Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

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Do you feel like you are too nice?

Sherry Argov's Why Men Love Bitches delivers a unique perspective as to why men are attracted to a strong woman who stands up for herself. With saucy detail on every page, this no-nonsense guide reveals why a strong woman is much more desirable than a "yes woman" who routinely sacrifices herself. The author provides compelling answers to the tough questions women often ask:

-Why are men so romantic in the beginning and why do they change?

-Why do men take nice girls for granted?

-Why does a man respect a woman when she stands up for herself?

Full of much-needed advice, hilarious real-life relationship scenarios, "she says/he thinks" tables, and the author's unique "Attraction Principles," Why Men Love Bitches gives you bottom-line answers. It helps you know who you are, stand your ground, and relate to men on a whole new level. Once you've discovered the feisty attitude men find so magnetic, you'll not only increase the romantic chemistry in the relationship-you'll gain your man's love and respect with far less effort.

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Absolute M-U-S-T Have!.......2007-10-25

Every woman should read this book. Ladies, it's back to basics time. This books repeats everything your mother told, or should have told you, when you first started dating. There's a reason for this... the advice is great and it works. If you want to regain control of your dating life, feel good about yourself and stop waiting by the telephone, buy it. Another must have that you should not miss is How to be a Super Hot Woman: 339 Tips to Make Every Man Fall in Love with You and Every Woman Envy You
Both books have great information that will be helpful for every woman!

Absolutely Great!.......2007-10-23

I found this book by accident and gave it to my girlfriend when she was going through a bad breakup, and it put her right back on her feet! She raved about it so much that I just had to get one for myself and I absolutely LOVED it.

IMPORTANT: No, this book is not about playing games, and if that's the only thing you learn from it, then you should read it more carefully with your brain lamp turned on. It's teaches you to be honest with yourself, to undestand what's important in life, and how to actualy BE happy.

Oh and it's funny as hell!

GREAT BOOK.......2007-10-18

The first couple of pages actually made me say "holy crap" out loud. Those couple of pages summerized my life!! I can honestly say that this book is a must read for any woman!! I wish I had read this book 10 years ago when I started dating, it would have saved me so much agony!!

I will certainly be giving this book to my daughter, so she will not make the same mistakes I did!!

YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK:o)

So there you have it! .......2007-10-15

During a conversation, a friend of mine told me about how her long time best-friend was having "dating" disasters! We both came to the conclusion that perhaps a dating book may help out! So we purchased this book and I decided to read it first to ensure we would not "insult or hurt" her feelings... and... This book made me laugh (to the point of tears at times), kept my attention (I could not put it down) and offered sound advice (confirmed by male friends)! It was obvious the research was well documented because I selected numerous males (both friends and co-workers) and suggested a topic of: how they would respond OR what they expected, to a scenario this book gave advice about and received a 100% correct response. One guy even made the comment that HE likes to be the LION and go after the woman he is interested in...IF she is too nice, too available and esp too needy OR if she chases him, HUGE turn-off! Basically he is looking for a B*@&#!!! So there you have it! We are keeping our fingers crossed that she enjoys this book as much as we did and honestly, I would read it again just for the humor!!

VERY GOOD!!!!.......2007-10-03

This book was funny and very true. Bottom line-when you treat men like crap, they treat you better. I don't think its for everyone though, some people are just too nice and probally wont be able to handle some of the advice that the author gives. This isn't a bible, just a guide and a very good guide at that.

Por que los hombres aman a las cabronas / Why Men Love Bitches: De tapete a chica de ensueno / From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding her Own in a Relationship

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Otro libro de autoayuda

Por que los hombres aman a las cabronas / Why Men Love Bitches: De tapete a chica de ensueno / From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding her Own in a Relationship
Sherry Argov
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Porque Los Hombres Aman a las Cabronas/ Why Men Love Bitches

ASIN: 9681341600

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Otro libro de autoayuda.......2007-07-30

Por qué los hombres aman a las ca... se inscribe en la nueva honda de libros de autoayuda con títulos que usan palabrotas para ser irreverentes, llamar la atención y vender más... cosa que al parecer ¡funciona! El texto sostiene las mismas máximas provenientes de antes de Cristo sobre la autoestima, la automotivación, el autocontrol, y la independencia, que recordarlas nunca está de más. Para algunos esto es patológicamente difícil, para otros es intuitivamente fácil y para los del medio es un proceso de aprendizaje y reprogramación. La premisa de la autora es el convertirse en una "Ca... renovada". Ca... según Sherry Argov, proviene de la palabra en inglés B*T*H, que ella traduce de las siglas en inglés al simpático "Belleza en absoluto control de sí misma" - Me gusta, ¡se lo compro!- eso sí ojo, insiste mucho en la amabilidad, educación, femineidad y dulzura como un atributos de la perra repotenciada. En sus páginas hay 100 "Principios de Atracción" que fungen de receta para que una mujer se relacione con un hombre "satisfactoriamente". Sin embargo es contradictorio que el libro se revela contra las recetas de revistas femeninas (prepárale una cena, vístete sexy, ect) y a su vez provee de otras con el mismo objetivo: tener a un macho al lado - aunque de verdad le cedo justamente, que esa no es la finalidad que postula el libro como objeto de felicidad de una mujer-. Se encuentra cierto tono conciliador entre los preceptos de la revolución femenina y algunos principios básicos de sumisión fingida para lograr justo "lo que una quiere". Si uno se pone dicotómico se encontrará perdido y desorientado entre los principios ya que algunos tienden a la pura autosatisfación y otros a la satisfacción del hombre - hace énfasis en lo distintos que son los hombres de las mujeres al estilo "Los hombres son de..."-, por eso este tipo de libros tan "precisos" deben ser leídos desde cierta madurez personal que le permita a uno distinguir la guasa, la exageración y el relleno de los verdaderos puntos a considerar poner en práctica. Los ejemplos que se exponen, pudieran ser graciosos - yo carezco de ciertos elementos de sentido del humor -no los encuentro útiles en absoluto porque no pasan de anécdotas. Podría aplicarse esta receta en distintos hombres y cada cual reaccionará distinto incluso de las experiencias citadas. Es curioso que el libro puede interpretado también en la vía opuesta "Por qué las mujeres aman a los cabrones", porque cuál sea el género, una persona segura de sí misma atrae y es el agente activo en una relación, y las personas inseguras son atraídas y son el agente pasivo... la cosa se pone interesante cuando la persona insegura cambia su actitud a segura de sí misma. En resumen... yo no compraría un libro con un título así, pero me alegro que me lo hayan regalado y haberlo leído en contra de mis prejuicios porque lo encontré ligero y en algunos puntos interesante.Por que los hombres aman a las cabronas / Why Men Love Bitches: De tapete a chica de ensueno / From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding her Own in a Relationship

Why Men Love Bitches - From Doormat To Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide To Holding Her Own In A Relationship

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Why Men Love Bitches - From Doormat To Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide To Holding Her Own In A Relationship
Sherry Argov
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Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings together new research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago have gathered both well-known and emerging scholars to demonstrate how the actions and ideas of rural workers, peasants, migrants, and women formed an integral part of the growth of the export economies of the era and to examine the underacknowledged impact such groups had on the shaping of national histories.
Responding to the fact that the more common, elite-centered “national” histories distort or erase the importance of gender, race, ethnicity, popular consciousness, and identity, contributors to this volume correct this imbalance by moving these previously overlooked issues to the center of historical research and analysis. In so doing, they describe how these marginalized working peoples of the Hispanic Caribbean Basin managed to remain centered on not only class-based issues but on a sense of community, a desire for dignity, and a struggle for access to resources. Individual essays include discussions of plantation justice in Guatemala, highland Indians in Nicaragua, the effects of foreign corporations in Costa Rica, coffee production in El Salvador, banana workers in Honduras, sexuality and working-class feminism in Puerto Rico, the Cuban sugar industry, agrarian reform in the Dominican Republic, and finally, potential directions for future research and historiography on Central America and the Caribbean.
This collection will have a wide audience among Caribbeanists and Central Americanists, as well as students of gender studies, and labor, social, Latin American, and agrarian history.

