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11. Rethinking the Middle East

    By Efraim Karsh

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    Rethinking the Middle East runs counter to the received wisdom in modern Middle East studies. This discipline has been dominated by what may be termed a "culture of victimization"; it views the local populations of the Middle East Arabs in particular as the hapless victims of alien encroachment,...

    Published March 29th 2003 by Routledge
12. Israel: The First Hundred Years

    Volume III: Politics and Society since 1948

    Edited by Efraim Karsh

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    Since its founding in 1948 Israel has faced many political, social and psychological challenges, unfamiliar to other nations on the western democratic political model and peculiar to the Jewish state. This work covers the role of politics in Israel since 1948....

    Published December 31st 2001 by Routledge
13. Israel: the First Hundred Years

    Volume II: From War to Peace?

    Edited by Efraim Karsh

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    The end of the British mandate in Palestine heralded the birth of the new state of Israel. It also marked the end of one of the most tumultuous and momentous chapters in Israeli history. But the new state, born into a hostile environment and struggling with the manifold demands of sovereignty,...

    Published October 29th 2000 by Routledge
14. Fabricating Israeli History

    The 'New Historians', 2nd Edition

    By Efraim Karsh

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    Israeli historiography is under assault by "new historians" exposing "Zionist narrative". This text takes issue with these "revisionists", arguing that they have ignored or misinterpreted much documentation in developing their analysis of Israel's history....

    Published June 9th 2000 by Routledge
15. Israel: the First Hundred Years

    Volume I: Israel’s Transition from Community to State

    Edited by Efraim Karsh

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    The Zionist Movement was born in the wake of Jewish emancipation in Western Europe, and at a time of increased persecution in Eastern Europe. This volume addresses the intellectual, social and political ramifications of Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel before the creation of the State of Israel....

    Published March 29th 2000 by Routledge
16. In Search of Identity

    Jewish Aspects in Israeli Culture

    Edited by Dan Urian, Efraim Karsh

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    Culture has played a focal role in the shaping of Jewish-Israeli national identity. Since the 1950s, Israeli culture has been disintegrating into simultaneous sub-cultures. The contributors discuss the nature and characteristics of this cultural tension and the nature of Jewishness....

    Published November 30th 1998 by Routledge
17. From Rabin to Netanyahu

    Israel's Troubled Agenda

    Edited by Efraim Karsh

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    Benjamin Netanyahu's 1996 election victory marked a major turnaround in his fortunes, for only a few months earlier his political career had seemed finished. This book examines what his victory means both domestically and internationally....

    Published September 30th 1997 by Routledge
18. Between War and Peace

    Dilemmas of Israeli Security

    Edited by Efraim Karsh

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    Strategists assess the opportunities confronting Israel at the century's end and offer solutions to such issues as the economic consequences of peace for security, implications of the new world order for Israel's strategic interests, Israel's nuclear weapons and a future Middle Eastern battlefield....

    Published April 29th 1996 by Routledge
19. Peace in the Middle East

    The Challenge for Israel

    Edited by Efraim Karsh

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    Specialists from Israel, Europe and the US examine the implications of peace for Israel. How would it affect the country's political and economic systems and its national security, and what would peace mean for its regional and international standing and its relations with world Jewry?...

    Published October 31st 1994 by Routledge