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# Award-winning historical analysis Perfect binding for durability 640 pages of deep insight Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

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> 📘 Unlock the untold story behind a century of conflict and coexistence.

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## Key Features

- • **On-the-Ground Realities:** Captures everyday life in key cities, offering a humanized view beyond headlines and politics.
- • **Unmatched Depth & Nuance:** Draws on declassified docs, oral histories, and decades of expert reporting for a balanced perspective.
- • **Award-Winning Credibility:** Celebrated by The Economist, Sunday Times, Financial Times, and Guardian as a landmark study.
- • **Century-Spanning Masterpiece:** Explore 100 years of one of the most pivotal conflicts shaping modern geopolitics.
- • **Essential for Thought Leaders:** A must-read for professionals seeking to understand the roots and future of Middle East dynamics.

## Overview

Enemies and Neighbours is a comprehensive 640-page historical analysis by veteran journalist Ian Black, tracing the complex Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine and Israel from 1917 to 2017. Perfectly bound and critically acclaimed, this book combines declassified documents, eyewitness accounts, and expert reporting to provide a nuanced, balanced perspective on a century of political upheaval, wars, peace efforts, and everyday life in the region. Recognized as a landmark study by major publications, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand one of the most polarizing conflicts of the modern era.

## Description

ECONOMIST , SUNDAY TIMES , FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The Times A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish 'national home' in Palestine, veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major new history of one of the most polarising conflicts of the modern age. Drawing on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral testimonies and his own decades of reporting - Enemies and Neighbours brings much-needed perspective and balance to the long and unresolved struggle between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land. Beginning in the final years of Ottoman ruleand the British Mandate period, when Zionist immigration transformed Palestine in the face of mounting Arab opposition, the book re-examines the origins of what was a doomed relationship from the start. It sheds fresh light on critical events such as the Arab rebellion of the 1930s; Israel's independence and the Palestinian catastrophe ( Nakba in Arabic) of 1948; the watershed of the 1967 war; two Intifadas ; the Oslo Accords and Israel's shift to the right. It traces how - after five decades of occupation, ever-expanding Jewish settlements and the construction of the West Bank 'separation wall' - hopes for a two-state solution have all but disappeared, and explores what the future might hold. Yet Black also goes beyond the most newsworthy events - wars, violence and peace initiatives - to capture thereality of everyday life on the ground in Jerusalem and Hebron, Tel Aviv,Ramallah, Haifa and Gaza, for both sides of an unequal struggle. Lucid, timelyand gripping, Enemies and Neighbours illuminates a bitter conflict that shows no sign of ending - which is why it is so essential that we understand it.

Review: Informative book but a depressing read - An excellent summary of events around the establishment of Israel and its subsequent history. The book is written clearly and concisely with empathy for all sides in this intractable situation. The book is very good but ultimately leaves me profoundly despairing of any hope of resolution. There appears to be nothing too evil/duplicitous/cruel/corrupt/incompetent/racist that either side has been prepared to do. Given past events and the intractability of religious convictions there is simply no hope. Reading this makes you realise how awful humans can be to each other and makes me ashamed to be a human being.
Review: excellent background - excellent book explains clearly how the situation came about and who helped it get there . well written and easy to read highly informative

## Features

- Pages Count - 640. Binding type - Perfect.

## Technical Specifications

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| Best Sellers Rank | 16,250 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 642 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Informative book but a depressing read
*by N***B on 27 September 2026*

An excellent summary of events around the establishment of Israel and its subsequent history. The book is written clearly and concisely with empathy for all sides in this intractable situation. The book is very good but ultimately leaves me profoundly despairing of any hope of resolution. There appears to be nothing too evil/duplicitous/cruel/corrupt/incompetent/racist that either side has been prepared to do. Given past events and the intractability of religious convictions there is simply no hope. Reading this makes you realise how awful humans can be to each other and makes me ashamed to be a human being.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ excellent background
*by T***L on 3 July 2025*

excellent book explains clearly how the situation came about and who helped it get there . well written and easy to read highly informative

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A very detailed and expansive review of the Palestine/Israel issue.
*by T***A on 21 July 2020*

I have just finished reading this book and here are some of my thoughts at this time. The book is expansive in historical scope, covering the 100 year period from 1917 to 2017. As such it gives you an excellent overview of how and where it all began and why we might be where we are today. It is very detailed, full of names and places, so I found it best not to try to focus deeply on every detail, instead to push on and try to gain an overall picture. I have found it very worthwhile reading this book and much of what is described I do recall hearing of via the news over the many decades that have passed ( I was 10 at the time of the '67 war). To re-visit these events by reading about them in detail is a sobering and thought-provoking experience and often upsetting as I read about the lives lost on both sides. But I feel it has been essential, especially at this time as we face the Trump plan and what might develop from it. When I had finished reading it, I put the book down realising I would not feel the same way again towards the state of Israel. It has been a wake-up call of sorts for me. I have always felt an affection for the Hebrew language and Judaism and have been learning to speak Hebrew for many years. I have also enjoyed reading the books of Martin Buber who wrote, amongst other things, a great deal about zionism and the Jewish connection to Israel. He was however an advocate of a much 'softer' zionism regarding Jews moving to live in Israel alongside the Arabs there, constantly raising the need for co-operation with the Arabs in those earlier pre-Israel days and raising concerns about the numbers of Jews moving there. Could this ever have worked, even had the will been there amongst earlier Jewish settlers? I don't know, and perhaps now I reflect that any settlement there, however cautious, might have been wrong. As my reading of the book progressed, I came to feel that once the foothold was there and the bullish manner of the settlement project established the Arabs were destined to lose their land. I found this depressing, especially regarding the illegal ongoing west bank settlements that have never abated up to this day. It seems to me that the best that there could have been for the Arabs was the UN partition plan of 1947. I am not widely read on this subject and so am not in a robust position to comment upon whether or not the book is overly biased toward favouring the Palestinian cause; my sense at this time is that it is slightly so, though I feel it is difficult not to be when the whole story is faced. Before reading this book I had read Martin Buber's book 'A land of two peoples' and Bernard Lewis's book 'Semites and anti-semites'. I read these to under-pin a little my reading of Ian Black's book, as I wanted to understand more of Buber's approach and also anti-semitism (which I find abhorrent and have never understood). At the end of the day, after reading Ian Black's book, I have found myself unable to reconcile the state of Israel as it exists today with the understandable desire for a safe Jewish homeland.

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