Contributors. Patricia Alvarenga, Barry Carr, Julie A. Charlip, Aviva Chomsky, Dario Euraque, Eileen Findlay, Cindy Forster, Jeffrey L. Gould, Lowell Gudmundson, Aldo A. Lauria Santiago, Francisco Scarano, Richard Turits

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The Story Of America's Working People In Song And Picture Carry It On tells the story of working people in America and how they lived, loved, worshipped, and fought for their rights. The book is built around 85 songs which capture vividly the experiences and struggles of American working people from old standards like 'Bread And Roses' and 'Solidarity Forever,' to newer anthems like 'Des Colores' and 'Rise Again.' The songs combine with text, photographs, and illustrations to create a moving and vivid history of the American labor force from the American Revolution to this day.

Carry It On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America

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Carry It On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America

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Carry It On : A History in Song of Working Men and Women

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Carry It On : A History in Song of Working Men and Women
Pete; Reiser, Bob Seeger
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Carry It On : A History in Song of Working Men and Women
Pete; Reiser, Bob Seeger
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CARRY IT ON! A HISTORY IN SONG AND PICTURE OF THE WORKING MEN AND WOMEN OF AMERICA PETE SEEGER

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CARRY IT ON! A HISTORY IN SONG AND PICTURE OF THE WORKING MEN AND WOMEN OF AMERICA PETE SEEGER
BOB REISER
Manufacturer: SIMON AND SCHUSTER
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TV series Savior.......2000-06-24

This book chronicals just about every tv series ever done. It's great.

Fifty Years of Television: A Guide to Series and Pilots, 1937-1988

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Fifty Years of Television: A Guide to Series and Pilots, 1937-1988
Vincent Terrace
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Google Brings Data Mining to the People!

Virtually everyone sees Google as, hands down, the best online search tool. Now you can use and improve on Google technology in your own applications.
Mining Google Web Services teaches you dozens of techniques for tapping the power of the Google API. Google already gives you fine-grained control over your search criteria, and this book shows you how to exert the same control in your own focused search and analysis applications. With just a little knowledge of JavaScript, VBA, Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio .NET, PHP, or Java, you will get better (and more relevant) search results--faster and more easily. Here's a little of what you'll find covered inside:

Improving the speed and accuracy of searches
Performing data mining across the Internet
Using Google Web Services to search a single website
Building search applications for mobile devices
Using caching techniques to improve application performance and reliability
Analyzing Google data
Creating searches for users with special needs
Discovering new uses for Google
Obtaining historical data using cached pages
Performing spelling checks on any text
Reducing the number of false search hits

Whether your goal is to improve your own searches or share specialized search capabilities with others, this is the one resource that will see you through the job from start to finish.

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Shelby Foote, who cut such a courtly figure in Ken Burns's PBS series The Civil War, is an uncommonly graceful writer as well, and this careful study of the 1863 Gettysburg campaign assumes the contours of a classical tragedy. Foote positions readers on the field of battle itself, among swirling smoke and clattering grapeshot, and invites us to feel for ourselves its hellishness: "men on both sides were hollering as they milled about and fired, some cursing, others praying ... not a commingling of shouts and yells but rather like a vast mournful roar." Foote's fine book is history as literature, and a welcome addition to any Civil War buff's library.

