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The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people--one Israeli, one Palestinian--that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into Israel, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes; their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. Two were turned away, but the third was met at the door by a young woman who invited them in. This act, in the face...

"Amos Oz takes us on a journey through his childhood and adolescence, a quixotic child's-eye view along Jerusalem's wartorn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders. And at the tragic heart of the story is the suicide of his mother, when Amos was twelve-and-a-half...

A memoir of an Israeli leader and autobiography of his daughter plus a gripping account of the great events of Israeli history from the War of Independence to the Camp David Agreement.

Art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is recovering from his last run-in with a Palestinian terrorist when he receives information that al-Qaeda is planning an attack on the Vatican, and he rushes to Rome--racing against time and an unknown enemy in an effort to head-off disaster.

A former Middle East correspondent traces the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, examining its causes and discussing possible solutions that would allow both sides to exist together peacefully.

With coverage of recent events in Israeli politics from the Rabin assassination through the May 1996 elections, this book conveys a sense of life in Israel, the nuances and contradictions of Israeli identity, and the ethnic composition and institutionsl structure of israeli society, as well as israeli foreign political cutlure and the issues that dominate the country's domestic and foreign policy.

After a century of enmity between Jew and Arab, nearly three decades of occupation, and six years of a bloody intifada, Israeli leaders are doing the unthinkable - shaking hands with their Arab adversaries. In Beyond the Promised Land, Pulitzer Prize-winner Glenn Frankel unlocks these last seven turbulent years of civil unrest, political upheaval, and diplomatic crisis, in which many of the long-standing assumptions, beliefs, and practices that lay...