Under Siege

Under Siege
Author: Rashid Khalidi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231535953

Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut. Utilizing unconventional sources and interviews with key officials and diplomats, Khalidi paints a detailed portrait of the siege and ensuing massacres, providing insight into the military pressure experienced by the P.L.O., the war's impact on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, and diplomatic efforts by the United States. A new preface by Khalidi considers developments across the Middle East in the thirty years since the conflict. The preface also cites recently declassified Israeli documents to offer surprising new revelations about the roles and responsibilities of both Israeli leaders and American diplomats in the tragic coda to the war, the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

The Time Tunnel

The Time Tunnel
Author: Galilah Ron-Feder-ʻAmit
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
ISBN:

We entered the cave, and here we were, in a time tunnel. Suddenly we were in another era. I'm sure we seemed like aliens, extraterrestials or UFOs to the people we met ... We are children of the present, with computers, mobiles phones and televisions ... yet for a few hours we went back dozens of years in time.

Israel Under Siege

Israel Under Siege
Author: Raffaella A. Del Sarto
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 162616407X

Introduction : Israel's new foreign policy consensus after the Oslo peace process, 2000-2010 -- Feeling under siege : conflicts, threats, and regional order -- The impact and implications of Israel's foreign policy consensus -- Factors and explanations for the new domestic hegemony -- The return of dissent? 2010 to the present

Drinking the Sea at Gaza

Drinking the Sea at Gaza
Author: Amira Hass
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466884533

In 1993, Amira Aass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story - and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in Gaza's gutted streets and destitute refugee camps. Drinking the Sea at Gaza maps the zones of ordinary Palestinian life. From her friends, Hass learns the secrets of slipping across sealed borders and stealing through night streets emptied by curfews. She shares Gaza's early euphoria over the peace process and its subsequent despair as hope gives way to unrelenting hardship. But even as Hass charts the griefs and humiliations of the Palestinians, she offers a remarkable portrait of a people not brutalized but eloquent, spiritually resilient, bleakly funny, and morally courageous. Full of testimonies and stories, facts and impressions, Drinking the Sea at Gaza makes an urgent claim on our humanity. Beautiful, haunting, and profound, it will stand with the great works of wartime reportage, from Michael Herr's Dispatches to Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart.

Israel under Siege

Israel under Siege
Author: Raffaella A. Del Sarto
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1626164088

Raffaella A. Del Sarto examines the creation of Israel's neo-revisionist consensus about security threats and regional order, which took hold of Israeli politics and society after 2000 and persists today. The failed Oslo peace process and the trauma of the Second Palestinian Intifada triggered this shift to the right; conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah and the inflammatory rhetoric of Iranian President Ahmadinejad additionally contributed to the creation of a general sense of being under siege. While Israel faces real security threats, Israeli governments have engaged in the politics of insecurity, promoting and amplifying a sense of besiegement. Lively political debate has been replaced by a general acceptance of the no-compromise approach to security and the Palestinians. The neo-revisionist right, represented by Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud, has turned Israel away from the peace process and pushes maximalist territorial ambitions. But they have failed to offer a vision for an end to conflict, and there has been little debate about whether or not the hardline policies toward the region are counterproductive. Del Sarto explains this disappearance of dissent and examines the costs of Israel’s policies. She concludes that Israel’s feeling of being under siege has become entrenched, a two-state solution with the Palestinians is highly unlikely for the foreseeable future, and Israel’s international isolation is likely to increase. Del Sarto’s analysis of this tense political situation will interest scholars and students of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East Studies, and International Relations.

Cities Under Siege

Cities Under Siege
Author: Stephen Graham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9781844673155

A powerful expose of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life.

The Siege of Tel Aviv

The Siege of Tel Aviv
Author: Hesh Kestin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2019-07-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578510514

Iran leads five armies in a brutal victory over Israel, which ceases to exist. Within hours, its leaders are rounded up and murdered, the IDF is routed, and the country's six million Jews concentrated in Tel Aviv, which becomes a starving ghetto. While the US and the West sit by, Israel's enemies prepare to kill off the entire population.On the eve of genocide, Tel Aviv makes one last attempt to save itself, as an Israeli businessman, a gangster, and a cross-dressing fighter pilot put together a daring plan to counterattack. Will it succeed?

Siegebreakers

Siegebreakers
Author: Justin Podur
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-11-13T00:00:00Z
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1773631780

Under the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together, they learn of a plan to unite the disparate Palestinian factions and break Israel’s siege. Unknown to them, Ari, a brilliant Israeli spy, has decided that his conscience can no longer allow him to participate in the starvation of Gaza. A double agent whose every move is under mounting suspicion, Ari reaches out to the American contractors who trained him with a secret plan. As they all struggle to break the siege, they face the wrath of the Israeli military machine.

The Rise of the Israeli Right

The Rise of the Israeli Right
Author: Colin Shindler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2015-08-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521193788

This book traces the history of the Israeli Right since its inception and its struggle to gain power. It looks at the political ideas that are its bedrock and how it has been the dominant force in Israeli politics for nearly four decades.