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View Larger Image Abu Ghraib: The Politics Of Torture Meron Benvenisti; John Gray; Barbara Ehrenreich; Richard Grossinger; Charles Stein; Mark Danner; David Matlin; David Levi Strauss; Brooke Warner ISBN: 9781556435508 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Publication Date: 2005 Binding: Softcover More About this Book
View Larger Image Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948 Meron Benvenisti ISBN: 9780520211544 Publisher: Univ of California Pr Publication Date: 2000 Binding: Hardcover As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. These experiences in Benvenisti's youth are central to this book, and the story that he tells helps explain how during this century an Arab landscape, physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state. Benvenisti first discusses the process by which new Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine (his name for the Holy Land, thereby defining it as a land of Jews and Arabs). He then explains how the Arab landscape has been transformed through war, destruction, and expulsion into a flourishing Jewish homeland accommodating millions of immigrants. The resulting encounters between two peoples who claim the same land have raised great moral and political dilemmas, which Benvenisti presents with candor and impartiality. Benvenisti points out that five hundred years after the Moors left Spain there are sufficient landmarks remaining to preserve the outlines of Muslim Spain. Even with sustained modern development, the ancient scale is still visible. Yet a Palestinian returning to his ancestral landscape after only fifty years would have difficulty identifying his home. Furthermore, Benvenisti says, the transformation of Arab cultural assets into Jewish holy sites has engendered a struggle over the "signposts of memory" essential to both peoples. SACRED LANDSCAPE raises troublesome questions that most writers on the Middle East avoid. The now-buried Palestinian landscape remains a symbol and a battle standard for Palestinians and Israelis. But it is Benvenisti's continuing belief that Eretz Israel/Palestine has enough historical and physical space for the people of both nations and that it can one day be a shared homeland. More About this Book Other editions: Softcover - 2001
View Larger Image City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem Meron Benvenisti ISBN: 9780520207684 Publisher: Univ of California Pr Publication Date: 1998 Binding: Softcover The domain of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, Jerusalem is a perpetual contest: its shrines, housing projects, and bulldozers compete in a scramble for possession. In "City of Stone", Benevenisti, one of Jerusalem's most respected authorities, presents an integrated history of the city that does not fall prey to any one version of its past. 14 photos. 7 maps. More About this Book Other editions: Hardcover - 1996
View Larger Image Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land Meron Benvenisti ISBN: 9780520085671 Publisher: Univ of California Pr Publication Date: 1995 Binding: Hardcover As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Palestine, the only solution that he feels will bring lasting peace. More About this Book
West Bank and Gaza Atlas Meron Benvenisti; Shlomo Khayat ISBN: 9780813379845 Publisher: Westview Pr Publication Date: 1990 Binding: Softcover More About this Book
The Shepherds' War: Collected Essays (1981-1989) Meron Benvenisti; West Bank Data Base Project ISBN: 9789653560109 Publisher: Jerusalem Post Publication Date: 1989 More About this Book
Conflicts and Contradictions: One of Israel's Leading Commentators Reflects on Israel, the Arabs and the West Bank Meron Benvenisti ISBN: 9780935437270 Publisher: Sure Sellers Inc Publication Date: 1988 Binding: Softcover More About this Book
1987 Report: Demographic, Economic, Legal, Social, and Political Developments in the West Bank Meron Benvenisti; West Bank Data Base Project ISBN: 9780813306889 Publisher: Jerusalem Post Publication Date: 1987 More About this Book
The West Bank Handbook: A Political Lexicon Meron Benvenisti; Danny Rubinstein; Ziad Abu-Zayed ISBN: 9789653100015 Publisher: Jerusalem Post Publication Date: 1986 Binding: Softcover More About this Book
1986 Report: Demographic, Economic, Legal, Social and Political Developments in the West Bank Meron Benvenisti ISBN: 9780813304106 Publisher: Westview Pr Publication Date: 1986 Binding: Softcover More About this Book Other editions: Softcover - 1986
Conflicts and Contradictions Meron Benvenisti ISBN: 9780394536477 Publisher: Random House Inc Publication Date: 1986 Binding: Hardcover More About this Book
West Bank Data Project: A Survey of Israel's Policies Meron Benvenisti ISBN: 9780844735443 Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Publication Date: 1984 Binding: Softcover More About this Book Other editions: Hardcover - 1984
Jerusalem, the Torn City Meron Benvenisti ISBN: 9780816607952 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Publication Date: 1976 More About this Book

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