Israel

1. Wineries in Israel - Wineries based in Israel. www.business.com Mama
2. The Case for Israel

   The Case for Israel

   • Book by Alan Dershowitz.
3. The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc. - Powered by Silas Partners. The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc ... occasional email updates on what's happening at The Friends of Israel. ... www.foigm.org Mama
4. Banks in Israel - Banks headquartered in Israel. www.business.com Mama
5. Israel - Embassy of Israel, Dublin, providing information on the situation in Israel and archive material on Ireland-Israel relations. dublin.mfa.gov.il Mama
6. Ingrids Welt: Israel - Israel-Fotos aus den 80er Jahren und ein Bericht über einen Kibbutzaufenthalt 1982/83. www.ingrids-welt.de Mama
7. Israel Travel and Hotels Guide - Israel hotels travel guide offers info on jerusalem eilat and tel aviv and much much more www.inisrael.com Mama
8. Israel Behind Closed Doors - Real Israel - American Support for Israel - Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh of Temple Israel of Hollywood, California describes the Israel she experienced during Israel's 2006 war with Hizbullah. judaism.about.com Mama
9. Israel - Judaism in Israel - Religion in Israel: Judaism in Israel. atheism.about.com Mama
10. Menorah - Tidskrift med läsvärt från och om Israel. Ges ut av Förenade Israelinsamlingen. www.menorah-sweden.com Mama
11. A History of Israel- From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (Second Edition, Revised and Updated)

    A History of Israel

    From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (Second Edition, Revised and Updated):
    • Book by Howard M. Sachar.
12. Israel Elections 2003 - Israeli Political Parties - Israel's Political Parties have different goals. judaism.about.com Mama
13. Visual Perspectives of The Baha'i World Centre - A site which displays photographs of the center for the Baha'is of the world in Haifa, Israel. Intended solely for viewing the magnificent beauty of the World Centre. millerfamily.org Mama
14. Israel Antiquities Authority - Visit the link for details. www.israntique.org.il Mama
15. Messianic Israel Alliance - Torah observant association of congregations embraces the "both houses of Israel" truth. Locate a congregation or read 'Messianic Israel Herald' publications. www.mim.net Mama
16. Israel, Palästina und der Nahostkonflikt - Eine jüdische Initiative für ein friedliches Nebeneinander und Miteinander der Völker der semitischen Region ([NahOst]Create?). [ INHALT ] [ MELDUNGEN HEUTE ] [ e- ... www.nahost-politik.de Mama
17. Travelnet: Israel - Herausragender, detaillierter Online-Reiseführer. Bemerkenswert sind insbesondere Informationen zu den verschiedenen ethnisch-religiösen Gruppen vor Ort, zur Rolle der Frau sowie Vorschläge zu Spaziergängen und Touren in und um Israels Städte. www.travelnet.co.il Mama
18. CIA - The World Factbook -- Israel - Israel (also see separate Gaza Strip and West Bank entries) ... conventional long form: State of Israel conventional short form: Israel ... www.cia.gov Mama
19. NFTY - North American Federation of Temple Youth - The Reform Movement's national youth group's site offers information about NFTY, summer Israel programs, and EIE (High School in Israel.) nfty.org Mama
20. A History of Israel

    A History of Israel

    • Book by John Bright.
21. Bar-Ilan University, Israel - Bar-Ilan University combines science and general studies with Jewish studies. Learn about the university departments, research centers, course catalog, on-line admission, libraries and publications. www.biu.ac.il Mama
22. Israel Travel and Hotels Guide - inisrael.com - - israel travel guide israel tourism israel tours israel hotels jerusalem hotels dead sea hotels eilat hotels kibbutz ho Personal Folder View/Cancel Reservation Our commitments | How to use this site ... www.inisrael.com Mama
23. Israel : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of - December 1988 country profile provides information about its historical setting, society and environment, economy, government and politics, ... lcweb2.loc.gov Mama
24. Israel Hebrew - Articles about Israel, covering Israeli culture, Hebrew, Jerusalem, Middle East Peace Process, Israeli Politics, Security, Terrorism and a Virtual Tour. Information about the official language of Israel, Hebrew - one of the world's oldest living languages. judaism.about.com Mama
25. Israel Independence Day - Yom HaAtzmaut - Links to sites which focus on Israel Independence Day (Yom [HaAtzmaut]Create?). Learn about Israeli leaders, read about the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), listen to Israel's national anthem, read sermons from rabbis about Israel, review Israeli history, and look at photos and video clips of Israel. judaism.about.com Mama
26. Israel Hotels Guide - Israel hotels and reservations guide offers you competitive rates and local customer service for hotels all over Israel. Israel hotels guide Israel Hotels ... www.hotels-of-israel.com Mama
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28. Israel: Geography, Maps and Information - Geography and maps of the Middle Eastern country of Israel. geography.about.com Mama
29. The Israel-Palestine Conflict- One Hundred Years of War

    The Israel-Palestine Conflict

    One Hundred Years of War:

• Book by James L. Gelvin.

