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No history is so disputed as the history of Israel. Some see
Israel's creation as a dramatic act of justice for the Jewish
people. Others insist that it was a crime against Palestine's
Arabs. Author David Brog untangles the facts from the myths to
reveal the truth about the Arab-Israeli conflict. In Reclaiming
Israel's History you'll learn how the Jewish people have maintained
a continual presence in the Land of Israel for over 3,000
years-despite centuries of Roman, Byzantine, and Muslim
persecution; how the Romans invented the word "Palestine" as a way
to sever the connection between the Jewish people and their land
(and how subsequent conquerors doubled down on this strategy); how
modern Jewish immigration to Palestine did not displace Arabs but
instead sparked an Arab population boom; and the largely untold
story of how the leader of Palestine's Arabs collaborated with the
Nazis to murder Jews in Europe before they could reach their
ancestral homeland. You'll also learn why most of Palestine's Arabs
never identified themselves as "Palestinians" until after the 1967
War; the extraordinary lengths to which Israel's military goes to
protect Palestinian civilians (and the high price Israel's soldiers
pay for this morality), and how the Palestinians have on separate
occasions rejected Israel's offers of a Palestinian state in
virtually all of the West Bank and Gaza. Brog frankly admits to
Israel's "sins both large and small," but notes that in any
fair-minded analysis these have been far out- weighed by Israel's
commitment to Western values, including freedom, democracy, and
human rights. Honest, provocative, and timely, especially given
rising anti-Semitism and the aggressive delegitimization of Israel,
David Brog's Reclaiming Israel's History is the book for every
reader who wants to understand what is really happening in the
Middle East.
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