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Free Download Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil by Saul Friedländer
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1804296783 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 0.43 MB
Searching reflections on the crisis in Israel and Gaza by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust

Free Download What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
English | June 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 180522347X | 128 pages | PDF | 2.56 Mb
When the state of Israel was formed in 1948, it precipitated the Nakba or ‘disaster’: the displacement of the Palestine nation, creating fracture-lines which continue to erupt in violent and tragic ways today.

Free Download Lorenzo Veracini, "Israel and Settler Society"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0745325017 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.2 mb
The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is not unique – whatever the news media may suggest. Lorenzo Veracini argues that the conflict is best understood in terms of colonialism. Like many other societies, Israel is a settler society. Looking in detail at the evolution of other colonial regimes – apartheid South Africa, French Algeria and Australia – Veracini presents a thoughtful interpretation of the dynamics of colonialism, offering a clear framework within which to understand the middle east crisis.

Free Download Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Lévy
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 9798888457832 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 2.53 MB
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Israel Alone is a passionate and outraged cri-de-coeur, about the loneliness of Israel and the tragedy of October 7, starting with Lévy’s eyewitness account the day after the pogroms.

Free Download Gila Menahem, Amos Zehavi, "Policy Analysis in Israel"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1447308042 | EPUB | pages: 228 | 0.6 mb
Israel is considered a developed country yet both security issues and its frequently changing demographic makeup set Israel apart and imply that Israeli policy analysts must operate in a unique environment and grapple with exceptional challenges. This volume, part of the successful International Library of Policy Analysis series, brings together for the first time a comprehensive study of policy analysis in Israel. Following an introductory chapter that discusses the paradoxical history of policy analysis in Israel by Yehezkel Dror, leading figures from both the Israeli public and academic spheres discuss different aspects of policy analysis in Israel.

Free Download What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D74VMXTF | 2024 | 2 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@256 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Raja Shehadeh
Narrator: Khalid Abdalla
A poignant, incisive meditation on Israel’s longstanding rejection of peace, and what the war on Gaza means for Palestinian and Israeli futures. When apartheid in South Africa ended in 1994, dismantled by internal activism and global pressure, why did Israel continue to pursue its own apartheid policies against Palestinians? In keeping with a history of antagonism, the Israeli state accelerated the establishment of settlements in the Occupied Territories as extreme right-wing voices gained prominence in government, with comparatively little international backlash. Condensing this complex history into a lucid essay, Raja Shehadeh examines the many lost opportunities to promote a lasting peace and equality between Israelis and Palestinians. Since the creation of Israel in 1948, known to Palestinians as the Nakba, or catastrophe, each side’s perception of events has strongly diverged. What can this discrepancy tell us about Israel’s undermining of a two-state solution? And will the current genocide in Gaza finally mark a shift in the world’s response? With graceful, haunting prose, Shehadeh offers insights into a defining conflict that could yet be resolved.

Free Download The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4F5TPHW | 2024 | 9 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Antony Loewenstein
Narrator: Finlay Robertson
Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an "enemy" population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, uncovers this largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.

Free Download Water Policy in Israel: Context, Issues and Options By Nir Becker (auth.), Nir Becker (eds.)
2013 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 940075910X | PDF | 4 MB
This book deals with water policy in Israel. It offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Israel’s water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, and the complex, contentious work of analyzing and devising the nation’s water management and use policies. Water Policy in Israel is arranged in five broad sections: The dynamics of moving from one policy era to another; Supply management; Demand management; The importance of the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea; and Regional and global issues including water conflict and cooperation and climate change.

Free Download Geoffrey Levin, "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978"
English | ISBN: 0300267851 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights

Free Download Alon Helled, "Israel’s National Historiography: Between Generations, Identity and State "
English | ISBN: 3031627946 | 2024 | 191 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The book analyses the development of Israel’s national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography. Inspired by Norbert Elias’ historical and figurational sociology, the book examines the different phases and generations in Israel in light of the collective habitus and the nation-state survival unit, set by Zionism. It does so by putting in relation the intellectual profession of history-writing and the processes of state and identity building. It processually pursues the autonomization of the historiographical field in Israel from its socio-genesis in pre-state Israel to recent decades. By combining together well-established literature on the relations between nationalism and statehood and on the particularity of the Israeli case, the book updates the state of the art and opens new debates on Jewish\Israeli exceptionalism, while shedding light on continuity and change in Israeli statehood vis-à-vis the supposed uniqueness of Jewish history, as reinterpreted and codified by Zionism. As it examines the interconnections between local intelligentsia and politics, the enquiry avails of the sociological concepts of "generation," "habitus," "survival unit," "field," according to the long-period tradition of research in Pierre Bourdieu, Norbert Elias, Max Weber, and more. This rich sociological conceptualization permits to mirror and contextualize Israel’s national identity with both intellectual and sociopolitical emphases. By situating Israeli historians and their profession on the dynamic crossroads and intersections of academia, politics, and greater society, the study delineates the deep meaning of "Israeliness."