By Ben Halpern

Chaim Weizmann, steeped within the folks tradition of the East eu shtetl and the humanistic technology of vital and Western Europe, was once the ambassador of the Jewish humans to the English-speaking international. Louis D. Brandeis, nonetheless, used to be referred to as the genuine exponent of Anglo-American civic tradition who gave his management at a serious second to the yank and global Jewish group. A conflict of Heroes stories the clash among those dominant personalities, every one of whom has been hailed through dedicated fans because the hero of a very important period in contemporary Jewish background. Halpern units the assembly, collaboration, and sharp clash among those males opposed to the moving historical past of an international at warfare and the shaky travail of revolution and reconstruction within the early twentieth century. via a comparability of 2 exemplary figures in Jewish management, Halpern paints a charming portrait of 20th-century Zionism and illuminates the advanced relationships among leaders and the general public and among Jewish nationalism and its prolonged setting.

By Abraham David

By Meron Benvenisti

''Now that i'm seventy years of age, it's my prerogative to provide a summing up,'' says Meron Benvenisti, the world over recognized writer and columnist, Jerusalem local, and scion of Israel's founders. Born in Palestine in 1934 to a Sephardic father and an Ashkenazi mom, Benvenisti has loved an strange vantage element from which to contemplate his homeland's conflicts and controversies. all through his lengthy and provocative profession as a pupil, an elected authentic, and a revered journalist, he has remained in detail concerned with Israel's social and political improvement. half memoir and half political polemic, Son of the Cypresses threads Benvenisti's personal tale throughout the tale of Israel. the result's a shiny, sharply drawn eyewitness account of pre-state Jerusalem and Israel's early years. He memorably units the scene through recalling his father's emotional trip from Jewish Salonika in 1913 to Palestine, with all its attendant euphoria and frustration, and his father's pioneer commitment to inculcating Israeli early life with a ''native's'' attachment to the place of birth. In describing the colourful and vigorous Jerusalem within which he grew up, Benvenisti recollects the various demanding situations confronted via new Jewish immigrants, who chanced on themselves not just in clash with the Arab inhabitants but in addition with one another as Sephardim and Ashkenazim. He revisits his personal public disagreements with either Zionists and Palestinians and stocks indelible stories equivalent to his boyhood reviews of the 1948 conflict. In remembering his existence as an Israeli sabra, Benvenisti bargains a brilliant checklist of the old roots of the clash that persists this present day.

By David J. Whittaker

Clash and Reconciliation within the modern global offers a concise, unique and multi-faceted creation to the research of contemporary clash events. utilizing 8 case- experiences, from 4 continents: Yugoslavia, Israel, Northern eire, South Africa, El Salvador, Cambodia, Cyprus and Afghanistan, it contains dialogue on: * threatened neighborhood peace and defense * cycles of inner discord, inhabitants displacement and violence * controversy over factors, development and backbone * the price of exterior mediation, enforcement or intervention equivalent to sanctions or "punishments" * potential, timing and permanence of reconciliation.

By Moshe Gat

During this accomplished examine, Gat appears at British coverage within the interval prime as much as the Six-Day conflict. even though Britain holds middle level during this account, the learn discusses in a few element American coverage and its impression at the Arab-Israeli clash. It additionally makes a speciality of the center East water dispute, its influence on destiny occasions, and at last the outbreak of battle in 1967. this can be a attention-grabbing examine the method in which the center East turned one more chilly struggle playground.

By Norman G. Finkelstein

ON APRIL 1 2011, within the pages of the Washington publish, the overseas jurist Richard Goldstone dropped a bombshell. He successfully disowned the big proof assembled within the United countries' file wearing his identify that Israel had dedicated a number of warfare crimes and attainable crimes opposed to humanity in Gaza in the course of its 2008-9 invasion. Israel was once jubilant. "Everything that we acknowledged proved to be true," leading Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crowed. "We constantly stated that the IDF [Israel protection Forces] is an ethical military that acted in response to foreign law," security Minister Ehud Barak declared. "We had without doubt that the reality may pop out eventually," overseas Minister Avigdor Lieberman proclaimed. The Obama management used the party of Goldstone's recantation to confirm that Israel had now not "engaged in any struggle crimes" in the course of the Gaza attack whereas the U.S. Senate unanimously referred to as at the United countries to "rescind" the Goldstone document. a few commentators have endeavored to end up via parsing his phrases that Goldstone didn't truly recant. whereas there are grounds for making this argument on a technical foundation, the sort of rhetorical technique won't wash. Goldstone is a individual jurist. He understands tips on how to use exact language. If he didn't wish to sever his reference to the document he might easily have acknowledged "I am no longer recanting my unique file wherein I nonetheless stand." He should have identified precisely how his phrases will be spun and it's this fallout-not his parsed words-that we needs to now confront.

By Judith Keshet

It is a severe exploration of Israel's curfew-closure coverage within the Occupied Palestinian Territories during the eyes of CheckpointWatch, a company of Israeli ladies tracking human rights abuses. It combines observers' reviews from checkpoints and alongside the Separation Wall, with info and research of the forms assisting the continuing profession. It seriously reports CheckpointWatch's transformation from a feminist, radical protest circulation and analyzes Israeli media illustration of the association and of human rights activism normally.

By Sharon Pardo

This e-book deals an research of the dynamics of Israeli-European kinfolk and discusses major advancements in that courting from the overdue Fifties via to the current day. The emphasis is put on 5 extensive subject matters that tackle varied dimensions of the connection: 1) Israeli-E.U. family members and the Israeli-Palestinian peace procedure; 2) Israeli-E.U. family members in a multilateral context; three) the bilateral nature of Israeli-E.U. family members; four) Israeli (mis)perceptions of the E.U.; five) the way forward for Israeli-E.U. relatives.

By Mark A. Raider

The existence, profession, and legacy of Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982), probably the most colourful and critical Zionist leaders of the 20 th century, are absolutely printed during this illuminating selection of essays. American, Israeli, and eu students converse to the various facets of Goldmann, together with his upbringing, upward thrust within the overseas public area as a top-rated suggest for Jewish lifestyles and the Zionist company, and his function as an elder statesman within the Sixties and Seventies. frequently prior to his time, Goldmann proved hugely influential at a number of serious historic junctures—on the eve of the production of the Jewish nation, he performed a key function articulating Israel’s courting with diaspora Jewry, postwar Germany, and the Arab international. This quantity captures Goldmann in all his complexity, whereas making this significant determine and his time obtainable to researchers, scholars, and readers.

By David J. Whittaker

Conflict and Reconciliation within the modern World provides a concise, unique and multi-faceted creation to the examine of recent clash occasions. utilizing 8 case- experiences, from 4 continents: Yugoslavia, Israel, Northern eire, South Africa, El Salvador, Cambodia, Cyprus and Afghanistan, it comprises dialogue on:
* threatened local peace and security
* cycles of inner discord, inhabitants displacement and violence
* controversy over motives, development and resolution
* the price of exterior mediation, enforcement or intervention akin to sanctions or ''punishments''
* skill, timing and permanence of reconciliation