
Israel and Palestine, 2019 Edition
The Complete History
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Narrated by:
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Alastair Cameron
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By:
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Ian Carroll
About this listen
In July 2018, Israel's Knesset approved the Nation-State Bill, a controversial piece of legislation, both at home and abroad, which declared Israel a sovereign state for the Jewish people. It followed US President Donald Trump's 2017 decision to relocate the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Both events provoked consternation and scorn from many countries, and offer the latest twists in the Israeli-Palestinian saga: two peoples on an everlasting - and seemingly irreconcilable - path to peace.
Israel and Palestine: The Complete History seeks to explain the overall story of Israeli and Palestinian tensions and divisions in the region. Indeed, without properly understanding the full history of the area, it is impossible to understand the current situation.
In this book, author Ian Carroll takes the listener back to the very beginning of the conflict some 4,000 years ago, then moves through the major events of the Middle Ages and 20th century, and brings us right up to the present day, documenting the significant events that have happened along the way. The listener is allowed to make up their own mind as to where praise and condemnation belong with this complicated issue.
From Exodus to the birth of Jesus, from Islam to the Crusades, through the Diaspora and up to the recreation of the modern state of Israel and beyond, Israel and Palestine: The Complete History avoids a dry academic approach. It aims to tell the history of the region and peoples in a balanced and brisk fashion, from a storyteller’s perspective.
With talk of a Third Intifada and the introduction of the Nation-State Bill all bringing this age-old issue to the forefront of world news once more, there has never been a more appropriate time to understand and appreciate Israel and Palestine’s history.
©2019 Bennion Kearny (P)2020 Bennion KearnyInteresting and Educational . Highly recommend.
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Educational and sad
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Detailed and balanced
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To his point, he is neither an historian nor political analyst, he’s a ‘storyteller’. He glosses over important elements of the history, ignoring key facts and contrasting information. He regularly condemns one side and champions the other as completely virtuous insuring that the information he gives supports this. He also has completely ignored issues of ‘Jihad’ (apart from one quick reference early on to a holy war) and discriminative verses in scripture that are at heart of the difficulties in solving this complex issue.
The best way I can describe it is that he read a bunch of information from Wikipedia without bothering to do any further research and then wrote the book.
I wanted an unbiased book that gave both side of the issue fairly, this was not that book! Don’t read it in isolation of more credible authors and as your only source of truth on the issue.
The most bias ‘unbiased’ book I’ve read
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