A Vision of Venice in Watercolour (Royal Academy Collections)

A Vision of Venice in Watercolour (Royal Academy Collections)
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A Vision of Venice in Watercolour (Royal Academy Collections)
Royal Academy of Arts
Manufacturer: Royal Academy Books
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Venice, with its stunning architecture, earth colors, and atmospheric light, has had a great effect on British artist Ken Howard's work for over 30 years. Here he paints "contre jour," with the intense light reflecting off water, rooftops, or piazzas, building his watercolors with wash upon wash of transparent. His subjects include St. Mark's Square, the Salute, Campo S. Angelo, and the famed fish market.

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Visions of Venice
Michael Spender
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...one of the best surveys of costume in the western world we've seen....This...could easily become the design bible of any costume shop.--Stage Director

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Fashion in Costume 1200-1980
Joan Nunn
Manufacturer: The Herbert Press
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Graphic Classics Volume 3: H. G. Wells - 2nd Edition (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels))
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A new way to access classic lit.

The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds

Graphic Classics Volume 3: H. G. Wells - 2nd Edition (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels))
H. G. Wells , Antonella Caputo , Rod Lott , Dan O'Neill , Skip Williamson , Simon Gane , Seth Frail , Nick Miller , Brad Teare , Rich Tommaso , and Milton Knight
Manufacturer: Eureka Productions
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Book Description

Graphic Classics: H.G. Wells is a completely revised second edition of the third volume in the Graphic Classics series. It features three new comics adaptations: "The Time Machine" by Antonella Caputo and Seth Frail, "The Invisible Man" by Rod Lott and Simon Gane, and "The Inexperienced Ghost" by Tom Pomplun and Rich Tommaso. Plus returning stories adapted by Dan O'Neill, Skip Williamson, Milton Knight, Brad Teare and Nick Miller, including the story of Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds."

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A new way to access classic lit........2007-04-06

Being a big fan of classic and horror literature I happened across these books quite by accident . I was immediatley struck by the talent of the artists across the board ranging from the comedic interpretations to the serious. These graphic novels are a wonderful way to access Well's work whether you are a novice or devoted follower. But be warned they are addictive and you will want to colleect the whole series .

The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds.......2005-06-05

H.G. Wells wrote some amazing stories. There are so many classic tales it is easy to forget that they all come from the same talented man. Of course, he is one of the founders of Science Fiction, single-handily creating many of the sub-genres that can be found within its boarders. The alien invasion, the insane scientist who falls victim to his own experiment, the vision of a dark apocalyptic future, they all come springing from Wells's brain.

Graphics Classics has again taken these fantastic tales and mixed them with talented illustrators for a unique storytelling experience. Nine stories in total have been adapted, from his most famous epics to a few sharp satires. The blend is nice, highlighting Wells's skills beyond what is generally known.

This volume contains:

The Invisible Man - One of Wells's most renowned adventures, and one of the best-adapted from the Graphics Classics series. The story is longer than is usually found in Graphics Classics, and is allowed to play out in its brutal entirety. The art is especially well-suited to the story, giving a cartoony and Victorian feel.

The Inexperienced Ghost - What starts off as a humorous tale of a ghost who isn't sure how to be a ghost, this ghost story takes an odd turn when a human tries to enter the ghost world. A melancholy ending.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles - A cautionary tale about the dangers of wish-fulfillment. Especially when the Miracle Worker isn't too bright.

The Temptation of Harrington - A text-with-pictures adaptation of an artist and his business.

The War of the Worlds - Instead of adapting Wells's popular invasion yarn, this tells the tale of the infamous Halloween night when Orson Welles broadcast his radio adaptation, and the US nation panicked.

Le Mari Terrible - Another text-and-pictures adaptation. Short and sassy with a great piece by Lisa K. Weber.

The Man with a Nose - A very odd story of a man with the world's ugliest nose.

The Time Machine - Another long adaptation, with some great art. A fearful vision of the future of mankind, with the Morlocks looking nice and freaky.

The Star - A short but interesting tale of the unimportance of humanity, when seen in context of the whole planet. The art is excellent.

The World's Worsts: A Compendium of the Most Ridiculous Feats, Facts, & Fools of All Time
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Les Krantz
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The World's Worsts is the latest compendium of quirky information and vamped–up trivia from Pop Culture guru Les Krantz. This entertaining and utterly addictive reference taps into the dark side of human nature and the less–than–stellar and perhaps best forgotten moments in history.