The Case for Israel

The Case for Israel

• Review:: 'poor show, old boy What a load of turnspeak. G. Orwell (deceased)
• Review:: 'NO NEED FOR "A CASE FOR ISRAEL" AT ALL The concept that Israel needs a defence for it's existance or "a case for" at all is ridiculous and the title in itself is very revealing since it shows how insecure Dershowitz really is regarding Israel. It implies that a case needs to be made when none is needed! And the last thing Israel needs is to be defended by the someone like Dershowitz, who's long list of clients include- Jonathan Pollard, Mike Tyson, Leona Helmsley, O.J. Simpson, Harry Reems, Claus Van Bulow, Milken, Patty Hearst and Meir Kahane. FACT: Israel is a nation founded in 1948 with defined borders which DID NOT INCLUDE the Gaza strip, the West Bank nor did it include Jerusalem. Israel acquired these territories after the 1967 War and Israel has no legal right to these occupied territories. FACT: Due to the 1948 War some 700,000 Palestinian civilians were forced to leave their property and these refugees have never been allowed to return to their property. Refugees from war are entitled by international law to return to their land of origin. FACT: LAND ACQUIRED BY WAR IS INADMISSIABLE ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL LAW. All settlements built on these occupied lands are illegal according to international law. These settlements must be dismantled, vacated or returned. FACT: Israel has never offered to return to pre existing 1967 borders in exchange for peace in any negotiations with the Palestinians. The fact that Dershowitz needs to promote lies based on Joan Peter's academic fraud claiming that Palestine of the 19th century was a barren and unpopulated is an embarressment and shows how low Dershowitz will go. Dershowitz tactics in this book mirrors his thought process that he obviously uses in criminal court. But he fails to realize that his readership are not a mindless jury, hand picked and prevented from gaining information other than during court proceedings. Lots of distractions and side issues are offered here but little regarding the facts on the ground related above. Lucky for Dershowitz that he can lie and hide behind a book but had he been forced to actually make his case in a court of law he would lose since history speaks for itself.
• Review:: '900 reasons for security fence With my book I have "Saving Lives: Israel's Anti-Terrorist Fence. This shows pictures of 900 victems of murdered by Palestinian terrorist attacks since late September 2000. If one reads this book with open mind, once can see the reasons we cannont support terrorism in any form. Chapter 6: Are the Informal Geneva Accords a Basis for or Barrier to Peace? "Today, we are extending our hands in peace....The Palestinian people want peace, the Israeli people want peace. The world wants peace. Will we allow a few enemies of peace to destroy our dreams?" Yasser Abed Rabbo, former Palestinian cabinet minister and coauthor of accords. p. 59. The Case for Isreal. "It's a clenched-teeth compromise with painful concessions on both sides. Amos Oz, Israeli author and peace activist. P. 59. Reading this book with open mind without media slant and biased info. shows "hope for peace" and even more "hope for absence of war and terrorism."
• Review:: 'Mr. Dershowitz, I have read your book VERY CAREFULLY "The Case for Israel" is written by the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. Politically, he could be described as a Cold War liberal. He supports gay rights, affirmative action and OJ Simpson, while opposing Cuba and Communism. And he supports Israel. Ironically, his support for Israel is as uncritical as the attitude of the CPUSA towards the Soviet Union. Dershowitz even defends house demolitions, and have proposed that entire Palestinian villages be destroyed in retaliation for suicide bombings. Despite protestations to the contrary, he also supports torture. Yet, Dershowitz is a member of Amnesty International! "The Case for Israel" is a piece of badly edited and completely fanaticized pro-Israeli propaganda. It was obviously written in great haste, since it contains a number of factual errors and misspellings. For instance, the author seems to think that the Philippines are a Muslim nation, and calls the notorious Spartacist League "Spartacus League". In an earlier edition, he even claimed that the phrase "Turnspeak" comes from George Orwell. (Its Newspeak, of course.) While sloppy editing like this is amusing, the main theses of the book certainly are not. Here, I will concentrate on just two of them. First, the question of collective punishment. Dershowitz argues that all, or most, Palestinians are guilty, since they sympathize with terrorist groups or actions. Thus, even punishment of civilians is justified. There is a "continuum of civilianity", says the author, since its not always easy to distinguish civilians from combatants among the Palestinians. They are all in on it, after all. Of course, this bizzare line of argument works both ways. Most American Jews aid and abet Israel. Would that justify a bomb in a Brooklyn shopping mold? Most Israelis support the on-going attack on Lebanon. Does that justify bombing Haifa? And what about kibbutzniks at the Syrian border or settlers at the West Bank? They are heavily armed, and some of them are illegal, making the distinction between civilians and combatants on the Jewish side hard to draw. Indeed, Osama bin-Laden justified 9/11 in exactly the same way. The American people elected the politicians responsible for attacking Iraq and supporting Israel. Therefore, they must take collective responsibility for the death of Arab civilians. (See "Messages to the World" by Osama bin-Laden, available here at Amazon.com.) Alan Dershowitz attempts to circumvent this by claiming that the Jews who are killed by Palestinian suicide bombings are "perfectly innocent" and are killed "regardless of their political views". But most Israelis dont vote for parties demanding immidiate withdrawal from the Occupied Territories, and today most support the attack