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As Good as it gets.......2007-06-27

I could write a long review about how good this book is but that would be a diservice to the author. We lost a great historian when Shelby Foote passed. He was a historian who prefered to be remembered as a novelist. As a proud Vermont Yankee, professional historian, and living historian of that period, I tend to get cranky about revisionist views or the whole Sourthern "lost cause" foolishness. However, Mr. Foote, a proud southerner, wrote about the most important event in our nation's history without the prejudice or regionalism, so many bring to the topic. He could write excellent history and tell the story with the readability of a novelist.

We are poorer for his passing but the body of work he left behind on the Civil War will remain some of the must have items in any serious collection of books about that second birth of our nation.

We'll miss you Shelby but thank you for what you left behind.

"They will attack you in the morning and they will come booming--skirmishers three-deep. You will have to fight like the devil.".......2006-07-04

Heth upon hearing a rumour that Early's men had over looked a suppy of shoes (many of his men were barefooted) when they passed though Gettysburg the week Sent his lead brigade under Johnston Pettigrew to investigate. Johnston Pettigrew returned on thr 30th of June, mindeful of Lee's warning not to bring on a battle till the whole army was at hand, prudently withdrew when he encountered Federal troopers along a creekbank west of town.
Heth still wanted those shoes so he took Pettigrew with him to repeat what he had seen to Hill. Hill responded "The only force at Gettysburg is calvalry, probably a detachment of oberservation. Mead's infantry are still down in Maryland and have not struck their tents." Heth was quick to reply "If there is no objection, I will take my division tommorrow and go to Gettysburg and get those shoes." "None in the world" said Hill.

Thus what started out as a movement for shoes ended in prehaps the most important battle of the War!

Sheby Foote is a master story teller who turns history in to classical literature. He includes many maps to help understand the grand movement of both armies.

Standing in the way of Heth's men to'get those shoes' was John Buford, a tough, Kentucky-born regular with a fondness for hard fighting. Though Hill was correct that at the moment there were only cavalry in Gettysburg, these troops (two brigades) were armed with the new seven shot Spencer carbine. They belong to Reynold's Corps who's infantry were that night camped just six miles from Gettysburg.

What would you do to 'get those shoes'?

*The title is from John Buford addressing his troops on 30 June 1863. "....You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive."

A wonderful read, and a sincere search for truth.......2006-03-28

Imagine, if you can, a book written by a modern historian that actually seeks the truth. Imagine a book written by a modern historian that is not slanted to promote his/her politics. Imagine a 20th century historian that does not even mention the sexuality (alternative or otherwise), of any historical figures in an entire book.
If you are looking for "the truth" at Gettysburg, "Stars In Their Courses" is for you. Shelby Foote is a fine author, and has written the book in a captivating manner that I highly esteem. Pick this book up and give it a try, one chapter should do the trick. You will have a good feeling afterward that you have learned something worthwhile about American History.

The Tragedy of Gettysburg.......2006-01-22

"Stars in Their Courses" is a superb narrative account of the Battle of Gettysburg, excerpted from Foote's three volume history of the Civil War. Shelby Foote, a novelist and a son of the South before becoming an historian, approaches the Gettysburg Campaign as a tragic human drama, the high tide of Confederate arms for General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the turning point of redemption for General George Meade's Army of the Potomac.

Foote's account of Gettysburg is absolutely gripping, full of the human details that make those events come alive for the student of the Civil War and the casual reader alike. Foote captures both the heroism of individuals and the sometimes blind blundering of large armies. Gettysburg is not Lee's finest hour; Foote's narrative may be fairly read to show that Lee's normally sure hand was absent over the three days of battle, allowing the Army of Northern Virginia to stumble into an unexpected battle. Lee's desire for a decisive victory and his underestimation of the long-suffering Army of the Potomac probably led him to persist in a clumsy and costly fight his army could not afford.

On the Union side, General Meade seems more driven than a driver of events, but his willingness to fight it out made possible the victory that his various valiant subordinates delivered. Meade's failure to vigorously follow up in the days after the battle probably cost the Union a chance to do much more damage to Lee's Army.

This book is highly recommended to the student of the Civil War and to the casual reader looking for a highly readable account of this critical battle.

