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'Not by Might, Nor by Power': The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism

Born in 1893, Moshe Menuhin was part of the inaugural class to attend the first Zionist high school in Palestine, the Herzliya gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He had grown up in a Hasidic home, but eventually rejected orthodoxy while remaining dedicated to Judaism. As a witness to the evolution of Israel, Menuhin grew disaffected with what he saw as a betrayal of the Jews' spiritual principles. This memoir, written in 1965, is considered the first revisionist history of Zionism. A groundbreaking document, it discusses the treatment of the Palestinians, the effects of the Holocaust, the exploitation of the Mizrahi Jewish immigrants, and the use of propaganda to win over public opinion in America and among American Jews. In a postscript added after the Six-Day War, Menuhin also addresses the question of occupation. This new edition is updated with an introduction by Israeli philosopher Adi Ophir, putting Menuhin's work into a contemporary historical context. Menuhin's polemic remains both a thought-provoking reassessment of Zionist history and a fascinating look at one observer's experience of this embattled corner of the world over the course of several tumultuous decades. Contains mature themes.

Moshe Menuhin (Author), Barry Abrams (Narrator)

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The War of Return

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no 'right of return.' In 1948, seven hundred thousand Palestinians were forced out of their homes by the first Arab-Israeli War. More than seventy years later, most of their houses are long gone, but millions of their descendants are still registered as refugees, with many living in refugee camps. This group?unlike countless others that were displaced in the aftermath of World War II and other conflicts?has remained unsettled, demanding to settle in the state of Israel. Their belief in a 'right of return' is one of the largest obstacles to successful diplomacy and lasting peace in the region. In The War of Return, Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf?both liberal Israelis supportive of a two-state solution?reveal the origins of the idea of a right of return, and explain how UNRWA - the very agency charged with finding a solution for the refugees - gave in to Palestinian, Arab and international political pressure to create a permanent “refugee” problem. They argue that this Palestinian demand for a “right of return” has no legal or moral basis and make an impassioned plea for the US, the UN, and the EU to recognize this fact, for the good of Israelis and Palestinians alike. A runaway bestseller in Israel, the first English translation of The War of Return is certain to spark lively debate throughout America and abroad.

Adi Schwartz, Einat Wilf (Author), Einat Wilf (Narrator)

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God Is Not Enough, Messiah Needed: Messiah Ascends to Heaven

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Imagine you lived among our forefathers in ancient civilizations. Imagine, also, that your assignment was to record at the time--Mesopotamian, Akkadian, Egyptian and Mayan--civilizations, what you had observed, for future generations. We, the readers of today are the future generations. What a daunting job that would be for you the writer. Today, will your writings make sense to those of our generations who come after you? That was the dilemma of authors from ancient times. The aliens were wowing them with technologies they were not familiar with and could not understand. However, the prophets recorded the images they saw using symbolisms and iconographies they were familiar with. They sometimes described a scene of humanoid looking extraterrestrials coming down from the sky as angels coming down from heaven. Often, humanoids coming out of the aircraft were described as coming out of the belly or mouth of a dragon. When the 'dragon' takes off, it was described as a fire eating or fire spitting creature. We have often interpreted these recordings without applying logic and science. Most often we make mundane assumptions like: Jonah was swallowed by a fish. Take a look at submarines of various designs. What do they look like? What is the designs look-alike? Unless, one has lost all senses of logic and fact in exchange for the mundane, you cannot believe or assume it was a whale. Science makes it abundantly factual that to be housed inside a whale will cut off a man's access to oxygen and therefore death. Some will only accept interpretations that are confirmed by their version of the Holy Books. They considered any use of reason in religious matters to be misleading and impermissible. Some believed man is too mortal to understand the ways of the aliens. In God Is Not Enough, a groundbreaking and thought-provoking book, the author attempts to deconstruct the confusion.

Sam Oputa (Author), Digital Voice Mike G (Narrator)

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Silk Road Chronicles: Trade, Culture & History

