History of the Arab Israeli Conflict or My Traitors Heart

History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Author: Ian J Bickerton

This concise and comprehensive text presents a balanced, impartial, and well-illustrated coverage of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The authors identify and examine the issues and themes that have characterized and defined the conflict over the past century. The new Fifth Edition examines the many developments since 9/11 and its aftermath.

Table of Contents:

1	Palestine in the nineteenth century	15
2	Palestine during the mandate	34
3	World War II, Jewish displaced persons, and the partition of Palestine	65
4	The proclamation of Israel and first Arab-Israeli War	96
5	The conflict widens : Suez, 1956	112
6	The turning joint : June 1967	133
7	Holy days and holy war : October 1973	155
8	The search for peace, 1973-1979	178
9	Lebanon and the intifada	205
10	The peace of the brave	237
11	The peace progresses	272
12	Collapse of the peace process	304
13	The Arab-Israeli conflict in the post-9/11 world	343

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My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

Author: Rian Malan

An astonishing work of reportage—a book unlike any other about South Africa. Malan searches for the truth behind apartheid, and finds it not in the way black and white South Africans live, but in the way they die at one another's hands.

Publishers Weekly

Written with smoldering moral outrage, this odyssey offers a firsthand glimpse of South African apartheid and its practitioners' rationalizations. The author grew up in a white Johannesburg suburb; his great-uncle Daniel Malan was the first Afrikaner nationalist prime minister and an architect of today's racist system. The author, a youthful leftist, then a crime reporter, left his homeland in 1977 to become a Los Angeles rock 'n' roll critic, returning to South Africa in 1985. His blistering book combines autobiography, reportage, coming to terms with his ancestral roots and loosely-stitched-together tales of murder and violence committed predominantly by whites. He claims that, for fear of being branded racists, white liberals avoid discussing certain topics, such as atrocities committed by blacks in the name of the anti-apartheid struggle and blacks' involvement in animistic religions. He sees no ready solutions in the fight to change an oppressive system. Author tour. (Jan.)

Library Journal

This soul-searching account of an Afrikaner's life in apartheid South Africa joins a growing body of publications by South Africans of every ethnic group. Malan, the grand nephew of a major definer of the doctrine of apartheid, Daniel Malan, left South Africa in 1977, in part to avoid military service, and returned eight years later. This book reports his observations of violent death in the land. He details instances of whites killing blacks, blacks killing blacks, blacks killing whites, politically motivated murder, and economically motivated murder. Well written, gripping, and disturbing, the descriptions leave one with a sense of despair which makes Malan's final note of hope all the more remarkable. Recommended for adult general readers as well as those with a special interest in South Africa.-- Maidel Cason, Univ. of Delaware Lib., Newark