Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Israel write by Noa Tishby. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A personal, spirited, and concise chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most fascinating countries in the world-Israel"--
The Invention of the Land of Israel
The Invention of the Land of Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of the Land of Israel write by Shlomo Sand. This book was released on 2012-11-20. The Invention of the Land of Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.
Apartheid Israel
Apartheid Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apartheid Israel write by Sean Jacobs. This book was released on 2015-11-02. Apartheid Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice in Palestine.
Ella's Trip to Israel
Ella's Trip to Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ella's Trip to Israel write by Vivian Bonnie Newman. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Ella's Trip to Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excited Ella and her stuffed monkey, Koofi, take a family trip to Israel. Ella enjoys visiting all thefamous places in Israel, but Koofi experiences Israel in his own special way!
Fortress Israel
Fortress Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fortress Israel write by Patrick Tyler. This book was released on 2012-09-18. Fortress Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Once in the military system, Israelis never fully exit," writes the prizewinning journalist Patrick Tyler in the prologue to Fortress Israel. "They carry the military identity for life, not just through service in the reserves until age forty-nine . . . but through lifelong expectations of loyalty and secrecy." The military is the country to a great extent, and peace will only come, Tyler argues, when Israel's military elite adopt it as the national strategy. Fortress Israel is an epic portrayal of Israel's martial culture—of Sparta presenting itself as Athens. From Israel's founding in 1948, we see a leadership class engaged in an intense ideological struggle over whether to become the "light unto nations," as envisioned by the early Zionists, or to embrace an ideology of state militarism with the objective of expanding borders and exploiting the weaknesses of the Arabs. In his first decade as prime minister, David Ben-Gurion conceived of a militarized society, dominated by a powerful defense establishment and capable of defeating the Arabs in serial warfare over many decades. Bound by self-reliance and a stern resolve never to forget the Holocaust, Israel's military elite has prevailed in war but has also at times overpowered Israel's democracy. Tyler takes us inside the military culture of Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, introducing us to generals who make decisions that trump those of elected leaders and who disdain diplomacy as appeasement or surrender. Fortress Israel shows us how this martial culture envelops every family. Israeli youth go through three years of compulsory military service after high school, and acceptance into elite commando units or air force squadrons brings lasting prestige and a network for life. So ingrained is the martial outlook and identity, Tyler argues, that Israelis are missing opportunities to make peace even when it is possible to do so. "The Zionist movement had survived the onslaught of world wars, the Holocaust, and clashes of ideology," writes Tyler, "but in the modern era of statehood, Israel seemed incapable of fielding a generation of leaders who could adapt to the times, who were dedicated to ending . . . [Israel's] isolation, or to changing the paradigm of military preeminence." Based on a vast array of sources, declassified documents, personal archives, and interviews across the spectrum of Israel's ruling class, FortressIsrael is a remarkable story of character, rivalry, conflict, and the competing impulses for war and for peace in the Middle East.
