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Can we talk baout Israel? : a guide for the curious, confused, and conflicted / Daniel Sokatch ; illustrated by Christopher Noxon.
Van Pelt Library DS119.7 .S62598 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sokatch, Daniel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Israel--Relations--Palestine.
- Israel.
- Palestine--Relations--Israel.
- Palestine.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 450 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- monochrome
- illustration
- map
- Edition:
- Revised and updated.
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Israel-and its conflict with the Palestinians-is one of the hardest things in the world to understand, let alone talk about. And if talking about Israel has long been divisive, contentious, and controversial, it got a whole lot harder after the horrific events of October 7, 2023 and the catastrophic violence that followed. Daniel Sokatch regularly deals with this challenge as head of the New Israel Fund, an organization dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis, not just Jews. As Sokatch asks, is there any other topic aboutwhich so many intelligent, educated, and sophisticated people express such strongly and passionately held convictions, and about which they actually know so little?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Jews and Israel : where do we start?
- The Zionist idea : organizing, immigrating, building (1860s-1917)
- Wait, there were people here : what about the Palestinians?
- The British are coming : World War I, the Balfour Declaration, and the establishment of the British Mandate (1917-39)
- Israel and the Nakba : independence and catastrophe (1947-49)
- The dispossessed
- The fifties : state building and Suez
- The big bang : the 1967 War and the reality it created
- Roller coaster : from the Yom Kippur War to the First Intifada (1968-87)
- Shaking it off : the First Intifada
- Israel is waiting for Rabin
- As the clever hopes expire : the end of Oslo
- The bulldozer's last surprise
- The democracy recession
- The map is not the territory
- Israel's Arab citizens : shared society or segregation?
- A love story? Israel and the American Jewish Community
- The settlements
- What we talk about when we talk about BDS
- The A-word
- The other A-word
- Red cows in the heartland : Israel and Armageddon
- The case for hope
- The 'change coalition' (June 2021-December 2023)
- Israel at the abyss : the attack on democracy (December 2022-October 2023)
- Terror and devastation : October 7 and the Gaza War
- The war goes regional : Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran
- Trump redux
- The law of unintended consequences and the fall of Assad (November-December 2024)
- The end is not the end.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781639738670
- 1639738673
- OCLC:
- 1518919570
- Publisher Number:
- 90102767638
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