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“josh ruebner”

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  • Shattered Hopes

    Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace

    by Josh Ruebner ...
    President Barack Obama’s first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where he despondently admitted to those waiting for words of encouragement, “It is a hard slog to work through all of these issues.” Contrast this gloomy assessment with Obama’s optimism on the second day of his first term, when he appointed former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • My Promised Land

    The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

    by Ari Shavit ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism’s heart.”—Ezra Klein, The New York TimesWinner of the Natan Book Award ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • No Mission Is Impossible

    The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces

    by Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal ...
    A riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal's account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli Special Forces.In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal depict in electrifying detail major battles, raids in enemy territory, and the death- defying ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Way to the Spring

    Life and Death in Palestine

    by Ben Ehrenreich ...
    From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian lifeOver the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages. Along the way he has written major stories for American outlets, including a remarkable New ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Contested Land, Contested Memory

    Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe

    by Jo Roberts ...
    1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are.After a war, the victors write history. How was the story of the exiled Palestinians erased -- from textbooks, maps, even the land? How do Jewish and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Question of Palestine

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever. • With a new foreword by Saree Makdisi"A compelling call for identity and justice." —Anthony Lewis"Books such as Mr. Said's need to be written and read in the hope that understanding will provide a better chance of survival." —The New York Times Book ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The 51 Day War

    Ruin and Resistance in Gaza

    by Max Blumenthal ...
    On July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, followed by a ground invasion. The ensuing fifty-one days of war left more than 2,200 people dead, the vast majority of whom were Palestinian civilians, including over 500 children. During the assault, at least 10,000 homes were destroyed and, according to the United Nations, nearly 300,000 Palestinians were displaced. Max ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Two-State Delusion

    Israel and Palestine--A Tale of Two Narratives

    by Padraig O'Malley ...
    **Padraig O'Malley is the subject of the new acclaimed documentary The Peacemaker“A thoughtful autopsy of the failed two-state paradigm . . . Evenhanded, diplomatic, mutually respectful, and enormously useful.”—Kirkus, starred review**Disputes over settlements, the right of return, the rise of Hamas, recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, and other intractable issues have repeatedly derailed ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • State of Failure

    Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State

    by Jonathan Schanzer ...
    The biggest obstacle to Palestinian statehood may not be IsraelIn September 2011, president Mahmoud Abbas stood before the United Nations General Assembly and dramatically announced his intention to achieve recognition of Palestinian statehood. The United States roundly opposed the move then, but two years later, Washington revived dreams for Palestinian statehood through bilateral diplomacy with ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Resurgence of Central Asia

    Islam or Nationalism?

    by Ahmed Rashid ...
    A seminal introduction to the rise of Central Asia following the collapse of Tsarist Russia, this book has been out of print for two decades and is now more relevent than ever.The Resurgence of Central Asia is Ahmed Rashid’s seminal study of the states that emerged in the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. All have Muslim ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Israeli Mind

    How the Israeli National Character Shapes Our World

    by Alon Gratch ...
    Israelis are bold and visionary, passionate and generous. But they can also be grandiose and self-absorbed. Emerging from the depths of Jewish history and the drama of the Zionist rebellion against it, they have a deeply conflicted identity. They are willing to sacrifice themselves for the collective, but also to sacrifice that very collective for a higher, and likely unattainable, ideal. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Company C

    An Americans Life as a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army

    by Haim Watzman ...
    When American-born Haim Watzman immigrated to Israel, he was drafted into the army and, after eighteen months of compulsory service, was assigned to Company C, the reserve infantry unit that would define the next twenty years of his life. From 1984 until 2002, for at least a month a year, Watzman, who had never aspired to military adventure, was a soldier.Watzman was a soldier as he adjusted to ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD