The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East

David Hirst

The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Thunder's Mouth Press
Country
United States
Published
26 August 2003
Pages
400
ISBN
9781560254836

The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East

David Hirst

More than a decade before Israel’s New Historians revolutionized the study of Israeli history, English journalist David Hirst wrote The Gun and the Olive Branch, a classic, myth-breaking general history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hirst, former Middle East correspondent of the Guardian, traces the origins of the terrible conflict back to the 1880s to show how Arab violence, although often cruel and fanatical, is a response to the challenge of repeated aggression. The Gun and the Olive Branch is an absorbing, potentially controversial, history of the Middle Eastern conflict that is indispensable to anyone with an interest in world politics and by partisans of both sides. This classic and controversial account of the origins of the Middle East conflict returns to print updated with a lengthy introduction that reflects on the course of recent Middle Eastern history,especially the abortive Israeli-Palestinian peace process and 9/11.

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