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Saeed is a Palestinian informant in Israel whose story is told in the form of letters to an unnamed correspondent after Saeed has escaped to outer space with the help of an extraterrestrial friend. He tries to gain favor by being the best informant, but his bad luck and dim wit guarantee his failure; his life is lived in constant fear, yet he is never without hope.
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This atlas of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict maps the processes and mechanisms behind the modification of the country during the last 100 years both on a policy level and in its physical implementation on the ground. Alongside providing an indispensable reference book on the specificities of the conflict, the atlas also provides lessons on a broader front, particularly in connection with disputes over former colonial territories and natural resources....
7) Omar
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Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with his childhood friends, but it's soon evident that everything he does is for his love of Nadia.
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"With the signing of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, the issue that has colored the history of the Middle East since the half century of armed conflict between Arab and Jew, still continues to threaten international security almost as if Camp David had never happended: it is The Question of Palestine." -- Book Jacket.
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This volume traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for territorial settlement, it also illustrates the move towards finding peace and the efforts to bring the horrors of the fighting to an end through negotiation and proposals for agreed boundaries. With 205 maps, the complete history of the conflict is presented....
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"Vengeance is a story that reads like a novel. It is the account of five ordinary young Israelis, selected to vanish into "the cold" of espionage secrecy - their mission to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for planning the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972"--Inside jacket.
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In this text Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal offer an authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. Palestinians struggled to create themselves as a people from the first revolt of the Arabs in Palestine in 1834 through the British Mandate to the impact of Zionism and the founding of Israel. Their relationship with the Jewish people and the State of Israel has been...
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