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The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict [4 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History

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It is obvious thru the topics omitted that this encyclopedia is extremely biased and prejudiced; it is indeed scandalous. To give a few examples:

- Massacres like those of Deir Yassin have an entry, but massacres by terrorists against Israeli and Jewish children like those of Kiryat Shmona, Ma'alot, in the seventies, do not get an entry

- Massacres against Jews from Arab countries are totally omitted. For example, the two Cairo massacres that took places in the Jewish quarter in Cairo in 1948, and where several dozen Jews were killed, and nearly a hundred were injured, are not mentioned. Nor is a third massacre where six Jews were killed in downtown Cairo is mentioned.

- The rape of Jewish women trying to escape Syria thru Lebanon in the seventies goes unmentioned.

- Also unmentioned is the mass arrest of Egyptian Jewish males between the ages of 17 and 60 from 1967 thru 1970. Their incarceration and torture in the detention camps of Abu Za'abal and Tura for up to three years was an act of revenge for Egypt's defeat in the war against the Jews of Egypt. Many of these Jews were paraded as Israeli POW's in Ramses Square where they were abused by mobs.

- The incarceration of Egyptian Jews in 1956, as well as their mass deportation out of the country, is never mentioned

- Authors like Mahmoud Darweesh have an entry in the encyclopedia, but Israeli authors like Shmuel Yossef Agnon do not have an entry. Also absent from the entries is Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the man responsible for the revival of the Hebrew Language. This is the only case in history where a language long unused was revived.

- Also unmentioned are Jewish authors from Arab countries like Albert Memi (author of Jews and Arabs).

A four-volume set, The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History is an in-depth scrutiny of one of the most vicious, implacable, and long-running territorial disputes in the history of the world. In the past sixty years, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the increased scarcity of oil have dramatically amplified the global consequences of this conflict. The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides an impartial wealth of information on this hot topic in over 750 alphabetically organized entries covering key people, places, events, and social topics. Each entry is enhanced with cross references and recommendations for further reading. Maps and photographs add a visual aid to comprehending this complicated issue. The final "documents" volume of The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict is a collection of more than 150 primary sources. The result is an accessible, exhaustive and invaluable reference to a potentially critical modern issue, and carries the absolute highest recommendation for public and college libraries as well as international reference collections.