on Lebanon. By Dershowitzian logic, they are therefore not "perfectly innocent". But the opposite is true as well: Dershowitz demagogically points out that some Israelis killed by suicide bombers were teenagers. Yet, he supports the massive ethnic cleansing of Germans by the Soviet Army during the last phase of World War Two, seeing this as suitable collective punishment. Of course, these actions affected teenagers as well, including teenage girls gang raped by Soviet soldiers... By implication, Dershowitz even seems to support the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where many teenagers and kids died as well! (For the record: I support the Allies and my grandfather was a Communist partisan during the war. But that doesnt mean I have to accept Allied atrocities.) The author of "The Case for Israel" also claims that there is a difference between intentionally killing civilians (like Hamas) and unintentionally killing them while bombing military targets (like the IDF). He also points out that Israel gives advance warning before it bombs civilian areas. Are there no bounds to the cynicism of this man? Perhaps Israel doesnt "want" to kill civilians (its bad PR, after all) but their two invasions of Lebanon clearly prove that they couldnt care less if civilians do get killed. They are, after all, all guilty, right? As for giving advance warning, the IRA gave advance warning before its attacks against civilian targets in Britain. Logically, Dershowitz should claim that the IRA and the British were morally equivalent, but of course he doesnt. Besides, there may be many reasons why civilians cant leave a targeted area even if given advance warning. Witness the hurricane Katrina in the US. Besides, why SHOULD they leave? Would American Jews "just leave" New York if given advance warning about another al-Qaeda attack? I guess so, but they would surely demand swift counter-action by Ms. Rice. And Im not talking UN resolutions. So why do Alan Dershowitz have one standard for the Jews and a quite different one for the Arabs? This bring me to my second point. The reason, of course, is that he believes Palestine to be rightfully Jewish. And not just Palestine, but apparently Transjordan as well! On what grounds? That Jews have an automatic right to Palestine, no matter what, is an idea that can only be "justified" religiously. But the author is a secularist. With the risk of drawing some fire, I dont belive there are any secular grounds for automatically granting the Jews Palestine, save one: the "right" or might of conquest. Before the Zionist colonization, Palestine was predominantly Arab, and had been Arab for around 1200 years. No amount of sophistry can change this fact, and Dershowitz tries some! That Jews had an independent kingdom in Palestine over 2000 years ago is irrelevant. By that logic, New York City should be given over to the Manahata Indians. Ironically, that would force its Jewish community to re-settle in Israel, something they havent been very keen on doing for the past 60 years. Presumably, Egypt should be given over to some descendant of Cleopatra, provided such could be found. The case for Transjordan being Jewish is non-existent on secular grounds, pace Dershowitz, and flimsy even on religious grounds. Some Biblical passages suggest that everything from the Stream of Egypt to the Euphrates is rightfully Jewish. That would include both Transjordan and half of Iraq! Other Biblical passages suggest that "only" the northwestern part of Transjordan should be Jewish. But most limit the Promised Land to Palestine proper, leaving out the areas east of Jordan. The rabbinical commentary "Tevuos Haaretz" exclude both the Negev and Transjordan from Eretz Israel, but include Lebanon. "Kaftor [VaFerach]Create?" also include the coast of Syria, but again, no Transjordan. The relevant maps can be found in the Stone edition of the Jewish Bible, available from this site. So what is the real case for Israel? Frankly, the only case that could be made for it, is that Israel exists, have a powerful army, and simply wont go away. In a perfect world, Palestine would be Arab, and there would be no anti-Semitism, hence no need for a Jewish state. Or the Jews would have their own state somewhere else, perhaps in an empty part of the Americas or the Russian Far East (both proposals have been entertained). But the world is far from perfect. The Jews created their own state in the dog-eat-dog imperfect world. For pragmatic reasons of Realpolitik, compromises are called for. Besides, Israel have become a haven for persecuted Jews from the Arab nations and the ex-Soviet Union. Thus, even a humanitarian case for Israel could be made. What the compromise must be is obvious: a two-state solution, with Israel withdrawing from the West Bank and Gaza strip, where a Palestinian state should be set up. The Palestinian refugees, unfortunately, cannot return, except perhaps to the Palestinian state. If Israel wants to build a wall at the pre-1967 borders, so be it. Stop the hate, lets separate. I agree with Prof. Alan Dershowitz on one point only: It was indeed a mistake for Arafat not to accept the Barak-Clinton proposal of 2000, or at least continue the negotiations. When I was more pro-Israeli, I wrote a more even-handed review of this book. Since then, I changed my mind. Mr. Dershowitz, I have read your book VERY CAREFULLY and only give it one star out of five!
• Review:: 'Two wrongs don't make a right! Dershowitz is supposed to be a college professor, yet he consistently cuts and pastes sources from Joan Peters fraud, From Time in Memorial. Norman Finkelstein all proves without any shadow of doubt that this book has manipulated figures from prominent Jewish historian Benny Morris. Finkelstein debated Dershowitz on Democracy Now about this issue. Despite Dershowitz's constant interruptions I believe it is the most intertaining debate I have ever seen. Please download it from Finkelstein's website if you have time. Dershowitz is just one example of people contributing to the distortion history and creating a fog to the real crisis in Palestine.

