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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
    ISBN: 9781627797092
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 323 Seiten
    Edition: First edition
    Year of publication: 2017
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 956.9405/5
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    Keywords: Arab-Israeli conflict ; Jewish-Arab relations ; Palestinian Arabs History ; Besetzte Gebiete ; Nahostkonflikt ; Palästinafrage ; Beilegung ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Problemlösen ; Fähigkeit ; Einrichtung ; Strategie ; Politik ; Kompromiss ; Vorschlag ; Initiative ; Anreiz ; Konfliktregelung ; Israel ; Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete ; Nahostkonflikt ; Friedensbemühung ; Gewalt
    Abstract: Scattered over the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace proposals, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions, and state-building efforts. The conventional story is that these well-meaning attempts at peacemaking were repeatedly, perhaps terminally, thwarted by violence. Through a rich interweaving of reportage, historical narrative, and powerful analysis, Nathan Thrall presents a startling counter-history. He shows that force has impelled each side to make its largest concessions, from Palestinian acceptance of a two-state solution to Israeli territorial withdrawals. This simple fact has been neglected by the world powers, which have expended countless resources on initiatives meant to diminish friction between the parties. By quashing any hint of confrontation and providing bounteous economic and military assistance, the United States and Europe have merely entrenched the conflict by lessening the incentives to end it. Thrall's important book upends the beliefs steering these failed policies, revealing how the aversion of pain, not the promise of peace, has driven compromise for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
    Abstract: In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: confrontation. Scattered over the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace proposals, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions and state-building efforts. The conventional story is that these well-meaning attempts at peacemaking were repeatedly thwarted by the use of violence. Through a rich interweaving of reportage, historical narrative and forceful analysis, Nathan Thrall presents a startling counter-history. He shows that Israelis and Palestinians have persistently been marching toward partition, but not through the high politics of diplomacy or the incremental building of a Palestinian state. In fact, negotiation, collaboration and state-building--the prescription of successive American administrations--have paradoxically entrenched the conflict in multiple ways. They have created the illusion that a solution is at hand, lessened Israel's incentives to end its control over the West Bank and Gaza and undermined Palestinian unity. Ultimately, it is those who have embraced confrontation through boycotts, lawsuits, resolutions imposed by outside powers, protests, civil disobedience, and even violence who have brought about the most significant change. Published as Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza reaches its fiftieth year, which is also the centenary of the Balfour Declaration that first promised a Jewish national home in Palestine, The Only Language They Understand advances a bold thesis that shatters ingrained positions of both left and right and provides a new and eye-opening understanding of this most vexed of lands
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , I. FORCING COMPROMISE , 1. The only language they understand , II. DOMINANCE : ISRAELI CONQUEST AND ITS JUSTIFICATIONS , 2. Feeling good about feeling bad , 3. Going native , III. COLLABORATION : EASING OCCUPATION AS A FAILED STRATEGY OF ENDING IT , 4. Our man in Palestine , 5. Palestinian paralysis , 6. The end of the Abbas era , IV. CONFRONTATION : PALESTINIAN PRESSURE AND ITS LIMITS , 7. Not popular enough , 8. Rage in Jerusalem , 9. Hamas's chances , 10. Trapped in Gaza , V. NEGOTIATION : POLITICAL HORIZONS AND OTHER EUPHEMISMS FOR FALSE HOPE , 11. More than one state, less than two , 12. Faith-based diplomacy , 13. Obama's Palestine legacy
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781137537225 , 9781137526151 , 9781137526021
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 226 Seiten , 23 cm
    Year of publication: 2016
    Series Statement: The modern muslim world
    DDC: 956.05/4
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    Keywords: Palestinian Arabs Politics and government 21st century ; Palestine Politics and government 21st century ; Arab-Israeli conflict ; Regime change ; Middle East Politics and government 21st century ; Syria History Civil War, 2011- ; Refugees ; Syria Politics and government 21st century ; Syria History Civil War, 2011- ; Bürgerkrieg in Syrien ; Arabischer Frühling
