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Israeli Identity: Between Orient and Occident is an important book on contemporary Israeli identities and Israeli discourses on the East and the West. The authors examine various aspects of Israeli social, political, and cultural life, challenging a common belief that Israel is a Western state that only geographically is located in the Middle East. The contributors explore various manifestations of Israeli identities in a quest to answer an old, but lingering question: how Middle Eastern are Israel and the Israelis?

From their perspective, the only thing Arab leaders possibly fear more than the United States meddling is the United States disengaging, so the real answer might be, "Fix this mess." What the region needs and wants from the United States is sophisticated diplomacy. Adapted from the source document.

This multi-volume set of reissued classics brings together a collection of titles that touch on many key aspects of the history of the Middle East. From the early explorers of Arabia to the 1979 revolution in Iran, via histories of places as varied as the UAE and Zanzibar, the analysis of Nazi policies towards the Arab East, and a close reading of the territorial foundations of the Gulf states, the books collected here form a wide-ranging and eclectic study of the history of the region.