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The History of Water in the Land Once Called Palestine
Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation. In this, the first of two volumes on the subject, the authors look beyond the political tensions of the region, to argue for the need for shared water security and co-operative resource management. The History of Water in the Land Once Called Palestine, traces the history of water resources and security and their development from the Ottoman period until 2020, examining how the state of water security amongst Palestinians and Israelis has diverged, resulting in the current success of Israeli water security in contrast to the high water insecurity experienced by Palestinians. The authors assess water security in three parts: security of access to water resources, security of access to water services and finally, security against risks to and from water.
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Every spy a prince : the complete history of Israel's intelligence community
\"This book appeared in slightly different form in England under the title The imperfect spies, copyright 1989\"--T.p. verso.
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1948
This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side-where the archives are still closed-is illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials.
Morris stresses thejihadicharacter of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. Throughout, he examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the refugee problem, which was a by-product of the disintegration of Palestinian Arab society. The book thoroughly investigates the role of the Great Powers-Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union-in shaping the conflict and its tentative termination in 1949. Morris looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the successive battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.
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Every spy a prince : the complete history of Israel's intelligence community
A history of Israel's intelligence community.
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Old Arabs, new Arabs: debating Palestinian pedagogy during the mandate
With the expansion of public education, Palestine under the British mandate witnessed the emergence of a local pedagogic discourse and the proliferation of pedagogic literature, led mainly by government employees. This study focuses on the biographies and pedagogic work of these Palestinian educators. Specifically, it analyses authorship of educators who were employed by the colonial Department of Education, a system that offered ambiguous objectives for the Arab population. It locates the new Arab, a knowledgeable, modern citizen of the world, yet one who is firmly tied to his national roots and cultural heritage, as the embodiment of the educational vision. Through textbooks, school journals and archival documents, the study shows the complex forms in which nationalism, authenticity and modernism were articulated in pedagogic literature. It argues that the acquisition of knowledge was perceived as the key for personal and collective emancipation, and investigates the mechanisms through which historical, geographic and religious knowledge were created, adapted and translated in order to serve this educational goal. Furthermore, it underlines the role of the Zionist settler colonial project in the construction of the new Arab's image, therefore making Palestinian pedagogy a unique test case in the region's scholarship on interwar education.
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Modern Typologies as Spaces of Inter-Religious Engagement in British-Mandate Jerusalem, 1917–1938
The architecture of Jerusalem has for centuries been defined by its being a space sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The end of World War I marked the beginning of British Mandatory rule, which lasted until 1948. During this period, Jerusalem witnessed a proliferation of architectural projects that repositioned religion within modern typologies representing the city’s communities. This research investigates four such buildings: the British Rockefeller Museum, the Palestinian Palace Hotel, the American YMCA Building, which functioned as a community center and hostel, and the new Zionist Executive Building. The integration of religious elements into these edifices is examined using the concept of inter-religious engagement and by applying the theory of purification and hybridization. The research demonstrates that British and American Christians, Zionist Jews, and Muslim Palestinians, used different strategies to produce inter-religious engagement—either intentionally or because of British-dictated political constructs. British and American Christians embedded religious elements within modern typologies to reflect peaceful co-existence, while Zionist Jews and Muslim Palestinians used them to construct national identity. Although conceived as “purely” secular, these modern typologies were hybridized by the integration of religious spaces or emblems, revealing further dimensions to our understanding and assessment of 20th-century urban secular architecture and its intersection with religions.
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The Islamic Movement in Israel
Since its establishment in the late 1970s, Israel's Islamic
Movement has grown from a small religious revivalist organization
focused on strengthening the faith of Muslim Palestinian citizens
of Israel to a countrywide sociopolitical movement with
representation in the Israeli legislature. But how did it get here?
How does it differ from other Islamic movements in the region? And
why does its membership continue to grow?
Tilde Rosmer examines these issues in The Islamic Movement
in Israel as she tells the story of the movement, its
identity, and its activities. Using interviews with movement
leaders and activists, their documents, and media reports from
Israel and beyond, she traces the movement's history from its early
days to its 1996 split over the issue of its relationship to the
state. She then explores how the two factions have functioned
since, revealing that while leaders of the two branches have
pursued different approaches to the state, until the outlawing of
the Northern Branch in 2015, both remained connected and dedicated
to providing needed social, education, and health services in
Israel's Palestinian towns and villages. The first book in English
on this group, The Islamic Movement in Israel is a timely
study about how an Islamist movement operates within the unique
circumstances of the Jewish state.
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