Bestsellers
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- By: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
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Outstanding - Should be required reading
- By Steve Siegmund on 03-19-25
By: Omar El Akkad
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- By: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A landmark history of 100 years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history....
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Thoroughly Researched and Evidence-Based, but...
- By K on 05-24-21
By: Rashid Khalidi
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The Man Who Would Be King
- Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
- By: Karen Elliott House
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on exclusive interviews, an eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a central Middle East power broker.
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An interesting review of Saudi Arabia’s quest for modernity
- By Daynas on 07-23-25
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Our Women on the Ground
- Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
- By: Zahra Hankir, Christiane Amanpour
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour....
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Compelling stories everyone should hear
- By K.Ozcelik on 06-28-23
By: Zahra Hankir, and others
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The War of Return
- How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace
- By: Einat Wilf, Adi Schwartz
- Narrated by: Einat Wilf
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."
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Did someone edit this ?
- By KV on 06-16-25
By: Einat Wilf, and others
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The Last Punisher
- A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
- By: Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke, Lincy Lacz
- Narrated by: Timothy Phillips
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Last Punisher is a bold, no-holds-barred first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team Three....
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Good story, poorly read
- By Dusty on 09-03-16
By: Kevin Lacz, and others
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- By: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.
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Outstanding - Should be required reading
- By Steve Siegmund on 03-19-25
By: Omar El Akkad
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- By: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A landmark history of 100 years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history....
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Thoroughly Researched and Evidence-Based, but...
- By K on 05-24-21
By: Rashid Khalidi
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The Man Who Would Be King
- Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
- By: Karen Elliott House
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on exclusive interviews, an eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a central Middle East power broker.
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An interesting review of Saudi Arabia’s quest for modernity
- By Daynas on 07-23-25
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Our Women on the Ground
- Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
- By: Zahra Hankir, Christiane Amanpour
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour....
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Compelling stories everyone should hear
- By K.Ozcelik on 06-28-23
By: Zahra Hankir, and others
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The War of Return
- How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace
- By: Einat Wilf, Adi Schwartz
- Narrated by: Einat Wilf
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."
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Did someone edit this ?
- By KV on 06-16-25
By: Einat Wilf, and others
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The Last Punisher
- A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
- By: Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke, Lincy Lacz
- Narrated by: Timothy Phillips
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Last Punisher is a bold, no-holds-barred first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team Three....
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Good story, poorly read
- By Dusty on 09-03-16
By: Kevin Lacz, and others
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
- Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Davis, Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world....
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Injustice anywhere is Injustice everywhere
- By Jarucia Jaycox on 05-05-17
By: Angela Y. Davis
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Ten Myths About Israel
- By: Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.
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excellent explanations and points of view
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-25
By: Ilan Pappe
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The Lemon Tree
- By: Sandy Tolan
- Narrated by: Sandy Tolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel....
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Steeping The Lemon Tree
- By Faithfull Fan on 04-11-18
By: Sandy Tolan
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Jerusalem
- The Biography
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations....
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In-depth and gripping history of 3,000 years
- By A reader on 12-16-11
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The Gates of Gaza
- A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands
- By: Amir Tibon
- Narrated by: Amir Tibon
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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On the morning of Saturday, October 7, Amir Tibon and his wife were awakened by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a progressive Israeli settlement along the Gaza border. Soon, they were holding their two young daughters in the family’s reinforced safe room.
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Fascinating and enlightening
- By A little purple on 11-05-24
By: Amir Tibon
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Rich with anecdote, history, analysis, and autobiography, From Beirut to Jerusalem will continue to shape how we see the Middle East for many years to come.
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A dated but still relevant take on the Israel/ Palestine conflict
- By Anonymous User on 05-14-24
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On Palestine
- By: Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Operation Protective Edge, Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater....