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RICH THE LIFE OF RICHARD BURTON
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Rich: Life of Richard Burton (Coronet Books)
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Melvyn Bragg
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Variety Music Cavalcade 1620-1969: A Chronology of Vocal and Instrumental Music Popular in the United States [Third Edition]
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Variety Music Cavalcade, 1620-1969;: A Chronology of Vocal and Instrumental Music Popular in the United States
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Variety Music Cavalcade: Musical-Historical Review 1620-1969 (A Chronology of Vocal and Instrumental Music Popular in the United States)
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The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming (Steve Jackson Games)
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Hilarious book for any Munchkin fan!

Great for laughs.

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James Desborough , and Steve Mortimer
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Hilarious book for any Munchkin fan!.......2003-08-25

I've been a fan of the D&D spoof game "Munchkin" for a long time. It's got to be one of my all-time favorites! Whenever my friends and I get together we play it, and it always ends up with everyone rolling around laughing. This book is written along the same lines (published by Steve Jackson Games I believe) and is just as funny! Anyone who has an understanding of what AD&D is like will love it, even if they have never heard of the "Munchkin" game. I had a great time reading it, and I bought it for several of my friends as birthday gifts recently! Great read, well worth the price!! Would recommend to any gamer!

Great for laughs........2002-10-07

if you expect to come out of this book a better person. Forget. If you want a good laugh. Then by all means get this book!

Brilliant.......2002-08-13

Having owned this book since it came out, I can heartily recommend this book.

Having a lot of experience in gaming, I read through and could see where the author was coming from. Every incident he described, I had seen, every tactic in that book has been tried, and every ridiculous excuse and strategy has been done, and worked before. Side splittingly funny in itself, it is twice as damaging to your laughter muscles if you have a long experience with those annoying players who we unfondly call "munchkins"

Brilliant.......2002-08-13

Having owned this book since it came out, I can heartily recommend this book.

One of my favorite gaming books, ever.......2001-03-24

When we started our Shadowrun campaign last year, the GM mentioned that he'd be watching for people who took Phobia: Man-Made Satellites. I, being a relative novice at munchkinization, asked why, and he pointed me to this book.

I've actually had this for a while, but it is, by far, the single funniest book I've seen or read in years.

The basic setup is pretty straightforward. There's a chapter on general munchkin strategies, and them specific strategies for fantasy, modern, sci-fi, horror, supers, and live-action games. There is also a section on dealing with munchkin players, intended for the GM. There's even a quiz to tell you how munchkin you are, and how bad your players are.

Is there useful stuff in there? Depends on your definition of useful, but it's all funny, and the GM section does give somewhat useful strategies.

But, it is side-splittingly funny. The first time I ever read it, my sides hurt from laughing so hard.

If you get a chance, read it...it's great.

One Phone Call Away : Secrets of a Master Networker
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Network Your Way to Success

Get over your fear of networking.

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The maxim “It's not what you know, it's who you know” goes a long way toward explaining why some people are more successful in their careers than others. But it's not only who you know. More important, it's what you know about who you know. Just collecting business cards is pointless.

But as Jeffrey Meshel points out, most people can dramatically increase their “who you know” quotient once they understand the secrets of a master networker. Meshel, who now has more than 4,500 contacts in his Rolodex, shares the secrets that have helped him become a star in the financial world. For instance, he explains how to:

• stop thinking “What's in it for me?” and start asking “How can I help you?”
• overcome shyness when meeting people
• learn how to sell yourself
• become a “connector” who puts others in touch
• plant seeds now that will eventually pay off

Filled with fascinating stories and easy-to-master lessons, One Phone Call Away is perfect for anyone who wants to capitalize on the strengths of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances—and take a career to the next level.

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Network Your Way to Success .......2007-09-20

Jeffrey W. Meshel tells stories and shares networking experiences that reveal how he became a success by building an extensive web of relationships. He asserts that your existing list of contacts should be so far-reaching that your next big sale, job or opportunity is always just "one phone call away." Meshel explains the tenets of help-based networking, a system wherein you succeed by helping others succeed. His mantra is to tap into, "the power of who you know." This is a narrative, and not exactly a networking how-to manual. While his information about starting a networking group or joining one is quite helpful, Meshel often leaves it up to you to extract the practical advice from his experiences. Yet we find that this extra level of thinking is quite worthwhile if you are developing a business or a sales practice, and need support and contacts.

