The Middle East conflict.
By: Tom and Sara Pendergast ; project editor, Ralph Zerbonia.
Contributors: Pendergast, Sara.; Zerbonia, Ralph.
Series: Middle East conflict reference library
Publisher: UXL
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.; Arab-Israeli conflict -- Juvenile literature.; Middle East -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Sources; Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Introduction: a fire buring in the Middle East; title: Ch. 2.; title: The ancient Middle East: home to major world religions; title: Ch. 3. Becoming nations: from the Ottoman Empire to modern nations; title: Ch. 4. Forming a Jewish nation: the road to Israel up to 1947; title: Ch. 5. Fighting in the Holy Land: the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1947 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973; title: Ch. 6 The longest battle: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1973-92; title: Ch. 7. Pawns in a strategic game; title: Ch. 8 Competing visions of the Arab world: pan-arabism, pan-islamicism, and Islamic fundamentalism; title: Ch. 9 Oil and water: natural resources and politics in the Middle East; title: Ch. 10. The tool of terror; title: Ch. 11. The civil war in Lebanon; title: Ch. 12. The Iran-Iraq War; title: Ch. 13. Confronting Saddam: the United States at war in the Gulf; title: Ch. 14. Flashpoints; title: Ch. 15. The future of the Middle East.