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Enemies and Neighbors

Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

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Enemies and Neighbors

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
20th Century History & Theory Israel & Palestine Judaism Middle East Modern Political Science Politics & Government World War Israeli-Palestinian conflict Ottoman Empire King Crusade Imperialism Refugee Royalty Holocaust
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Broad-based... yet with fascinating detail... the roots of the conflict... let's me see the current war from an in depth perspective

Sweeping historical perspective

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Black provides an excellent overview of the complicated situation in Israel. He makes it abundantly clear that. Cooperation and compromise are the only way forward.

An excellent review of a complicated situation

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sometimes histories of israel & palestine can be very good but focused on one particular issue—the mossad, the influence of america, the development of the plo, so it can be hard to know what one is getting into. this is a great general history of the conflict up until the very recent past.

very thorough general history of region

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Informative but too long, too detailed and lacking any attempt at summarizing or building a narrative - more like a stream of consciousness “here’s what people did and said this year, here’s what people did and said next year”. Also weirdly leaves out major historical events (the holocaust is barely mentioned?) as though they’re not relevant or the reader should already know about them.

Informative but difficult to read

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If you’re looking for a true and balanced account of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, this is the book for you. It sheds light on many of the intractable issues facing the parties.

Outstanding a must read

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the narrator speaks too fast,as a non native speaker,i found it was challenging to follow without referring to the book. And the narrator intonation is as stiff as a robot.

dry narration

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the detailed history stops about 2016, so it leaves out a lot of Netanyahu, Trump.

thorough if dated

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The author seems neutral and unbiased on a very polarizing subject. Lots of information to absorb on a decades long conflict

Informative but Dry

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Worth a listen. The Israelis will be a minority in Israel in 50 years. Then what

Long & detailed

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This book describes in detail all the elements of the conflict between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine.

Excellent Description of the Battle for Palestine

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