Get over your fear of networking........2007-07-30

Jeffrey Meshel has become a master networker, because he does it to help others. He tries to go out of his way to connect two people that can help one another, and the great thing is that it brings business in to his company as well.

One Phone Call Away gives great tips for novices on how to overcome shyness and how to control the perception others have of you. This part was very helpful to me as someone just starting to enter the business world. He also has tips for expert networkers about organizations they can join, and how they can expand their networks. I assume those tips are great also. They sounded good for CEOs and other executives.

I found myself with two opinions throughout this book. The first was very positive and appreciative of the advice to ask "How can I help others?" and not "What's in it for me?" It shows that networking is not a selfish thing to, but rather a very productive business practice.

The second opinion stems from my own desire to not change my behavior because of money or my status position. Because Meshel networks with executives and other high status people, he finds it profitable to adopt habits of the rich and famous. One example he gives is paying twice as much for a yearly health club membership to be an "executive member", which ended up giving him business opportunities with other executive members he met at the gym. This is probably simply a sound business practice. I just don't like the thought of putting myself above the regular members of the gym.

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Cat Cromar
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Networking Is Important.......2007-06-08

Jeffrey Meshel has written a good book on how more effectively make, grow and keep your business relationships. He has filled the book with personal stories of how he has helped others and been helped by others....all of it leading to future success.

My favorite part is on pages 141 - 143 where he talks about one of the drawbacks of being a good networker is that sometimes you are forced to meet with people who waste your time. Yep, that happens!!! But he lets the reader know that the good people you encounter out-number the losers.

Meshel has had a successful business career, and his outgoing networking activities have contributed to his financial gains. Those who discredit a network of professional contacts can't hold a candle to what you will read in One Phone Call Away.

Interesting And Enjoyable.......2007-04-12

Some very useful tips and insights on how to succeed by helping others to succeed first. Somewhat too pedantic and a bit narcissistic for my tastes, more of a biography really, but the stories and anecdotes do illuminate universal lessons. A useful and highly personalized self-help book.

A Good Read.......2006-09-03

"One Phone Call Away" is a nice easy-to-read primer on networking. The book's author offers lots of great networking tips and even talks about networking groups. I also like the fact that the author operates from the "what can I do for you" mentality instead of the "what's in it for me" mentality.

Although Harvey Mackay gives it a glowing recommendation, I still prefer Harvey's "Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty."

JLP, AllFinancialMatters.com

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Acclaimed historian and biographer Douglas Brinkley, the New York Times bestselling author of Tour of Duty and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc, returns with an in–depth biography of Father Michael J. McGivney, the Roman Catholic priest who stood up to anti–Papal prejudice in America and founded The Knights of Columbus.

"Father McGivney's vision remains as relevant as ever in the changed circumstances of today's Church and society."

––Pope John Paul II

Just about every day Catholic laymen bound in a common association gather to advance the welfare of their communities. They meet in harbor towns of Nova Scotia, suburban New Jersey, Mexican cities and Philippine villages. Some will help families pay off medical bills or secure aid for disaster victims. Others will help finance Catholic schools or independent living for people with disabilities.

They are the Knights of Columbus, the legacy of Father Michael J. McGivney. Since Father McGivney's cause for canonization began in 1997, the spreading of his story has increased. The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. has added a stained–glass widow depicting his image.

Father McGivney dedicated his life to the spiritual and physical welfare of others, creating the Knights of Columbus to provide insurance for the protection of widows and orphans. Today, a growing number of schools, medical centres and social service agencies named for him associate their work with his charisma, and the Knights of Columbus insures the lives of more than 1.2 million men, women and children.

Parish Priest CD: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism

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Douglas; Fenster, Julie; Julie, Fenster Brinkley
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In July 2000, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused to negotiate a peace offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David. At the end of September the Palestinians then launched their second intifada, an outbreak of terrorism in the heart of Israel’s cities that continues to this day. The unprecedented violence drove Barak from office and brought to power the feared hard-liner Ariel Sharon.

In RIGHT TO EXIST, Yaacov Lozowick, an Israeli historian, describes his evolution from a liberal peace activist into a reluctant supporter of Sharon. In making sense of his own political journey, Lozowick rewrites the whole history of Israel, delving into the roots of the Zionist enterprise and tracing the long struggle to establish and defend the Jewish state in the face of implacable Arab resistance and widespread international hostility.