Superb Account of the Gettysburg Campaign.......2005-02-06

Shelby Foote's monumental, three volume history of the American Civil War is widely recognized as one of the great works of the twentieth century. However, its great length - roughly three thousand pages - is undoubtedly intimidating to many readers. Fortunately, this 1994 Modern Library edition, Stars in Their Courses, the Gettysburg Campaign, circumvents this difficulty.

Stars in Their Courses is the middle chapter in the middle volume of Shelby Foote's remarkable history. This extract offers an easy way for a reader new to Shelby Foote to become acquainted with his masterpiece.

The editors of the Modern Library series should be commended for selecting this particular chapter. It is hard to imagine a better introduction to the Gettysburg Campaign. Stars in Their Courses is not only great history, it is great literature. Shelby Foote is an outstanding writer, one that happens, fortunately for us, to write history. In reviewing Foote's acclaimed historical narrative, one critic said, "It seems to me unlikely that it ever will be superseded."

Remarkably, Stars in Their Courses is entirely self-contained. A reader not familiar with Shelby Foote's writing would not realize that this Modern Library edition was actually a single chapter drawn from a much larger work. The reader has no need to reference any other sources.

Stars in Their Courses would make an excellent gift for that friend or family member that enjoys good literature, but heretofore has not developed an enthusiasm for the Civil War. The Modern Library edition is attractively bound, and printed on acid-free paper.

Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Killer Angels, would be a great companion gift to Stars in Their Courses. Shaara's focus is on specific participants in the three-day battle, especially Lee, Buford, Longstreet, Chamberlain, and Armistead. The Killer Angels was the basis for the epic movie, Gettysburg.

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Interesting discussion of minorities and refugees .......2004-12-27

This book is a collection of nine articles that deal with the treatment of minorities in Arab lands in general, and the expulsion of Jews in particular.

Mordechai Nisan begins with an discussion of the treatment of minorities by the Islamic world. That includes Jews, Copts, Armenians, Kurds, Maronites, Assyrians, and Berbers. He also asks about the status of those people who say they have been represented by Arafat. Such people have been at the forefront of the fight against minority rights. Are they really a minority as well?

Next, Walid Phares gives a report on Middle Eastern Christians. He includes the ones in southern Sudan. It's similar in most places: the Christians are vanishing from the region. And there is a systematic, general, and political abandonment of these Christians by the West.

Bat Ye'or talks about the role of dhimmitude in the exodus of the Jews from Arab countries. Dhimmis have no right to life, but must purchase it by humbly paying "protection money" to real people. Bat Ye'or reminds us that dhimmis are not slaves. They can and do earn money. That enables them to pay taxes. But they lack rights. For example, they are not permitted to defend themselves from physical attack by Muslims or testify against Muslims in court.

The fact that dhimmis are not slaves does suggest a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel, by paying sufficient protection money and humbly apologizing for existing, might be tolerated as a dhimmi nation. And then again, it still might not be tolerated.

Bat Ye'or reminds us that the Muslim world would be better off were it to denounce dhimmitude. Otherwise, Muslim relations with other nations will be adversely affected, as will interactions of Muslims and non-Muslims in the West.

Harold Troper tells about the campaign to rescue Syrian Jews, and the role of the Canadian Jewish community in achieving this.

Ya'akov Meran talks about Arab reactions to the claims of expelled Jews. One point he makes is that there have been multiple Arab requests for refugees from Israel to be paid back in land: that is, asking that Israel cede, say, a third of its land given that a third of the population in 1948 was expelled. He reminds us that 35,000 Jews were expelled from Libya, which at the time had a total population of less than one person per square kilometer. By Arab reasoning, Jews would be owed over 35,000 square kilometers from Libya alone (it gets more interesting when we add in nations such as Yemen or Iraq). The entire West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan is about 5,000 square kilometers.