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Excellent Introduction/101 Level Book
- By Anonymous User on 10-24-23
By: Noam Chomsky, and others
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Black Flags
- The Rise of ISIS
- By: Joby Warrick
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents....
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So much learned
- By mike flavin on 02-11-16
By: Joby Warrick
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- By: Hisham Matar
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison....
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Touching memoir. Consider hard copy
- By Joschka Philipps on 02-22-18
By: Hisham Matar
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Genocide Bad
- Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
- By: Sim Kern
- Narrated by: Sim Kern
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide Bad dismantles Zionist propaganda and maps a course towards collective liberation in ten unapologetic essays.
By: Sim Kern
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Iran's Grand Strategy
- A Political History
- By: Vali Nasr
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggression and internal dissolution.
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well detailed history of modern Iran
- By Fr. S. on 06-28-25
By: Vali Nasr
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Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
- By: Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 21 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen?
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Everything you need to know about the Israel Lobby
- By Paul Christopher Giacobbe on 06-06-25
By: Ilan Pappe
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The Palestine Laboratory
- How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
- By: Antony Loewenstein
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers a largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.
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Important but badly edited
- By Wouter on 05-17-25
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Gaza in Crisis
- Reflections on the US-Israeli War Against the Palestinians
- By: Ilan Pappe, Noam Chomsky, Frank Barat - editor
- Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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This "succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays [presents] sober and unflinching analysis" of Gaza's humanitarian crisis (Publishers Weekly).
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Excellent
- By Waleed Y. A. Sarhan on 04-29-25
By: Ilan Pappe, and others
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The Afghanistan Papers
- A Secret History of the War
- By: Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: Defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11....
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Eye-Opening Book
- By David J Ray on 09-01-21
By: Craig Whitlock, and others
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Target Tehran
- How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East
- By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States.
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Couldn’t walk away !
- By ADAM on 01-10-24
By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, and others
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The Question of Palestine
- By: Edward W. Said, Saree Makdisi
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever.
By: Edward W. Said, and others
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From Hamas to America
- My Story of Defying Terror, Facing the Unimaginable, and Finding Redemption in the Land of Opportunity
- By: James Becket, Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Narrated by: Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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From Hamas to America is a gripping memoir that follows the son of Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan, as he breaks away from his culture’s practice of terrorism to becoming a double-agent for Israel to finally fleeing to America and becoming a US citizen, and ultimately finding peace.
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Please avoid at all cost!
- By MD on 07-05-25
By: James Becket, and others
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
- Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
- By: Nathan Thrall
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.
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We Must Look Deeper into this Struggle
- By Amazon Customer on 10-22-23
By: Nathan Thrall
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Bibi
- By: Anshel Pfeffer
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
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Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all of his own making, and may soon be ousted from the office he has held longer than any prior Israeli prime minister outside of David Ben Gurion....
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Very biased.
- By Anonymous User on 10-14-22
By: Anshel Pfeffer
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America's War for the Greater Middle East
- A Military History
- By: Andrew J. Bacevich
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Andrew J. Bacevich
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East....
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A Key to Understanding the US Need for Perp. War
- By Darwin8u on 05-01-16
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The Genius of Israel
- The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
- By: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
- Narrated by: Dan Senor
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking?....
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The richness of the Israeli culture and the brilliance of the IDF.
- By Jandee Camozzi on 12-06-23
By: Dan Senor, and others
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Oct 7
- The War Against Hamas Through the Eyes of an Israeli Commando Officer
- By: Capt. Elkana (Kuno) Cohen
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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On the morning of October 7, 2023, Israelis awoke to a harrowing reality. Not only were hundreds of rockets being launched from Gaza into Israeli population centers, but the security border had also been breached by several thousand Hamas terrorists.
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Love thy neighbor
- By june on 03-06-25
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Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- By: Steve Coll
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Steve Coll tells the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11....
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Slow At Times But Always Horrifying And Engaging
- By Gillian on 02-20-18
By: Steve Coll