Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Israel Lobby & U.S Foreign Policy-----Mearsheimer & Walt

subtitled : What is the impact of the Israel Lobby on U.S. foreign policy---and is it in America's national interest

The authors describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained or either strattegic or moral grounds.

Palestine-Peace not Apartheid-----Jimmy Carter

subtitled : President Carter's courageous assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palistine

The blood of Abraham, ' God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle east.

From Time Immemorial-----Joan Peters

subtitled : The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine

Joan Peters strikes a heavy blow against the broad consenus about the Palistinians and the assumption that Palistinian rights are at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The book supplies abundant justification for reverseing the moral and legal presumptions that have cast Israel in the role of defendant before the world of world opinion.

Myths and Facts-----Mitchell G. Bard

subtitled : A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Israel's Roots--The Arab/Israeli Wars--The United Nations--The Refugees--Jerusalism--U.S. Middle East Policy--The Peace Process--Settlements..........

The Clash of Civilizations-----Samuel P. Huntington

subtitled : Remaking of World Order

Peoples and nations are attempting to answer the most basic question humans can face: Who are we? And they are answering that question in the traditional way humans have answered it, by reference to the things that mean most to them. People define themselves in terms of ancestry, religion, language, history, values, customs, and institutions. They identify with cultural groups: tribes, ethnic groups, religious communities, nations, and at the broadest level, civilizations.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict-----Journalist of Reuters

subtitled : Crisis in the Middle East

This book examines the failures of diplomacy and the dashed hopes that have scarred generations of Israelis and Palestinians. Top Reuters foreign correspondents, who have witnessed every twist and turn in Arab-Israel history, provide unmatched perspective and analysis.