Israel and Palestine: The Complete History [2019 Edition]

by Ian Carroll

Overview

In July 2018, Israel's Knesset approved the Nation-State Bill, a controversial piece of legislation, both at home and abroad, which declared Israel a sovereign state for the Jewish people. It followed US President Donald Trump's 2017 decision to relocate the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Both events provoked consternation and scorn from many countries, and offer the latest twists in the Israeli-Palestinian saga: two peoples on an everlasting - and seemingly irreconcilable - path to peace.

Israel and Palestine: The Complete History seeks to explain the overall story of Israeli and Palestinian tensions and divisions in the region. Indeed, without properly understanding the full history of the area, it is impossible to understand the current situation.

In this book, author Ian Carroll takes the reader back to the very beginning of the conflict some 4,000 years ago, then moves through the major events of the Middle Ages and 20^th century, and brings us right up to the present day, documenting the significant events that have happened along the way. The reader is allowed to make up their own mind as to where praise and condemnation belong with this complicated issue.

From Exodus to the birth of Jesus, from Islam to the Crusades, through the Diaspora and up to the recreation of the modern state of Israel and beyond, Israel and Palestine: The Complete History avoids a dry academic approach. It aims to tell the history of the region and peoples in a balanced and brisk fashion, from a storyteller's perspective.

With talk of a Third Intifada and the introduction of the Nation-State Bill all bringing this age-old issue to the forefront of world news once more, there has never been a more appropriate time to understand and appreciate Israel and Palestine's history.

Note: This is an updated, expanded, and re-edited version of "Israel / Palestine - a 4000 year history" by Ian Carroll, originally published in 2006.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781911121671
Publisher:	Dark River
Publication date:	01/21/2019
Pages:	228
Sales rank:	304,110
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

PART 1: IN THE BEGINNING

1. IN THE BEGINNING

2. EARLY DAYS

3. TWIN STATES

4. BEFORE EXILE

5. THE BIBLE

6. THE PERSIANS AND THE GREEKS

7. THE FERTILE CRESCENT UNDER ROMAN OCCUPATION

PART 2: FROM JESUS UP TO THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL

8. THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST

9. THE ARABS IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE

10. THE CRUSADES

11. THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

12. THE EARLY LIFE OF THEODOR HERZL

13. THE FIRST ZIONIST CONGRESS

14. CONGRESS CONTINUED

15. BEFORE THE GREAT WAR

16. THE BALFOUR DECLARATION

17. THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE

18. THE THIRD AND FOURTH ALIYAH

19. THE FIRST ARAB UPRISING

20. THE RISE OF NAZI GERMANY

21. THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR TWO

PART 3: FROM 1948 TO THE SIX DAY WAR

22. THE JEWISH STATE

23. AL-NAKBA

24. THE ARAB EXODUS

25. THE ALTALENA AFFAIR

26. THE BERNADOTTE PLAN

27. THE ARAB INVASION

28. LOOKING UP?

29. THE GENERALS

30. THE SUEZ CRISIS

31. BETWEEN THE WARS

PART 4: FROM 1967 TO THE FIRST INTIFADA

32. DAY ONE

33. DAY TWO

34. DAY THREE

35. DAY FOUR

36. DAY FIVE

37. DAY SIX

38. THE OCCUPATION

39. BLACK SEPTEMBER

40. FRIENDS DIVIDED

41. THE PRICE OF OIL

42. THE YOM KIPPUR WAR

43. THE INTERREGNUM

44. ISRAEL AND THE UNITED NATIONS

45. THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS

46. INTO LEBANON

47. BEIRUT

48. SABRA AND SHATILA

49. INTO THE CAMPS

50. NO MORE WAR

51. INTIFADA

52. A SIMPLE PLAN

PART 5: FROM THE FIRST INTIFADA TO THE SECOND INTIFADA

53. THE OFFSPRING OF INTIFADA

54. THE MADRID CONFERENCE

55. YITZHAK RABIN

56. THE OSLO ACCORDS

57. AFTER OSLO

58. AFTER RABIN

59. MR. PALESTINE

60. SUICIDE BOMBERS

61. THE ROAD TO PARADISE

62. HEBRON

63. THE END OF PEACE

PART 6: FROM THE SECOND INTIFADA TO THE PRESENT DAY

64. THE PASSOVER MASSACRE

65. ISRAELI INCURSION

66. THE BATTLE RAGES

67. THE AMBUSH

68. ISRAELI RESPONSE

69. THE AFTERMATH

70. THE BETHLEHEM SIEGE

71. THE RAMALLAH COMPOUND

72. FROM 2000 TO THE PRESENT