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-- Four thousand year journey in search of peace.2006., General, Danny Taran Foundation] Call No: 296 T176f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2016., Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and,Giroux Call No: QWF Bio A458p Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Revered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman Army, he fought the British in the First World War, and won an Iron Cross. In the 1920s, he mastered the arts of insurgency and helped lead a massive uprising against the French authorities in Syria. A decade later, he re-appeared in Palestine, where he helped direct the Arab revolt of 1936. When an effort to overthrow the British rulers of Iraq failed, he moved to Germany, where he spent much of the Second World War battling his fellow exile, the Mufti of Jerusalem, who had accused him of being a British spy. In 1947, Qawuqji made a daring escape from Allied-occupied Berlin, and sought once again to shape his region's history. In his most famous role, he would command the Arab Liberation Army in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. In this well-crafted, definitive biography, Laila Parsons tells Qawuqji's dramatic story and sets it in the full context of his turbulent times. Following Israel's decisive victory, Qawuqji was widely faulted as a poor commander with possibly dubious motives. Parsons shows us that the truth was more complex: Although he doubtless made some strategic mistakes, he never gave up fighting for Arab independence and unity, even as those ideals were undermined by powers inside and outside the Arab world."--
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1990., Houghton Mifflin Call No: 327.1 R256e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "This book appeared in slightly different form in England under the title The imperfect spies, copyright 1989"--T.p. verso.
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2002, p1960., MGM Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Exodus Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of the birth of Israel as an independent state, based on the novel by Leon Uris.
![Exodus [DVD] (1960). Directed by Otto Preminger.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Exodus [DVD] (1960). Directed by Otto Preminger.")
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2016., Drawn & Quarterly Call No: GN 956.94 G559h Edition: First Drawn & Quarterly edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Sarah Glidden is a progressive Jewish American twenty-something who is both vocal and critical of Israeli politics in the Holy Land. When a debate with her mother prods her to sign up for a Birthright Israel tour, Glidden expects to find objective facts to support her strong opinions. During her two weeks in Israel, Glidden takes advantage of the opportunity to ask the people she meets about the fraught and complex issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but their answers only lead her to question her own take on the conflict. Simple linework and gorgeous watercolors spotlight Israel's countryside, urban landscapes, and religious landmarks. With straightforward sincerity, lovingly observed anecdotes, and a generous dose of self-deprecating humor, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less is accessible while retaining Glidden's distinctive perspective. Over the course of this touching memoir, Glidden comes to terms with the idea that there are no easy answers to the world's problems, and that is okay."--
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By Cohen, Rich2009., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 956.94 C678i Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it--by taking what had been a national religion and turning it into an idea. Jews no longer needed Jerusalem to be Jews. Whenever a Jew studied--wherever he was--he would be in the holy city. But in our own time, Zionists have turned the book back into a temple. In Rich Cohen's new history of the Zionist idea and the Jewish state--the history of a nation chronicled as if it were the biography of a person--he brings to life dozens of figures, each driven by the same impulse: to reach Jerusalem. From false messiahs to the early Zionists, to the iconic figures of David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir Cohen shows how all these lives together form a single story. He examines the myth of the wandering Jew, the paradox of Jewish power, and the triumph and tragedy of the Jewish state.--From publisher description.