• Similar books:
• Myths and Facts- A Guide to the Arab-Israel Conflict, Second Edition
• The Case for Peace- How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved
• The New Anti-Semitism - The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It
• Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism
• Right to Exist- A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars

A History of Israel- From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (Second Edition, Revised and Updated)

A History of Israel

From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (Second Edition, Revised and Updated):

• Review:: 'An excellent reference This book does a fine job of supplying a detailed history of Israel. It is over 1000 pages, not even counting the index or the huge bibliography. Sachar's idea is to tell us what happened and why. That does not mean taking sides. It does not mean saying if the people involved were reasonable or moral in choosing the sides they did. I can understand this approach. We all wish that we could always view relatively current events from the perspective of those who could see which side was being greedy, which side was simply immoral, or which side was being impractical. But we can't, so Sachar simply reports what happened as best he can. And I don't see how I can ask for more than this. In addition, the simple retelling of what happened and why tells us plenty about how wise or moral decision-makers were. Let me give one example. Sachar has a hefty section on the response to the UN Partition Resolution of November, 1947. Britain refused to gradually transfer authority to a United Nations commission, explaining that this would result in "confusion and disorder." Britain did everything possible to avoid cooperating with those in the UN or the Jewish Agency. The six UN commission members were made unwelcome. They "were soon reduced to foraging for food and drink. They accomplished nothing." Meanwhile, the British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, simply regarded the Jews as enemies. As Sachar writes, Bevin claimed "that the whole Jewish 'pressure' was a gigantic racket run from America," that the Jews had stolen "half the place" (that is, half of the Mandate territory), and that "he would not be surprised if the Germans had learned their worst atrocities from the Jews." I think this ought to tell any perceptive reader plenty about Bevin. On top of this, Sachar explains that Bevin and some important British officers were predicting an Arab military victory, and that the Arabs would have no difficulty taking over the whole country. Nowadays, some people appear to have forgotten all this and are pretending that everyone knew that the Arabs would be no match for the Jews, which is yet one more reason why we ought to read this book! Sachar also tells us about the British swiping the entire contents of the Mandate treasury, to make sure the Jews got none of the money. At the same time, the British gave 300,000 pounds to the Supreme Moslem Council, an indirect subsidy of the Arab war effort. The British strictly enforced an embargo on Jewish immigration and Jewish weapons acquisition. Meanwhile, the British happily sold weapons to Iraq and Transjordan. It is true that on April 1, 1948, the Jews decided to stop responding to Arab attacks in a purely defensive manner. With Jerusalem threatened, they did decide to take action to relieve the siege. But Sachar has already shown us that one reason the Jews were unable to try such a plan before then was that the British would have stopped them by force. There is an enormous amount of information in this book. I recommend it to everyone who is interested in the topic, no matter what political views they may have.
• Review:: 'Thorough and thought provoking Very well-written, very informative, balanced view of the evolution and struggles that Israel has undergone. I only wish it had an extra chapter to give similar perspective to the tumult of the past few years.
• Review:: 'Great big book for a great little country Besides being the heaviest book I've read in a very long time, A History of Israel, by Howard Sachar, is probably among the most useful anyone will find on that subject. Let's face it, in today's world the subject of Israel still comes up a lot, far more than one might expect for such a small country. And in an atmosphere in which fifty seven percent of people polled list Israel as the greatest threat to world peace, an educated person cannot afford to be ignorant on the matter.

