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  • Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
  • Written by: Ian Black
  • Narrated by: Michael Page
  • Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Enemies and Neighbors

Written by: Ian Black
Narrated by: Michael Page
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In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today. Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral histories to his own vivid on-the-ground reporting - to recreate the major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of the modern age from both sides.

In the third year of World War I, the seed was planted for an inevitable clash: Jerusalem Governor Izzat Pasha surrendered to British troops and Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued a fateful document sympathizing with the establishment of "a national home for the Jewish people". The chronicle takes us through the Arab rebellion of the 1930s; the long shadow of the Nazi Holocaust; the war of 1948 - culminating in Israel's independence and the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe); the "cursed victory" of the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Palestinian re-awakening; the first and second Intifadas; the Oslo Accords; and other failed peace negotiations and continued violence up to 2017.

©2017 Ian Black (P)2018 Tantor

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One sided book. Don’t bother.

Fairly one sided book. I returned it when I got to the year 1938 with the author only focusing on one side of the violence with barely any mention of the haganah violence or with justifications.

Read a Israel and Palestine: The Complete History by Ian Carroll and you’ll quickly realize how one sided this book really is. That’s a much better option if you truly want a balanced assessment.

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Very informative.

Very informative book containing several details which are usually ommited in the history of the conflict.
I see some reviews stating that it is one sided, an opinion held by those who expect a certain biased narrative.
The book offers insight often overlooked or simply ignored by other writers on the subjects, giving a face to those who have lost their homes and land and continue to suffer to this day.

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