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Spanning more than a decade 'Not my People" encompasses the stories of a spectrum of characters and their lives in the late decades of the last century. Personal stories and the impact of terrorism (and defense against it) are, interwoven with a taste of rabbinical mysticism all while keeping the reader on knife-edge. This book is a rich history of Jewish life in New York City, Jerusalem, and beyond.
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Chaim Klein-a fearless Israeli Special Forces officer-has his hands full. After Klein unexpectedly finds the long-lost Ark of the Covenant, he must then search the globe for the Ten Commandments tablets. Klein must also confront and stop a consortium of Islamic states and terrorist organizations who are planning a simultaneous attack that would obliterate dozens of Western cities and Israel. Along the way, he comes across the mystical and awe-inspiring...
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Does torture "work?" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been angrily debated in the halls of power and the court of public opinion. In Anatomy of Torture, Ron E. Hassner mines the archives of the Spanish Inquisition to propose an answer that will frustrate and infuriate both sides of the divide.
The Inquisition's scribes recorded every torment, every scream,...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la guerre de Gaza de 2006 à 2014 en moins d'une heure !
Gaza, qui forme une bande de seulement 360 km², est convoitée depuis des milliers d'années. Et pour cause : ce petit territoire est considéré comme le berceau des trois religions monothéistes et regroupe la majorité des lieux saints.
Lorsqu'au XIXe siècle le mouvement sioniste prne un retour de la communauté juive dans la Palestine de...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la guerra de Gaza de 2006 a 2014, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Observar el contexto en el que se desencadena la guerra de Gaza de 2006 a 2014, años después de haberse producido el surgimiento del sionismo, el retorno de los judíos a la Tierra Prometida, la proclamación del Estado de Israel y...
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On July 22, 1946 six members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground group headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, entered the basement of Jerusalem's King David Hotel and planted seven milk churns filled with explosives underneath the wing housing the headquarters of the British Mandatory Government of Palestine. The ensuing explosion killed ninety-one Britons, Arabs, and Jews, in roughly equal numbers, at the time the greatest death toll...
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On an August night in 1994 French counterespionage officers seized the world's most wanted terrorist from a villa in the Sudan. After more than two decades on the run, Carlos "the Jackal" had finally been caged. For years he had murdered and bombed his way to notoriety, evading capture thanks to powerful backers and the blunders of Western secret services. Jackal is the definitive biography of this self-proclaimed "professional revolutionary," ladies...
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