Malka Hillel Shulewitz and Raphael Israeli argue for resettling the Arab refugees who are at present in refugee camps. Given how quickly large numbers of refugees have been resettled in other population exchanges, there is no excuse to abide by Arab demands to keep the refugees in camps. In addition, the camps are breeding grounds for terrorism.

Avi Beker shows how UN and UNRWA obstructionism has made the Arab refugee situation much worse. Yehuda Dominitz describes the absorption of 600,000 Jewish immigrants from Arab lands into Israel. And Pnina Morag-Talmon explains how all these immigrants have been integrated into Israeli society.

What are we to conclude from all this? I think the book suggests that refugees need to be integrated into society and not used as shock troops to fight irredentist wars.

Comprehensive, detailed, clear and moving.......2004-02-29

Following the creation of the State of Israel over 800 000 Jews were expelled from Arab lands where they had lived for centuries. Today there are virtually no Jews remaining in Arab lands. The Jews from Arab lands and their descendants constitute nearly 45 percent of the Israeli population. This book, with chapters by various authors, recounts and explains the cruel treatment of non-Muslim minority groups throughout Arab lands historically, the expulsion of the Jews from Arab lands, its implications, and the subsequent resettlement of the majority of these refugees in Israel.
The first four chapters describe the predicament of minorities, such as Jews and Christains, in the middle east under Islam. Of particular interest is a chapter by Bat Ye'or on the treatment of Jews and Christians (dhimmis) under Islam. There has historically existed systematic, deeply entrenched and stringently enforced legal, religious, economic and social programmes of discrimination against and humiliation of Jews and Christians who have refused to convert to Islam. Another chapter here describes the predicament of Christians who have suffered from massacres and genocide in such countries as Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The following section devotes three chapters to the legal and global aspects of the expulsion. The first chapter describes the expulsion as it occurred in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Egypt and Algeria. This expulsion is compared to the predicament of the Palestinian refugees of the Israeli War of Independence, and the relevance of the Jewish expulsion to the claims of the Palestinians is discussed.
The next section devotes two chapters to describing in some detail the absorption and integration of the Jews from Arab lands into Israel, their accomplishments and trials.
The book includes four Appendices. The first is the findings of the Tribunal relating to the claims of the Jews from Arab lands, by Justice Arthur J.Goldberg, concluding that the violation of the personal and property rights of the Jews from Arab lands should be acknowledged by Arab states and fair compensation rendered. The second appendix includes the evidence of four witnesses before the Tribunal. The accounts (such as that of a girl from Baghdad who was tortured and gang-raped when she was 12 for refusing to "confess" to the Bath political party of the defence ministry that her family were spies for Israel) are frightening and moving.
Thus the book offers a detailed discussion of the ancient and modern experiences of Jews from Arab lands, their achievements and tribulations, along with personal accounts. It explores many aspects of these subjects with clarity and sensitivity. This book is, in my opinion, essential reading for anyone interested in modern Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The ethnic cleansing of the Jews from the Arab world........2002-12-11

This book tells the disturbing story of the unprovoked expulsion and ethnic cleansing of the Jewish populations from the Arab countries in the Middle East surrounding the re-birth of the State of Israel in 1948.

The book is extremely disturbing one two counts. On one count that such an ethnic cleansing and racial segregation of the Jews could be allowed to occur in the modern day, (especially so soon after the Second World War & the Holocaust), and in another regard that such a forced expulsion could be so soon forgotten and overlooked by the International Community & it's media, which have both clearly chosen to turn a blind eye to this issue.

Any accurate assessment of the Arab-Israeli conflict is indeed incomplete without addressing this very troubling subject.

Whilst some readers will inevitably draw an initial correlation to the Palestinian refugee issue, it only becomes too apparent that there are some fundamental differences.

With appropriate references to the brutal Iraqi (1941), Egyptian (1945), and Libyan (1945) pogroms inspired by local Arab movements extremely sympathetic to the Nazis/Final Solution, together with the anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo and Aden of 1947, the writer correctly asks how these events could in any way '...be attributed to the State of Israel in 1948 ?'.

