TY  - BOOK
AU  - Black,Ian
TI  - Enemies and neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 
SN  - 9780241004425 (hbk.) :
AV  - DS119.7 .B5 2017
U1  - 956.940 .B627 2017 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - UK
PB  - Allen Lane
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict
KW  - History
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Israel
KW  - 1948-1967
KW  - 1967-1993
KW  - 1993-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Ever since the Ottoman Empire was defeated and British colonial rule began in 1917, Jews and Arabs have struggled for control of the Holy Land. Israel's independence in 1948 in the wake of the Holocaust was a triumph for the Zionist movement but a catastrophe - 'nakba' in Arabic - for the native Palestinian majority. Ian Black has written a gripping, lucid and timely account of what was doomed to be an irreconcilably hostile relationship from the beginning. He traces how, half a century after the watershed of the 1967 war, hopes for a two-state solution and an end to occupation have all but disappeared. The author, a veteran Guardian journalist, draws on deep knowledge of the region and decades of his own reporting to create a uniquely vivid and valuable book. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the story so far - and why both peoples face an uncertain future
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