William G Baker Israel Narrative

Annotation

William G Baker, a Near East expert, university professor, retired military intelligence officer, native Arabic and Hebrew linguist, and author, answers the following questions in this book: What was the Diaspora and why were Jews persecuted? What is Zionism and by what authority was modern Israel established? How was modern Israeli culture reconstituted and the Hebrew language revived? What were the Arab-Israeli wars? Who is Israel's new existential threat? Who were the Hebrews, Judahites, and Israelites? When did they rule the land of Israel, who ended their rule and renamed it Palestine?The book examines the gathering of millions of Jews into a cohesive, new, contemporary Jewish-Israeli society and its development of a strong military, which has made Israel a regional superpower. It also explores the Palestinian narrative and objection to Israel's creation. This is the first single text that covers the historical span of the Hebrew-Israelite-Judahite-Jewish-Israeli narrative from its ethnogenesis in antiquity to its rebirth in modernity.