  Israel is a great country. And like all great countries (like most countries, actually) it has a right to exist. Its history extends back quite some time before its founding. If you doubt this, or know someone who does, than the early chapters on Zionism and Jewish migration into Palestine will be invaluable. Want to know just how the Jews came to inhabit the land? Was it a land grab? Theft? Acquisition by conquest? The answer is no, and you can get the details here.

  What is Israel like? What is its culture? Economics? Daily Life? How about religion? They're Jews, but how devout are they? What power does the rabbinate have? What arts and sciences flourish, or fail to, in Israel? These are also covered, often, and in detail.

  Israel has fought five major wars in its short life. Why? Who started them? How did Israel respond? Did these wars exist in a vacuum, or are they part of an ongoing antagonism against Israel from its Arab neighbors? What actually happened in the Six Day War? Just how did the occupation come to be? All of these issues are examined in detail.

  Who runs Israel? What is the party structure? What do they believe? How does Israel relate to other countries, and how has this changed over the years? What about the United States? Is Israel really the fifty-first state? Again, these are all issues dealt with in detail.

  The operative word here is detail. With over a thousand pages of small font text, Sachar can cover everything he wishes and go as deep as he desires. This is a history text, not a polemic essay. The point is to show Israel for what it is, avoiding the pitfalls that await anyone writing about the most controversial country every to exist. To the extant that Sachar has taken any sides, it would probably be with the Labor party and against the Likud party. As far as Israel's relations with the Arab countries go, he has stated things as they happen. It may be a surprise to many, but Israel has a really good record vis-ý-vis the treatment of Arabs and they owe no excuses to anyone over their presence in the world.

  So although the book is formidable and very, very long, it is clear and relevant to today's world. If you'd like to get past the shouting and name-calling and really find out about the country, this is the place to look.

• Review:: 'Indepth, exhaustive and the best book on the STATE of Israel This book is required reading in the Near Eastern and Judaic studies department at Brandeis University which has one of the best Israel/Judaic studies programs in the country.
  This is the only book that extensively examines the Jewish State entirely in its modern political context, while simultaneously covering world Jewry and the Middle East conflict. Howard Sachar is a renowned scholor who has written much on the topic.
  As someone who has traveled to Israel several times, WORKED on a kibbutz for a long period and studied both the country, the region and the interaction between the two; I can tell any critic that this book is highly critical of the Likud party and Israeli irridentism. The West Bank settlers are NOT treated kindly by Sachar and anyone who finds this book unbalanced did not read beyond the first few hundred pages.
  This book made me re-evaluate my political position and recognize the many shortcomings of a place I adore.
• Review:: 'An excellent historical tome and a very interesting read! Sachar's tome A History of Israel is both complete and a great read. Not being a formal teacher or student of history (this is just a hobby), I wanted a complete book that presented the issues of the Middle East objectively and completely. Sachar's book does that very well.

  Although some parts of it can be difficult to get through, particularly the economic issues, the book is simple to read and not overly convoluted. It presents the history of this important country in a very thorough manner, barely missing any important issues.

  Perhaps my only criticism is that it is somewhat one-sided. It deals with Arab issues well, but since it is a history of Israel, it focuses more on the Israeli side of things. It certainly is not a book about the emotional trials of the refugees -- instead it is meant as an objective documentation of fact. People looking for an op/ed piece will not find it hear. It does, however, manage to present the major mistakes Israel has made as well as many of the shocking atrocities committed in the name of the Jewish state.

  I was looking for a book to answer the question -- where did this conflict start? Where did Arabs and Jews go wrong in their relations that has led us to this point? A History of Israel answered this question and many, many more. It is by far the best book about Israel that I have read and I recommend it highly!

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• Righteous Victims- A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001
• The Case for Israel
• The Zionist Idea- A Historical Analysis and Reader
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• Six Days of War- June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East