Their Promised Land

by Marcia Kunstel

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517572311
• ISBN13: 9780517572313
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating view of history

This book's approach of tracing the history of Israel through the experiences of families in one small area is very successful. The authors compare the local experience to the events of the country at large as well as telling individual stories. I believe this book is a balanced source of information, and like the other reviewer, it opened my eyes to the root causes of conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis. The Israelis' hands are far from clean, but Arab leaders using the Palestinian cause to further their own ends share responsiblity for the dismal situation that exists today. This book was published in 1990, so it is not current, but history is history and that is what this book does best.

Must read if trying to understand the middle east conflict

This was the best book of a group of books I chose to ready on the history of the middle east. It is hard to put down once you start, and if you are an American reading it, your stomach will turn as you begin to understand much better why our foreign policy is reviled by Arabs in the middle east and Palestinians in particular. I am just a "soccer mom" with no political party ties, but after 9/11 I felt that the middle east conflict was one of several threats to my country and this book helped me understand why there is so much justifiable hatred toward historical American foreign policy. The families written about in "Their Promised Land" are real, just like your neighbors, and you relate to what happens to them as if it had happened to your own family members. If you only have the time to read one book on the middle east, read this.