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Nutshell Notes:
News Guides for the Rest of Us
Author: Amanda Roraback
Retail Price: $9.95
Pub. Date: July 2006 (2nd
Edition)
Distribution: Midpoint Trade Books, Quality
ISBN: 0970290845
“Hamas and Abbas: Groping for a
Truce”
“Israel to Continue Gaza Raids”
“Likud may sue Kadima”
“Hamas Bows to Pressure to Recognize
Israel”
You say if only there were Cliffs
Notes to understand world history or the Middle
East, you’d read it. Well now there is a
“flip-book” that makes all clear.
The public is daily barraged with
media stories like these about a crisis in the
Middle East that is as complicated as it is
controversial. For the uninformed, the reports pop
up like the last episode in a 4000-year old soap
opera featuring unfamiliar characters and confusing
plot lines. Others have been taught only one side of
the story and maintain unfairly biased
perspectives.
In order to remedy both of these
problems, Amanda Roraback has produced the
first “flip-book” on the Middle East crisis dealing
equally with two perspectives on the
Israel-Palestine question in a single volume titled
“Israel-Palestine in a Nutshell.” Her
language is simple and the presentation is easy to
read with short chapters, maps and lists of terms.
Peruse “Israel in a Nutshell” to
learn about anti-Semitism, Zionism, the 1948 “War of
Independence,” and the history of the peace process.
Flip the book over to read about Islam, the Ottoman
Empire, the 1948 “Catastrophe (al-Nakbah)”
and Palestinian refugees. Together they illustrate
how deeply passions lie on both sides of the
“barrier.”
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