As the book unfolds one is also faced with the cold, callous indictment that this forcible expulsion of the Jews, effectively made the Arab worl Judenrein. The Jews,- whose families had inhabited these Arab lands for thousands of years, leaving with only the possessions that they could carry, being robbed of homes, businesses, and all their worldly possessions by their Arab `overlords'.

One reads the moving story of the forcible ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Arab nations, not because of war but due to unregulated racial hatred and gratuitously cruel Arab policies. The de-humanising policy of dhimmitude towards Jews and Christians, treated in so many ways as second class/inferior citizens in Islamic society, also receiving a commendable examination.

One is left with an understanding of the glaring dissimilarity to the Palestinian refugee issue, where the vast number of Palestinian refugees, (composed primarily of Arab migrant workers who had been living in the 'Palestine' area as little as two years prior to Israel's creation in 1948 & most of whom left their homes of their own accord) fled their homes leaving of their own accord, hoping to return when the Arab military had completed the genocide of the Jewish people from their midst in 'Palestine' too.

(Claim of Dispossession: Jewish Land Settlement and the Arabs, 1878-1948 by Aryeh Avneri is another excellent work on this issue).

It is clear from this excellent book that the ability of the Arab world to re-settle these Palestinian refugees, is indisputable when one considers their more than sufficient geographical areas (fully one tenth of the world's land mass), together with their vast economic wealth. An outlined ability only matched by an unwillingness which instead saw the Arab world purposely deciding to use these refugees as a political anti-Israeli weapon within the UN and through the media to serve their own purposes towards their agenda of eventually eradicating the Jewish state in it's entirety.

The book showing that over the years this policy has been discovered to be a more effective way of swaying world opinion, with the Arabs having now adopted humanitarian terminology in support of the `demands' of the Palestinians, for circumstances that they themselves largely created but for which they entirely blame the Israelis.

This is a remarkable study of how the Jewish presence in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, a presence that preceded the rise of Islam by over a thousand years, has virtually disappeared through forcible expulsion. An estimated number of only some 20,000 Jews now remaining in the North African area.

The story of a forgotten Jewish people ignored by the World and the media. Readers will be able to draw their own conclusions as to why this is so. Very highly recommended, indeed absolutely required reading on the Middle East.

How the Modern Arab World Became Judenrein: Implications.......2002-02-18

In ýJews and Arabsý (New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975), the author Albert Memmi, a Sephardic Jew, observed the following: ý ..The head of an Arab state recently made us a generous and novel offer. ýReturn,ý he told us, ýreturn to the land of your birth! Are you not Arabs like us- Arab Jews?ý. What lovely words! We draw a secret nostalgia from them: yes, indeed we were Arab Jews- in our habits, our culture, our music, our menus. I have written enough about it. But must one remain an Arab Jew if, in return, one has to tremble for oneýs life and the future of oneýs children and always be denied a normal existence? There are, it is true, the Arab Christians. What is not sufficiently known is the shamefully exorbitant price that they must pay for the right merely to survive.ý

ýThe Forgotten Millionsý is a compendium of nine thoughtfully interwoven essays which present a compelling sociopolitical discussion of the unheralded expulsion of ~ 850,000 Jews from Arab North Africa and the Middle East between 1941 and 1976. The presentation by Yaýakov Meron debunks a widely held misconception that this Jewish exodus resulted solely from the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. After documenting the brutal Iraqi (1941), Egyptian (1945), and Libyan (1945) pogroms inspired by local Arab movements sympathetic to the Nazis, as well as the anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo and Aden of 1947, the author rightfully asks how these events could ý..be attributed to the State [of Israel] in 1948?ý.