    Abstract: "Since the early weeks of the so-called Arab Spring, high hopes for democratic, social, and political change in the Middle East have been met with varying degrees of frustration. Particularly in the subregion of the Levant, regional uprisings have turned to violent conflict in places such as Syria, Iraq, and the Gaza Strip. In Syria, popular unrest has caused one of the most brutal civil wars the region ever has witnessed and enormous human suffering, yet the international community has shown an appalling inability to act. The Syrian people have become the pawn in a complex setting of brutal regime repression, militia warfare, and the diverging interests of regional states and international great powers. Taking the war in Syria as its central point of reference, this book raises the question of whether the developments in the Levant might lead not only to processes of regime change, but also to a fundamental alteration of its entire state system"--
    Abstract: ""In light of the ongoing Syrian civil war, the advancement of the "Islamic State" (IS) in both Syria and Iraq, and the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book raises the question of whether the developments in the Levant might lead not only to regime change, but to a fundamental alteration of its entire state system"--Provided by the publisher"--
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Political Turmoil and Social Transformation in the Levant; Martin Beck, Dietrich Jung, and Peter Seeberg -- 1. Syria's Civil War and the Reconfiguration of Regional Politics; Fred H. Lawson -- 2. Deadly Implications: The Rise of Sectarianism in Syria; Peter Sluglett -- 3. Conflict, Governance and Decentralized Authority in Syria; Samer N. Abboud -- 4. The Syrian Refugee Crisis And Its Impact On Jordan: In Reference to the Regime's Structural Deficits; Simone Hoser -- 5. The Crisis in Syria, International and Regional Sanctions and the Transformation of the Political Order in the Levant; Peter Seeberg -- 6. The 'Syrian Effects' and the Regional Quest for Human Dignity in the New Syrian, Egyptian and Tunesian Constitutions; Mervat F. Hatem -- 7. Israel and a Palestinian State: Redrawing Lines?; Lorenzo Kamel -- 8. Failed Attempts or Faliures to Attempt? Western Policies toward Palestinian Statehood; Martin Beck -- 9. Turmoil in the Levant: Inconclusive Conclusions; Dietrich Jung -- Contributor Bios -- Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note:Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Political Turmoil and Social Transformation in the Levant; Martin Beck, Dietrich Jung, and Peter Seeberg -- 1. Syria's Civil War and the Reconfiguration of Regional Politics; Fred H. Lawson -- 2. Deadly Implications: The Rise of Sectarianism in Syria; Peter Sluglett -- 3. Conflict, Governance and Decentralized Authority in Syria; Samer N. Abboud -- 4. The Syrian Refugee Crisis And Its Impact On Jordan: In Reference to the Regime's Structural Deficits; Simone Hoser -- 5. The Crisis in Syria, International and Regional Sanctions and the Transformation of the Political Order in the Levant; Peter Seeberg -- 6. The 'Syrian Effects' and the Regional Quest for Human Dignity in the New Syrian, Egyptian and Tunesian Constitutions; Mervat F. Hatem -- 7. Israel and a Palestinian State: Redrawing Lines?; Lorenzo Kamel -- 8. Failed Attempts or Faliures to Attempt? Western Policies toward Palestinian Statehood; Martin Beck -- 9. Turmoil in the Levant: Inconclusive Conclusions; Dietrich Jung -- Contributor Bios -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781442247550 , 9781442247543
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 261 Seiten
    Year of publication: 2015
    DDC: 303.6
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    Keywords: Political violence ; Religion and state ; Judaism ; Christianity ; Islam ; Judentum ; Christentum ; Islam ; Gewalt ; Politik ; Terrorismus ; Judentum ; Christentum ; Islam ; Gewalt ; Politik ; Terrorismus
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
    ISBN: 0814750842 , 0814751385
    Language: English
    Pages: 232 S.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Series Statement: Reappraisals in Jewish social and intellectual history
    DDC: 947/.004924 20
