"From an award-winning journalist, a perceptive study of how Israel's actions, which run counter to the traditional historical values of Judaism, are putting Jewish people worldwide in an increasingly untenable position. More than a decade ago, the historian Tony Judt considered whether the behavior of Israel was becoming not only "bad for Israel itself" but also, on a wider scale, "bad for the Jews." Under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, this issue has grown ever more urgent. In The State of Israel vs. the Jews, veteran journalist Sylvain Cypel addresses it in depth, exploring Israel's rightward shift on the international scene and with regard to the diaspora. Cypel reviews the little-known details of the military occupation of Palestinian territory, the mindset of ethnic superiority that reigns in the midst of an Israeli "colonial camp" that is largely in the majority, and the adoption of new laws, the most serious of which establishes two-tier citizenship between Jews and non-Jews. He shows how Israel has aligned itself with authoritarian regimes and adopted the practices of a security state, including the use of technologies such as the software that enabled the tracking and, ultimately, the assassination of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Lastly, The State of Israel vs. the Jews examines the impact of Israel's evolution in recent years on the two main communities of the Jewish diaspora, in France and the United States, considering how and why public figures in each differ in their approaches"--

From the prelude of the October 1973 Middle East war through the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in March 1979, Kenneth W. Stein traces American involvement in the Arab-Israeli negotiations. He provides a range of first-hand accounts, recollections and anecdotes from over eighty bureaucrats, diplomats and military leaders who participated in Arab-Israeli peace talks in the 1970's and since. Charting the complex and often contradictory goals of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, the US and the USSR, Stein chronicles the evolution of these negotiations and analyzes the roles of Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, and Begin. --From publisher's description.

'The PLO: The Struggle Within' is a comprehensive and up-to-date history of the PLO and the development of Palestinian political thinking. Based on access to the PLO's own documents and numerous interviews with the readers of its various groups and factions, the author recounts the major debates that have taken place within the movement over the past two decades. Alain Gresh illustrates how the PLO has made the difficult transition from the original idea of the destruction of the state of Israel to the current notion of recovering at least some part of occupied Palestine and creating there a separate and independent Palestinian State alongside Israel. The breakdown of Palestinian power in Lebanon following the Israeli invasion, Arafat's clash with Syria, the siege of the refugee camps and the attempt to create a new united Palestinian strategy for the next decade are crucial elements in the evolution of the Middle East conflict. In this updated and revised second edition, Gresh covers the impact of these changes and draws out their implications for the final decade of this century.