Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001-Quality Guarantee

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New York Times Notable Book

At a time when the Middle East has come closer to achieving peace than ever before,eminent Israeli historian Benny Morris explodes the myths cherished by both sidesto present an epic history of Zionist-Arab relations over the past 120 years.

Tracingthe roots of political Zionism back to the pogroms of Russia and the Dreyfus Affair,Morris describes the gradual influx of Jewish settlers into Palestine and the impactthey had on the Arab the Holocaust, the first Arab-Israeliwar of 1948 resulted in the establishment of the State of Israel, but it also shatteredPalestinian Arab society and gave rise to a massive refugee offersdistinctive accounts of each of the subsequent Israeli-Arab wars and details thesporadic peace efforts in between, culminating in the peace process initiated bythe Rabin a new afterword to the Vintage edition, he examines EhudBarak’s leadership, the death of President Assad of Syria, and Israel’s withdrawalfrom Lebanon, and the recent renewed conflict with the Palestinians. Studded withilluminating portraits of the major protagonists,
Righteous Victims provides an authoritativerecord of the middle east and its continuing struggle toward peace.