Burning issues; understanding and misunderstanding the Middle East: a 40-year chronicle.9780970115706 Burning issues; understanding and misunderstanding the Middle East: a 40-year chronicle. Ed. by John Mahoney This article is about the British actor. For the U.S. court of appeals judge, see John Christopher Mahoney. John Mahoney (born June 20, 1940) is a Tony and Screen Actors Guild Award winning English/American actor known for playing the retired police officer father, et al. Selwa Press 2007 439 pages $16.95 Paperback DS119 Composed of articles from The Link, a periodical published since 1968 by Americans for Middle East Understanding, this collection is a "40-year chronicle" more in terms of the issues it addresses surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Occupied territories than in terms of the date of the articles that have been chosen for inclusion, most of which are from more recent decades. Essentially unified by their recognition of the ongoing injustice suffered by the Palestinians in their confrontation with Zionism, the articles otherwise approach the topic from a variety of perspectives, including that of the mother of Rachel Corrie Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. , the young American woman crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer while attempting to nonviolently resist demolitions of Palestinian homes; various officers of AMEU AMEU Americans for Middle East Understanding AMEU Atlantic Maritime Employees Union AMEU ASROC Missile Echo Unit on some of the basic historical background of the conflict; the founder of the project Deir Yassin Remembered, which is devoted to preserving the memory of one of the Arab villages ethnically cleansed by the Irgun Zionist militia in 1948; a member of one of the Christian Peacemaker Teams Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) is an international organization set up to support teams of peace workers in conflict areas around the world. These teams believe that they can lower the levels of violence through nonviolent direct action, human rights documentation, and active in the Occupied Territories; American journalists writing on anti-Palestinian bias in the press; a professor of biblical studies concerned with the justifications for ethnic cleansing found in the Bible; a Palestinian Christian who became a refugee in 1948 at age 12; and the lieutenant on watch aboard the USS Liberty as it came under Israeli attack in 1967. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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