Looking Back at the June 1967 War
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Looking Back at the June 1967 War
By (Author) Haim Gordon
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th July 1999
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Central / national / federal government policies
Political science and theory
Warfare and defence
956.046
Physical Properties
Hardback
224
Description
This collection of essays by Israeli, Palestinian, and American scholars and activists examines the impact of the June 1967 War on Palestinians and Israelis alike in the thirty years following the war. Israel became an occupying power in 1967, ruling more than one million Palestinians in territories it had captured. Using military strength, with the tacit agreement and support of the United States and other Western democracies, Israel exploited and oppressed the Palestinians, brutally suppressing their civil, human, and political rights. This book evaluates and examines the injustices done to the Palestinians during this period. In this first attempt to look back at those thirty years and assess what has happened to Israeli and Palestinian society, the contributing scholars provide a critique of the prevailing Realpolitik in the Middle East and, indeed, the world today. Bound to be controversial, the collection will be of great interest to scholars and policy makers, as well as concerned citizens interested in the contemporary Middle East.
Reviews
This book makes the reader realize the growing critical scholarship in Israel the topic of peaceful coexistance with the Palestinians; and as such is an outstanding addition to the sharp discourse on peace and justice in Israel. Students, teachers, and researchers of Middle East studies, peace studies, humanities, social sciences, and Third World studies: this book is for you!-Journal of Third World Studies
"This book makes the reader realize the growing critical scholarship in Israel the topic of peaceful coexistance with the Palestinians; and as such is an outstanding addition to the sharp discourse on peace and justice in Israel. Students, teachers, and researchers of Middle East studies, peace studies, humanities, social sciences, and Third World studies: this book is for you!"-Journal of Third World Studies
Author Bio
HAIM GORDON is Professor of Education at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev-Israel. Professor Gordon has published extensively, his latest project is a Dictionary of Existentialism (Greenwood Press, 1999).
