Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Highly Recommended

This book is fantastic. Marcus is an amazing writer. The reader is right there inside the character (this being the real live person). I am reading this book for my history class and I am enjoying it, so much that it does not feel like reading an ordinary history book. Sometimes it is hard to wrap ones mind around the characters because their names are very similar. Great book. Would recommend to anyone who would like to know more about how the world works now in the Palestine. I do not condone how the Jews did things to get there nation. It does not really matter now. It is impossible to undo over an hundred event that was in the making for quite sometime.

a must read for all Christians

This book gave me needed history of the Israel-Arab conflict.

A reviewer

The book has its charms for evoking the memory of a time before electricity, but the author tries to make a case without sufficient proof. Her main claim is that the issues we face today in the Arab-Israeli dispute are basically the same that people grappled with back in the years around 1913, and that the same insensitivities and self-interest on the part of all parties involved condemned the peace process just as today. Her argument, however, is based on ignoring the elephant in the room. First of all she hardly discussed the role of religion and how that contributed to the conflict, except for the occasional mention of calls for jihad. Second, she never discussed Arab antisemitism and how it played out in the events of the time, such as the massacre of Jews in Hebron. Third, she seemed to equate the rise of Arab nationalism with the concurrent struggles of Zionism without explaining that 'Palestinian' nationalism did not exist then. The main problem is that she implies that the players could have reached a solution if they only seized the opportunities available then but she doesn't show us a picture of what that solution would entail.

A powerful and unique lesson on the Israeli -Arab conflict

This book is outstanding. I would first recommend it to the Israeli and Arab current Leaders to read together and meet as a book club. Maybe they can learn from history and activities from the past while trying to negotiate an agreement to a better present and future for this region.

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