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| Title | : | Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (988 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 057123741X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-06 |
| Language | : | English |
He has been banned from six Arab countries and kidnapped twice. . David Hirst was for many years the Middle Eastern correspondent of the Guardian. His seminal book on the Arab - Israeli conflict, The Gun and the Olive Branch, was published in 1977 and revised and re-released in 2003
'Beware of Small States' wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870. To understand Lebanon's history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has come to assume a disproportionate, dangerous power of its own. Iran and Israel now face each other in the hills of south Lebanon. David Hirst, author of "The Gun and the Olive Branch", is a hugely respected commentator on the Arab-Israeli crisis. In a masterly narrative, he gives a much-needed, comprehensive history of the country and its conflicts, culminating with the recent war in Gaza and its fallout in Leba
. Hirst is solidly in the Palestinians' corner throughout; he inveighs against Israeli policies of ethnic cleansing and blocking progress toward a settlement of the Palestinian issue. for provoking the 2003 invasion of Iraq; and anoints the Iranians as the only true victor of America's war in Iraq. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Displaced Palestinians flooded into southern Lebanon following the first Arab-Israeli War (1948) and spawned a guerilla 'state-within-a-state' on Israel's northern border. From Publishers Weekly A former Middle Eastern corres
Iver E. Peterson said A great book, with notable flaws. My Phalangist friends here in Beirut say, Oh, Hirst - he is in the pay of Hezbollah. While I'm certain that's not so, it's true that Hirst is strangely admiring of armed and militant Islam and of the Iranian and Syrian cats-paw posing as protectors of Lebanon in the South of the country, and he is unnecessarily venomous towards Israel in several instances. For example, gestures toward peace are always sincere coming from Syria and other Ara. Exciting surprise JPeter Scott-Hansen Although I had a small part in researching this book by translating one of the source books, I had no idea how amazing the final book would become. This is a must-read for anyone who really is interested in understanding the background to the mess which continues to haunt us. There is plenty of blame to go around, but we here in the US seldom get enough of the real picture to make sound judgements--this goes for our various governments of a. More Lebanon, Less Israel lmlm000 I began this book because I wanted a book completely dedicated to the story of Lebanon- from independence to today. However, the book is instead a retelling of the Arab-Isreali conflict with Lebanon appearing more as a bit player rather than the main character. In fact, there are certain chapters that Lebanon is barely mentioned at all. Of course, to understand Lebanon's promises and perils one needs to understand it within the larger conte
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