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.