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Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999
 
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Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999 (Paperback)

by Benny Morris (Author)
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  • Paperback: 800 pages
  • Publisher: Random House Inc; New edition edition (27 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0679744754
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679744757
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 4.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 328,794 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #48 in  Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Government & Politics > International Relations > Diplomacy
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"The most sophisticated and nuanced account of the Zionist-Arab conflict."-"The New York Times Book Review
""A very rich account.... Defies sweeping generalizations about the conflict and facile attribution of moral responsibility to any one side."-"Foreign Affairs"

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Tracing the roots of political Zionism back to the pogroms of Russia and the Dreyfus Affair, Morris describes the gradual influx of Jewish settlers into Palestine and the impact they had on the Arab population.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A broad historical perspective on the Arab-Israeli conflict., 20 Dec 2000
By Budge Burgess (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Year after year, decade after decade, the conflict in the Middle East becomes more and more complex and apparently more and more intractable. Benny Morris offers an extraordinary piece of scholarship which will be of consuming interest to anyone concerned to understand the politics and psychology of the situation: Morris takes a complex subject and delivers a highly readable analysis.

He demonstrates that the roots of the present Arab-Israeli wars and social unrest stretch back to the 19th century. Morris analyses the tensions which underlay the creation of Israel, and achieves the seemingly impossible - a balanced narrative of the politics and warfare of the region.

Morris is cutting in his remarks: the outbreak of the Six Day War was a mistake - the politicians posed and postured and pushed one another... until the situation was beyond their control. Morris's analysis of the strategies and military successes of the protagonists is compelling.

This is an indispensable work for anyone interested in the Middle East - and it is impossible for anyone to dismiss that conflict as too remote or as limited in its importance to the rest of the world. Here is a major flash point for world politics and economics - and an enduring nightmare for people caught up in the horrors which beset their lands. Rich in detail and analysis, written with pace and style, this is a thought provoking work.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A first-class history of the Israel-Arab conflict, 6 Mar 2000
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Thousands of books have been written on the Israeli-Arab conflict. Virtually all of these have been partisan. Here we have the first objective history covering the conflict from its 19th century inception right up to the 21st century. "Righteous Victims" is not a history of Israel nor a history of Palestine. It is a history of the conflict and it covers the subject comprehensively, objectively and with acute insight. No serious student of the Middle East can afford to ignore this book.
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