Manfred Gerstenfeld
The abuse of holocaust Memory: distorsions and responses
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Anti-Defamation League

Written with exemplary tenacity and courage, this volume's urgency is proven by its resolve to unmask and denounce the nefarious ugliness of Holocaust abuse and denial. The author, chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, offers a much needed study of the myriad of ways in which the memory of the genocide of the Jews during World War II is being manipulated and distorted in modern discourse. This volume demonstrates that words do matter, and especially language and symbolism surrounding the Holocaust, today's embodiment of supreme evil. Also included are case studies that analyze Holocaust distortion in several European countries and the Muslim world.

Giuseppe Giannotti
Israele, verità e pregiudizi. I media italiani e la seconda Intifada.
Disinformazione e mistificazioni
Editore De Ferrari

Giornalista del Secolo XIX e attento osservatore della questione mediorientale, l’autore analizza in questo saggio come i giornali e la televisione hanno trasmesso le notizie e gli avvenimenti legati al conflitto israelo-palestinese negli ultimi sette anni, a partire dallo scoppio della seconda Intifada fino agli inizi del 2008. Emerge un’informazione poco obiettiva, spesso distorta e comunque pregiudizialmente ostile ad Israele. Il lavoro accurato e meticoloso di Giannotti è una base di partenza insostituibile per ogni persona che aspiri a conoscere i fatti come realmente accadono senza fermarsi alle apparenze e a visioni della realtà stereotipata e pregiudizievole.

Martin Gilbert
Israel: a history
Barnes & Nobles

Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of the world stage for most of this century. For two millennia the Jews, dispersed all over the world, prayed for a return to Zion. Until the nineteenth century, that dream seemed a fantasy, but then a secular Zionist movement was born and soon the initial trickle of Jewish immigrants to Palestine turned into a flood as Jews fled persecution in Europe.From these beginnings, Martin Gilbert traces the events and personalities that would lead to the sudden, dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948. From that point on, Israel's history has been dominated by conflict: Suez, the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the Lebanon and the Intifada. Using contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, drawing on his own intimate knowledge of the country and its people, Martin Gilbert weaves together a seamless, page-turning history of a powerful and proud nation,with a new chapter to cover the last ten years, bringing the story right up to date: the continuing conflicts, and the ever-present avenues of hope.

Joe Golan
La Terra promessa
La nascita dello Stato di Israele nel racconto di un protagonista
Scalise D. (curatore)
Einaudi

Responsabile dell'Ufficio Arabo del Congresso Ebraico Mondiale, Golan ha vissuto in prima persona alcuni dei momenti più importanti della storia del secolo. Nato in Egitto da una famiglia di ebrei ucraini e poi cresciuto a stretto contatto con gli arabi, convinto che non vi siano alternative al dialogo, l’autore è un sostenitore della diplomazia della pace, e nel libro racconta la Palestina pre-israeliana, divisa tra la passione dei pionieri e i rischi di un massacro; l'esodo di trecentomila ebrei marocchini in Israele, la rappacificazione tra ebrei e cristiani, e via via tutte le drammatiche tappe che portarono alla costituzione dello Stato d'Israele.

Dore Gold
The fight for Jerusalem
Regnery Publishing

Radical Islam has long desired to seize Jerusalem and cut it off to Christian and Jewish believers. In his revealing book, "The Fight for Jerusalem", bestselling author and former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold explains why the battle for Jerusalem is intensifying today. Gold shows why only Israel can preserve its holy places for Christians, Jews, and even Muslims, and why uncovering Jerusalem's past - and the truth of biblical history - can be the key to saving its future.
Comprehensive and cogent, this book may be a helpful resource to anyone interested in the historical and theological antecedents to today's political quagmire.