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Understanding the Holy Land: Answering questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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This book should be read by anyone of any age who really wants to understand the full story of the conflict in the Middle East. Mr. Frank offers an empathic and stunninly clear explanation of the cultural and political background and beliefs of all parties to the conflict. He includes a tremendous amount of information, making this complicated subject accessible and shedding light on a situation most Americans know little about. I highly recommend this book.

After reading this book, I feel that I finally have better understanding of what's going on -- and more importantly, why --in the Holy Land area.

The book is written for a middle-school audience, and therefore the language is much easier to understand than that in other books I've tried to read on the subject. Since the subject matter is complicated, and the average reader would need to focus his/her attention on really comprehending the issue, having the author's easy-to-understand language to guide through the chapters is really, really helpful.

As of summer 2005, the book is as up-to-date as can be. I hope that someone -- if not this author -- will able to follow the issue and keep informing the public the way this book has.

This conflict has been ongoing for a long time. Books that discuss the problems can be very complex. This book by Mitch Frank does an excellent job of sticking to a brief analysis of the major problems in prose that is easy to understand.

English is not my primary language but this book was easy enough to finish in two days. I did not know much about Israel-Palestina conflict and was looking for a good book with basic information. This book taught me how the three religions-- Judaism, Muslim and Chiristianity-- are related, and why different peoples see the Holy Land as their homes.

This book is for not only children but perfect for adult readers whose primary language is not English. Highly recommended.

First of all let me say that I didn't read the entire book.

However, from what i've read i found a lot of historical innacuracies, for examle, it states that the Palestinians moved in in the 7th century, which is not true since the Arabs invaded the land that already had a people living in it. I am not saying the Palestinians dont have arabic blood, but they are not 100% arabs either.

It also says that the Palestinians and arabs rejected the 1947 UN resolution, however it fails to mention the fact that neither the Palestinians or arabs were included in the UN discussion.

It states that the Arab armies invaded, but it fails to mention that there were 300,000 Palestinian refugees forced out of their homes prior to the invasion.

The book repeats some historical propoganda that is not accurate, a well balanced book should state what both sides are saying, what neutral sides are saying and what's hitorically proven.

It does appear to try to be balanced at times, but fails miserably, an issue like the Palestinian-Israeli conflict should be researched more before a book is written