Lozowick examines each of Israel’s wars from the perspective of classical “just war” theory, from the fight for independence to the present day. Subjecting the country’s founders and their descendants to unsparing scrutiny, he concludes that Israel is neither the pristine socialist utopia its founders envisioned, nor the racist colonial enterprise portrayed by its enemies. Refuting dozens of pernicious myths about the conflict—such as the charge that Israel stole the land from its rightful owners, or that Arabs and Jews are locked in a “cycle of violence” for which both bear equal blame—RIGHT TO EXIST is an impassioned moral history of extraordinary resonance and power.

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Not what you think..........2007-05-21

i read this book to give myself an education on the Middle East problems and who was to blame for them. i found a book filled with facts and history that enlightened me profoundly. Unfortunately for the author, when i finished the book i didn't hold with the most of the views he expressed in the book. His facts left me more knowledgeable about what happened, although in the end, i could not agree with him in the end on why it was alright that it did happen that way.
After reading his book i feel Lozowick's moral defence falls flat on its face.

What the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about.......2006-12-31

In this phenomenal work, Yaakov Lozowick , the director of the archives at Yad Vashem,Israel's Holocaust Museum and the author of "Hitler's Bureaucrats, The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil, embarks on both a moral evaluation of Israel's wars for survival, as well as an indictment on the bigots of the world, who deny tiny Israel's right to exist.
As Cynthia Ozick describes so eloquently "The title alone - the scandal of calling into question a living nation's existence-ought to shame the prevaricators and defamers, whether they be professors in universities , media distorters, peace activists' who justify terror, morally deformed intellectuals, self-deceiving unconfused haters, or merely the herd of the easily led"
The introduction describes why the author, a lifelong liberal and peace activist, in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo process, and Arafat's launching of war of terror against Israel's populace, voted for Ariel Sharon of the center right Likud Party,traditionallly regarded as a hawk and hardliner(although his record as Prime Minister was to prove the opposite).
Lozowick describes how former Prime Minster, the center left Ehud Barak, at Camp David 2000, offered the Palestinian Authority the whole of Gaza and almost all of the West Bank, (including most of East Jerusalem), and in response Arafat stormed out of the talks and launched a terror war against the Israeli people, in which thousands of Israeli Jews (mainly women and children) have been murdered, maimed, terrorized, widowed and orphaned.

In response to Arab terror war against them, the Israeli people voted for Ariel Sharon, war hero who had been vilified by Israel's enemies around the world as well as by section of Israel's left.
The election of Sharon led to a barrage of intemperate condemnation of Israel by the UN, the international media, world governments and groups like Amnesty International, placing all the blame for the conflict on Israel's shoulders ignoring the fact that Israel had recently chosen peace and been given a war of terror instead.

Lozowick describes some of the Arab terror, such as the shooting of ten month old Jewish infant, Shalevet Pass, in her stroller on a playground, in Hebron, the murder of five month old Yehuda Shoham who had his head smashed in by a rock thrown at his parents car, and the bombing of the Dolphin Disco in Tel Aviv, in which 17 teenagers, mostly girls, were murdered and others cruelly maimed and disfigured.
As a historian and archivist for Yad Vashem memorial, Lozowick describes how he had unearthed snap shots of some Shoah victims. For the first time, a friend of Lozowicks , saw pictures of his father as a young man ,and of his aunts, who did not survive the Shoah. He was astounded by the striking similarity of his own daughter to one of his aunts. "It was almost as if she had been given a second chance at life. For his daughter, the discovery served as a trigger to develop a serious sense of her own particiapation in the flow of Jewish history. Fifteen year old Malki Roth was murdered at the Sbarro pizzeria in the center of Jerusalem. Israel did not react to all of these killings , until in March 2002, an Arab suicide bomber struck at the Park Hotel in Netnaya, killing twenty-nine Jews as they sat down to the Passover Seder table-the most family orientated moment of the year.

Israel reacted by launching a campaign to go after the terrorists in their own lairs , a ground assault to ensure the minimum of Arab civilians were hurt. This led to a worldwide orgy of hatred , directed at Israel, by most of the world. Shrieks of loathing told of a massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin , an allegation by the media that turned out to be false. The massacre had not taken place. It was a blood libel. The Israelis had ensured that very few civilians had died, which lead to a greater toll of casualties among Israeli soldiers.

