📗 Libro en inglés ENEMIES AND NEIGHBOURS

ECONOMIST SUNDAY TIMES FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Comprehensive and compelling A nuanced landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians Justin Marozzi The TimesA century after Britain s Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish national home in Palestine veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major new history of one of the most polarising conflicts of the modern age Drawing on a wide range of sources from declassified documents to oral testimonies and his own decades of reporting Enemies and Neighbours brings much needed perspective and balance to the long and unresolved struggle between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land Beginning in the final years of Ottoman ruleand the British Mandate period when Zionist immigration transformed Palestine in the face of mounting Arab opposition the book re examines the origins of what was a doomed relationship from the start It sheds fresh light on critical events such as the Arab rebellion of the 1930s Israel s independence and the Palestinian catastrophe Nakba in Arabic of 1948 the watershed of the 1967 war two Intifadas the Oslo Accords and Israel s shift to the right It traces how after five decades of occupation ever ex