Core issues addressed effectively in Parts 2 and 3 (essays 5 through 9) include: the Jews unprovoked forced expulsion; their de facto population exchange with Arab Palestinians displaced primarily by the Arab invasion of Israel in 1948; and the stark contrast between the rapid, but difficult integration of ~650,000 Sephardic Jewish refugees from Arab lands into a resource poor Israel, relative to the Arab worlds ongoing refusal to permanently re-settle the original 540,000 Palestinian Arab refugees (and their descendants) from the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, despite more than sufficient geographical (fully one tenth of the worldýs land mass), and economic (i.e., Arabian peninsula, Iraqi, and Libyan oil wealth) resources. In sum, the essays in Parts 2 and 3 clearly obligate objective international policy makers and diplomats to re-address the validity of the current Palestinian Authority claim to a ýright of returný for Arab Palestinians to the pre-1967 borders of Israel.

The earlier essays in Part 1 introduce key thematic elements that support the presentations in Parts 2 and 3. Bat Yeýor highlights how the post-colonial resurgence of traditional Islamic oppression (i.e., ýdhimmitudeý) of Jews and Christians intensified following the creation of Israel, as the liberation of an indigenous dhimmi people (i.e., the Jews) within its historic homeland was viewed as a ýNaqbahý (ýCatastropheý) not only by Arab Palestinians, but by the Islamic Arab world at large. Walid Phares summarizes how the Arab world, already Judenrein, has become progressively Christianrein as well since the end of World War II.

Ultimately, it is this widespread, brutal religious intolerance of non-Muslims in the Arab world that must be addressed and ameliorated by the international community to achieve a long term peaceful settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. As a specific example, the international community should compel a ýmoderateý Arab state, Jordan, to repeal immediately an unconscionable existing law that actively sanctions the notion of Judenrein (i.e., Feb. 6, 1954, Section 3 [3] of the Jordanian Nationality Law, prohibiting an Jew from becoming a Jordanian citizen, which is still in effect). It is perhaps an ironic ray of hope that dehumanizing, repressive laws such as The Jordanian Nationality Law, are sharply contrasted by the nearby legal status of 1 million permanent Arab Muslim citizens currently living within the pre-1967 borders of Israel.

A new telling of an old story.......2000-06-18

Seeing the tittle and cover of the book, made me wonder: "The Forgotten Millions"- Which millions? Is it about millions in money value? Is it millions of people?

As I glanced at the index, and some of the articles, I found out it was about all the millions- It is the millions of property and money which the Arab Jews have lost as they had to leave their "mother countries" (which did not act in a very motherly manner to its Jewish people). The thousands of Arab Jews which had to leave to Israel/Palestine just because they were Jewish. This reminded me of other expulsions and ethnic cleansing several years earlier (1940's).

This is the story, of the Jewish refugees and their children living now in Israel- altogether millions.

One cannot be blind to see the similarity to the Palestinian case. This brings the editor, Malka Hillel Shulewitz, to conclude that peace talks between Israel and Arab countries should include the compensation of the Jewish refuge as well. I see this as the weaker part of the book, for it is too bluntly political.

However, the main importance of the book is to show the complexity of the Middle East situation. In recent years, a load of books and articles have been published by (what are called) "New Historians". These "New Historians" shatter the Zionist myth, and give us a different Narrative; the narrative of the Palestinians forced out of their land and oppressed by Jewish society in Israel.

I do not wish to argue with this narrative, for I am sure a war causes much sorrow to both sides and mostly to the ones that lost. This Forgotten Millions tells us one of the stories of the Arab-Jewish conflict, from a different angle- the forced exodus of Jews.

This does not under estimate the loss and sorrow of Arabs; it adds color to the "Black and White" story, which dominates the public discourse. Indeed, these millions of Jews have been forgotten.

Their hard time and absorption in the new land was not easy at all, and yet, they were able to re-establish their lives. But again, this might be a good platform for dispute between "Narratives"...

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Title: The Forgotten Millions: The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands.(Review) (book review)
Author: Edward Alexander
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Date: September 1, 2000
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Volume: 46 Issue: 6 Page: 37

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