When Jews were massacred the world was silent, when Israel decided to act , using ethics higher than any other nation , at time of war , the world erupted into hateful hysteria against Israel and all her people.

In Chapter 1 Lozowick outlines the early history of Zionism and Jewish resettlement in Israel, explaining the depths of the ancient roots of the Jews to the Land of Israel, renamed Palestine by the Romans in 70 CE in order to cut off the Jewish historical connection to the land. He refutes hate-moner Edward Said who claims that the early Zionists were not capable as seeing the Arabs as fully human; pointing out that this in fact described rather, Arab attitudes towards the Jews, with much greater justification. He also refutes the revisionist historians, who sprang up in the 1980's with the goal of distorting the history of the Land of Israel to deny any Jewish rights there. Lozowick recounts the bloody Arab pogrom against the Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1920,which started the war against the Jews presence in the Land of Israel, that has continued for the last 86 years, the 1921 attacks on Jews in Jaffa and Petach Tikva, the massacre and destruction of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron in 1929 , together with further pogroms in Jerusalem , and the Nazi-inspired war by the Arabs against the Land of Israel's Jewish population of 1936 to 1939 in which thousands of Jews were butchered.
During the British Mandate over 'Palestine' from 1917-1947, the Jews and Arabs made many of the key decisions regarding each other. The Jews made settlements a central element of their efforts, the Arabs chose violent rejection of Jewish presence and sovereignty as their hallmark. Not much has changed in eight decades, as the author points out.

While people have been emigrating and changing the demographics of their new lands throughout human history (and it is unfair to describe this as 'colonialism'), in human history there has never been a case where a group migrated to a land it had lost for longer than living memory. Indeed very few nations have lasted over two thousand years as the Jews have. "Moreover" Lozowick reminds us, if the Jews are a nation, how can it be moral, to deny them a place of their own, like other nations. At most you can measure the morality of a nations behavior, not its existence."
I would go so far as to say that denying a nation's right to exist is racism, akin to Nazism, hence in the opinion of the reviewer anti-Zionism is Nazism.
From 1920 Jews have been attacked in the Land of Israel because they are Jews because the Arabs did not want Jews in Palestine, hence the fashionable distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is a false one.
The author also describes tow parallel developments during the British Mandate , the immigration of Arabs into 'Palestine' by the hundreds of thousands -too many Arab villages were growing up next to Jewish ones to fast to be explained merely as natural population growth. While the British recorded the statistics of Jewish immigration, they did not count the masses of Arabs crossing into the Palestine Mandate.
Secondly the hundreds of thousands of Jews clamoring to get out of Europe , and into 'Palestine' were blocked from doing so , and were mostly dead by 1945. Every single Jew who wanted to immigrate to Palestine, but was denied the chance by the growing restrictions can be laid to the account of Palestinian violence and British appeasement; the number probably runs to the hundreds of thousands. Even this small fraction of Jewish dead exceeds all of the losses of Palestinian lives in the conflict with Zionism...the Palestinian decision at this time was to join the anti-Jewish camp at it's violent edge. Let this be kept in mind when the Palestinian propagandists decry their victimization by the victims of the Nazis."
The author also points out how although millions of people around the world , have been made into refugees , the only ones not to have been resettled have been the Palestinian Arabs, who have retained their refugee status, in order to use as a weapon against Israel. This in contrast to the 700 000 Jewish refugees expelled, after generations, from Arab countries in 1948, and all were resettled in Israel.
The author, while pointed out that Israeli actions have not always been perfect or praiseworthy, have been of higher moral caliber to all other armies in wartime, regardless of all the sick propaganda to the contrary. He points out that never has a Jew entered a Palestinian home and killed a Palestinian child in her bed, as Arabs have done countless times to Jewish children.

Lozowick still believes that the time may still come for a peace deal leading to two states living side by side, but that first the Arabs must genuinely accept Israel's right to exist, and give up the dream of controlling all of the Land of Israel, which would lead to the entire land being completely emptied of Jews, as most of Europe would be during World War II.
The author believes that this will take many generations, well over a century, before they realize that they cannot drive the Jews out.
It would help of course if they were not encouraged in their genocidal dreams, by far-left bigots in academia, the media, NGO's and politics to name a few of the hotbeds of anti-Israel hate.
The Right of Israel to exist is what the conflict is all about and always has been ,not about 'occupation, 'apartheid', refugees', or any of the other Goebellesque propaganda ploys designed to set up Israel and her people for destruction i.e. to prepare a second holocaust.