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Immigranten ; Joden ; Sociale aanpassing ; Einwanderer ; Geschichte ; Juden ; Judentum ; Politik ; Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Civilization ; Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government ; Jews -- United States -- Civilization ; Jews -- United States -- Politics and government ; Immigrants -- United States -- Intellectual life ; Immigrants -- United States -- Political activity ; Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750- ; Judentum ; Juden ; Moderne ; Geschichte ; USA ; Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations ; United States -- Ethnic relations ; Osteuropa ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Juden ; Geschichte ; Osteuropa ; Juden ; Geschichte ; Osteuropa ; Judentum ; Geschichte ; USA ; Judentum ; Geschichte ; USA ; Judentum ; Moderne ; Osteuropa ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Facing the dizzying array of changes commonly referred to as "modernity," Jews in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe and early twentieth-century America reflected the crises and opportunities of the modern world most eloquently in their speech, their culture, and their literature. Relying on those spoken and written words as "eyewitnesses," Eli Lederhendler illustrates how the self-perceptions of Jews evolved, both in the Old World and among immigrants to America. He focuses on a wide range of subjects to provide an overview of this clash between old and new and to reveal ways in which cultural conflicts were reconciled. How, for instance, was messianic language adapted to serve nationalistic goals? What did America signify to Jewish thinkers at the turn of the century? What do Jewish "user's guides" to the New World tell us about Jewish secular culture and its perspective on sex, love, marriage, etiquette, and health? More generally, what do Jewish letters and literature tell us about how communities adapt to radically new environments? Jewish Responses to Modernity highlights the manner in which codes and symbols are passed from one generation to the next, reinforcing a group's sense of self and helping to define its relations with others, demonstrating yet again the importance of language as a vehicle for minority-group self-expression in the past and in the present.
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  • 5
    Book
    Book
    Cambridge u.a. : Cambridge Univ. Press
    ISBN: 0521432340
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 208 S.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Year of publication: 1993
    DDC: 305.892/4041 20
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1933 ; Geschichte ; Geschichte 1939-1945 ; Holocaust ; Holocauste, 1939-1945 - Opinion publique ; Joden ; Juifs - Attitudes ; Juifs - Grande-Bretagne - Politique et gouvernement ; Opinion publique - Grande-Bretagne ; Sionisme - Grande-Bretagne ; Geschichte ; Juden ; Judenvernichtung ; Politik ; Jews -- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion ; Jews -- Great Britain -- Attitudes ; Public opinion -- Great Britain ; Zionism -- Great Britain ; Nationalsozialismus ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Juden ; Judenverfolgung ; Judenvernichtung ; Grande-Bretagne - Relations interethniques ; Great Britain - Ethnic relations ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century ; Großbritannien ; Hochschulschrift ; Großbritannien ; Juden ; Judenvernichtung ; Geschichte 1939-1945 ; Großbritannien ; Judenvernichtung ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Juden ; Geschichte ; Nationalsozialismus ; Judenverfolgung ; Geschichte 1933
    Abstract: How did British Jewry respond to the Holocaust, how prominent was the Holocaust on the communal agenda and what does this response tell us about the values, politics, fears and identity of the Anglo-Jewish community? This book studies the priorities of that community, and thereby seeks to analyse the attitudes and philosophies which informed actions. It paints a picture of Anglo-Jewish life focussing on reactions to a wide range of matters in the external Gentile world. Richard Bolchover charts the transmission of the news of the European catastrophe and discusses the various theories which have thus far been posited regarding reactions in these exceptional circumstances. He investigates the structures and political philosophies of Anglo-Jewry during the war years and covers the reactions of Jewish political and religious leaders as well as prominent Jews acting outside the community's institutional framework. Various co-ordinated responses, political and philanthropic are studied, as are the issues which dominated the community at that time, namely internal conflict and the fear of increased domestic anti-Semitism: these preoccupations inevitably affected responses to events in Europe. The latter half of the book looks at the ramifications of the community's socio-political philosophies including, most radically, Zionism, and their influence on communal reactions. This is the first and only published work on this subject, and it raises major questions about the structures and priorities of the British Jewish community.
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