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Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible introduction to the multi-faceted history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Smith’s widely respected analysis examines how underlying issues, group motives, religious and cross-cultural clashes, diplomacy and imperialism, and encroaching modernity shaped this volatile region. The book’s narrative and supporting documents,…
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I own the Fifth Edition of this book, which was inscribed for me by the author, Charles Smith. This book is different from the four noted above because it is a detailed chronicle and critical analysis of the Arab/Palestinian conflict with Israel by a single author, the documents supplementing rather than constituting the text.
Among the books I know of that purport to be balanced and comprehensive studies of this subject, I think this one has the best claim to those descriptors. The book is in its tenth edition, so the author has obviously successfully presented the subject's history in…
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