The truth about Israel from a moral pooint of view.......2006-12-27

This is a powerful, ethical and honest discussion of Israel's history and the history of her hundreds of millions of Arab neighbors who have done all they can to destroy this tiny country (about the size of Vermont). The author is a historian of the Holocaust who truly believed in the Oslo accords and the possibility of peace with the Palestinians, only to learn that the process was a sham. This book does an excellent job of explaining how the powerful Arab countries of the Middle East exploit the Palestinians to permit the perpetuation of war and why the Palestinians have rejected and will reject any solution that permits Israel to continue to exist as a Jewish state and democracy.

Defending the defenders.......2006-07-13

In a work both impassioned and measured, Yaacov Lozowick, director of the archives at Yad Vashem, Israel's holocaust Museum, offers a moral evaluation of Israel's conduct in successive wars, showing its punctilious regard for the norms of warfare and the aspirations of the liberal democratic state. Lozowick is a man of the Left disabused of the prospects of peace in the wake of the Oslo war's outbreak in September 2000 and the collapse of prospects for a general Arab-Israeli peace. International outcry directed almost exclusively at Israel for both the outbreak of hostilities and its conduct in combating Palestinian terrorism moved Lozowick to enumerate the charges, mostly malicious, levelled at Israel's conduct and ultimately its existence. He accompanies the arguments with a helpful autobiographical element that underscores the evolution of his political views in relation to the events described. To witness through his retelling the collapse of cherished illusions about peace prospects as one event after another undermined them enhances the impact of his case.

Lozowick shows that in one war after another--1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 and 1982, plus lesser conflicts--Israel has generally conducted itself with great restraint over and above what has been demonstrated by other states in comparable conflicts. As Lozowick notes of the 1967 war, for example, while it brought nearly one million Arab civilians under Israeli rule, no expulsions or massacres followed, showing that the lessons of earlier Israeli military lapses in which Arab civilians had been killed (Kibiya, Kassem) had been duly learned.

He concludes that "the will to murder Jews was never the result of oppression and can never be resolved by removing it" - a neat summary of his view that the conflict between Arab and Jew is not the product of grievances that Israeli policy can assuage.

Some readers might argue with Lozowick's philosophical basis: it is arguable whether just war theory can possess all the clear-cut answers he would like at his disposal to moral dilemmas posed by a war in which even the pretense of a rule book has been discarded by suicide bombers. Others might object to his unapologetic effort to set a higher bar for Israeli conduct than that set for all other states. But problematic or otherwise, the more stringent formula he adopts only makes his ultimate conclusions the more persuasive.

Too passionate for the rational amongst us!.......2005-10-26

This book is indeed passionate. Too passionate for those who really want to learn about and understand the situation in the Middle East. In the first few pages we are told about little Jewish babies slaughtered in their cribs as Arabs from Pakistan to Morocco celebrated! Come on! First, Pakistanis are not Arabs! Neither is their neighbor Afghanistan or its neighbor Iran. The Arab world starts in Iraq. Indeed, the languages of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan are ALL Indo-European -- meaning they are closer to English than to Arabic. It is out of this fantasy of a geography that this book is written to perpetuate myths and calm Zionist guilt about the Palestinian Nakba (dispossession and ethnic cleansing). Second, I am not sure where this new blood libel (killing babies in cribs) against Palestinians is coming from (the ratio of deaths in the current Intifada is still 3 to 1 Palestinian to Israeli civilians with higher percentage of children on the Palestinian side.

This book potentially perpetuates more anti-Semitism than a more historically honest description of the situation of the middle east. Its point about Israel's right to exist is trivial. Israel is a fact of life in the Middle East. It does exist. The question should be does Palestine has a right to exist as a neighbor to Israel, where Palestinians can live in peace without Israeli checkpoints, one-ton bombs and sniping settlers?

"The Right to Exist".(Books and Authors)(Book review) : An article from: Midstream

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Henry Delfiner
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Title: "The Right to Exist".(Books and Authors)(Book review)
Author: Henry Delfiner
Publication: Midstream (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
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Volume: 52 Issue: 1 Page: 46(2)

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RIGHT TO EXIST a Moral Defense of Israel's Wars

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RIGHT TO EXIST a Moral Defense of Israel's Wars
Yaacov Lozowick
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