San Antonio College Library

"Baruch Kimmerling's new book outlines Sharon's quest to reshape the whole geo-political landscape of the Middle East. He describes how Sharon is committed to politicide, the destruction of the Palestinian political identity, and how he has won the support of powerful elements within Israeli society and the present American administration in order to achieve this. At this time of crisis Kimmerling exposes the brutality of Sharon and his junta's "solutions"...

As Middle-East Bureau Chief of the French public television network France 2, Charles Enderlin has had unequaled access to Palestinian and Israeli leaders and negotiators. In this book he takes the reader along the path that began with the hope of agreement but led only to the ultimate collapse of the peace process. The dramatic account moves between the occupied territories and the negotiation table as it follows the emotional shifts in the conflict...

The author, a member of the Israeli knesset, describes the strong opposition to viewpoints, argues that a Jewish state cannot be a democracy, and discusses the future of Israel

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils...