Inschriften der Gebiete Iudaeas und Idumaeas von der Zeit Alexanders bis zum Ende der byzantinischen Herrschaft im 7. Jahrhundert in allen Sprachen, die damals fur Inschriften verwendet wurden: Griechisch, Latein, Hebraisch, Aramaisch, Samaritanisch, Christlich-Palastinisches Aramaisch, Georgisch, Armenisch. Die mehr als 1300 Texte sind geographisch nach den Fundorten in etwa von Lydda im Nordwesten bis Masada im Sudosten geordnet. Der Band erfasst u.a. Stadte wie Bethlehem, En Gedi, Eleutheropolis, Emmaus, Hebron,...

The autobiography of Rabbi Robert L. Samuels, a visionary who had a tremendous impact on Israel, and fused Zionism and Progressive Judaism. In the words of Rabbi Charles Kroloff, "Bob's vision of the Leo Baeck School: a comprehensive educational center that would bring together children of all ethnic and economic backgrounds, educating them to be informed citizens committed to the finest progressive values of Judaism and humanity. He was not only a visionary, but he knew how to transform vision into reality." And in the words of Rabbi Michael Marmur, "I can still hear him now: What did you...

Kubic describes his escape to the US Zone in West Germany, his life in the Displaced Persons camps, and his arrival in 1950s America, where he worked as a butler and factory worker and served in a US Army...