In spite of the current diplomatic impasse, Tony Blair's efforts and continuing bloodshed, Professor Wasserstein offers a realistic and persuasive basis for optimism in this startlingly original overview of the relations between Jews and Arabs in Palestine and Israel over the last century.
Bernard Wasserstein has been a historian of the Israeli-Arab conflict for the past thirty years. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 1982 to 1996 he was Professor of History at Brandeis University in Massachusetts and from 1996 to 2000 he served as President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He was Professor of History at the University of Glasgow and is now Professor of History at Chicago. Divided Jerusalem (also published by Profile Books) aroused widespread comment and was particularly praised for its lucidity and objectivity.
Nowhere else are [arguments] set out so clearly, both on the map
and against the passage of time.
*Guardian*
In this short and elegant essay...the rationality of the argument
is impressive.
*Sunday Times*
Nowhere else is such a multi -analysis set out so clearly. For
those wishing to better understand the Israeli-Palestinian war this
is a mandatory book.
*International Affairs*
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