Inhumane, Intolerant, Unclean
Ian Gilmour, 31 October 1996
A History of Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
by Karen Armstrong.
HarperCollins, 474 pp., £20, July 1996,0 00 255522 0 Show More
by Karen Armstrong.
HarperCollins, 474 pp., £20, July 1996,
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years
by Israel Shahak.
Pluto, 118 pp., £11.99, April 1994,9780745308180 Show More
by Israel Shahak.
Pluto, 118 pp., £11.99, April 1994,
City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to the Present
edited by Nitza Rosovsky.
Harvard, 562 pp., £25.50, April 1996,0 674 13190 8 Show More
edited by Nitza Rosovsky.
Harvard, 562 pp., £25.50, April 1996,
Jerusalem in the 20th Century
by Martin Gilbert.
Chatto, 400 pp., £20, May 1996,0 7011 3070 9 Show More
by Martin Gilbert.
Chatto, 400 pp., £20, May 1996,
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
by Norman Finkelstein.
Verso, 230 pp., £39.95, December 1995,1 85984 940 7 Show More
by Norman Finkelstein.
Verso, 230 pp., £39.95, December 1995,
To Rule Jerusalem
by Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht.
Cambridge, 554 pp., £29.95, June 1996,0 521 44046 7 Show More
by Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht.
Cambridge, 554 pp., £29.95, June 1996,
“... including terrorist atrocities. Of course, everybody should be tough on terrorism, but to adapt Tony Blair, they should also be tough on the causes of terrorism, and there is little chance of that being achieved. For the main causes of terrorism stem from Israel and Washington. Israel nourishes terrorism by its ruthless oppression of Arabs in Palestine ... ”