Title

Beyond the promised land : Jews and Arabs on the hard road to a new Israel

Description

Glenn Frankel's work on the status of government, politics, the economy, and relations between jews and arabs in the modern state of Israel.

Identifier

502979

671796496

Creator

Frankel, Glenn

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1994

Program air date: December 25, 1994.

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front flysheet: Dec 16 11 a.m. How much total money has US given Israel and Egypt. Ashkenazi. Sephardim-David Levy. Gevalt syndrome. Natan Sharansky. Underlinings/notes: Underlinings: Zionist state dying; birth of post-Zionist Israel. Prime Ministers Shamir/Rabin, Natan Sharansky, Arye Deri, general Amram Mitzna, Dan Meridor, Haim Goren, Jad Isaac. Book focuses on two questions: 1. What drove a person to do what he/she did; and 2. how did these actions fit into larger picture of a country caught in change? Description of Yitzhak Shamir, his habits, and his background. Gaza. Islamic Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood. Difficulties of Russian/Soviet Jews fitting into Israeli society and Israeli society's difficulties with them. 1989-1992 410,055 Soviet Jews emigrated; 66,165 other Jews from Eastern Europe and Ethiopia. Jewish Agency funded chiefly from overseas donors--$400 million each year. Role of American Jews in Israel. Relationship between Shamir's government/American Jews. Americanization of Israel. Notes: 87-93; "Reasons for change," "Hebron Feb. 1994," "Frankel to Israel 1970," "1986 Post," "46 year history," "not objective," "Jewish Agency," "button factory," "58% for ending rule in territories," "Who is Jew amendment," "Gevalt," Histadrut," "4% of workforce," "Inflation," "290 kibbutzim," Japanese cars," "1/8 of Israeli economy from America," "IDF budget," "Bush, one lonely guy," "Intifada," "loan guaranties not needed," "Labor and Likud parties in trouble."

Subject

"Arab-Israeli conflict--1973-1993"

"Intifada, 1987-1993"

"National characteristics, Israeli"

"Israel--Politics and government"

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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