The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict

Walter Laqueur, Barry M. Rubin, Barry Rubin

Penguin Books, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 580 pages

The Israel-Arab Reader is a thorough and up-to-date guide to the continuing crisis in the Middle East. It covers the full spectrum of the Israel-Arab conflict from the earliest days, through the wars and peace-making efforts of the Camp David agreements, up to the Israel-PLO and Israel-Jordan peace accords. This comprehensive reference includes speeches, letters, articles, and reports dealing with all the major interests in the area from all of the relevant political parties and world leaders. Completely updated, consolidated, and revised throughout, The Israel-Arab Reader contains new sections on the Wye River agreement, and other recent developments, making it the essential resource on the ongoing conflict.

Contents

• Manifesto 1882: 3
• The Basle Declaration: 9
• Declaration November 2 1917: 16

About the author

Walter Louis Laqueur was born in Breslau, Germany on May 26, 1921. At the age of 17, he fled just a few days before Kristallnacht and found his way to Palestine, where he was known as Ze'ev. He worked briefly on a kibbutz before moving to Jerusalem, where he spent a year enrolled in the Hebrew University and covered the Middle East as a journalist. In 1955, he moved to London, where he was a founder and editor of The Journal of Contemporary History and a founder of Survey, a foreign affairs journal. From 1965 to 1994 he was director of the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, a leading archive in London. He became a scholar of the Holocaust, the collapse of the Soviet Union, European decline, the Middle East conflict, and global terrorism. He wrote numerous books including A History of Zionism, A History of Terrorism, The Terrible Secret, Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West, and The Future of Terrorism: ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Alt-Right written with Christopher Wall. His memoirs included Thursday's Child Has Far to Go; Worlds Ago; Best of Times, Worst of Times; and Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist. He was also the editor of The Holocaust Encyclopedia. He died on September 30, 2018 at the age of 97.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict; Penguin books
• Authors: Walter Laqueur, Barry M. Rubin, Barry Rubin
• Editors: Walter Laqueur, Barry M. Rubin, Barry Rubin
• Edition: 6, illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Penguin Books, 2001
• ISBN: 0140297138, 9780140297133
• Length: 580 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Political; History / Middle East / General; Political Science / International Relations / General