Dictionary of the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict: Culture, History and Politics

Just as the problems of the Middle East preoccupy the world's leaders, so the compilation of guides to it seems to preoccupy the publishers of reference books; this is the third I have reviewed in about a year. Unlike the two earlier ones, it is focused more narrowly on the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict rather than the wider affairs of the region. It is derived from a French work of 2002 by Claude Faure (whose name does not appear on the front of the title‐page) and is described as “expanded, both in number of entries, and in scope … and entirely rewritten...