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Uncover the Rich Tapestry of the Silk Road's Past and Present BOOK 1 - SILK ROADS OF ANTIQUITY: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Ancient World Step back in time to explore the origins and early routes of the Silk Road. Discover how ancient civilizations engaged in the exchange of goods, ideas, and cultures that shaped the world we know today. Unearth the secrets of the fabled Silk Road caravans, the timeless allure of silk, and the crossroads where art, religion, and ideas converged. BOOK 2 - SILK ROAD EMPIRES: The Medieval Era of Silk and Spice Travel through the medieval era of the Silk Road, a time when empires rose and fell, and the scent of spices filled the air. Journey alongside merchants and explorers as they navigate the treacherous routes, uncovering the riches of distant lands. Immerse yourself in the stories of thriving Central Asian trading capitals and the crossroads of faith where religions mingled and transformed. BOOK 3 - SILK ROAD REVIVAL: From Marco Polo to the Age of Exploration Experience the Renaissance of the Silk Road as adventurers like Marco Polo embark on epic journeys. Discover the tales of exploration, diplomacy, and innovation that reshaped the world. From Venice to Xi'an, follow in the footsteps of those who bridged East and West, creating a legacy that still resonates today. BOOK 4 - MODERN SILK ROAD: Globalization and the 21st Century Belt and Road Initiative Fast forward to the 21st century and witness the revival of the Silk Road on a global scale. Delve into the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, where nations are connected by vast infrastructure projects and economic cooperation. Grab this exclusive bundle today and embark on an adventure that will forever change the way you see the world. Don't miss out on this opportunity to own a piece of history – order now!

A.J.Kingston (Author), Digital Voice Madison G (Narrator)

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The Enemies of the Ancient Israelites: The History of the Canaanites, Philistines, Babylonians, and

Individuals who decide to take up learning about the Old Testament of the Bible are immediately faced with the difficult proposition of identifying the various peoples that the Hebrews met and sometimes came into conflict with when they entered the territory that eventually became Israel. The Moabites and Edomites were just two of the many Canaanite groups that the Hebrews dealt with, often violently, but there were dozens of other Canaanite groups, which were all for the most part identified through the names of their respective cities. In fact, before the Hebrews established a kingdom and before the Phoenicians colonized much of the Mediterranean, the Canaanites were the most important group in the Levant for much of the Bronze Age and into the early Iron Age. Although the Canaanites never created a unified nation-state or kingdom, their importance in the ancient Near East cannot be understated. It was at least partially because of that fact that the Canaanites were unable to resist their larger and more powerful neighbors that the average person today knows so little about their history, but modern studies have revealed that they developed a unique religion that influenced non-Canaanite peoples and continued to be practiced in some form centuries after the Canaanites ceased to be an identifiable people. Furthermore, during the height of the Bronze Age the Canaanites provided important resources to the Egyptian and Hittite Empires and played a key role in the geopolitical game of chess between those two kingdoms. It also goes without saying that the Canaanites were also a factor in the establishment of the Kingdom of Israel, as the battles they lost to the Hebrews later became the foundation of the Jewish kingdom.

Charles River Editors (Author), Victoria Woodson (Narrator)

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Live. Fight. Survive.: An ex-British soldier’s account of courage, resistance and defiance fighting

Brought to you by Penguin. Shaun Pinner was a retired and decorated British soldier, living a peaceful and happy life in Mariupol with his Ukrainian family. What follows is the true story of his six months spent imprisoned in Russian-occupied Ukraine. After the horrors of frontline fighting, Shaun had to survive his capture by the Russian soldiers, and his removal to a Black Site - an off-the-grid prison untethered to human rights conventions - where he was subjected to a campaign of torture by Putin's secret police. It saw him shocked with electricity, stabbed, beaten, and almost starved to death, all while trying to maintain his morale with the other POWs. Shaun tells a story that is both an unputdownable record of the fierceness of the fighting and a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit. ©2023 Shaun Pinner (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Shaun Pinner (Author), Shaun Pinner (Narrator)

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Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to

The remarkable story of how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar—and diplomacy—to thwart Iran's development of nuclear weapons and, in the process, reshaped the Middle East. Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States. Even as it takes lethal action Israel has managed to alter the politics of the Middle East, culminating in the Abraham Accords of 2020. Arab states, such as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, normalized relations with Israel while giving a faint nod to the Palestinian issue, and the holy grail of normalization with Saudi Arabia may be achieved in a way which will inject at least some new energy into improving Israeli-Palestinian relations. Now, they share Israel's concern with Iran—even as they negotiate with Tehran—remaining silent while Israel undermines Iran's nuclear program. Bob and Evyatar reveal how Israel has used documents stolen from Tehran in a daring, secret Mossad raid to show the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency how Iran has repeatedly violated the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement and lied about its active nuclear weapons program. Drawing from interviews with top confidential Israeli and US sources, including from the Mossad and the CIA, the authors tell the inside story of the tumultuous, and often bloody, history of how Israel has managed to outmaneuver Iran—so far.

Ilan Evyatar, Yonah Jeremy Bob (Author), Jonathan Davis (Narrator)

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Anatolia and the Bronze Age: The History of the Earliest Kingdoms and Cities that Dominated the Regi

While the Bronze Age is recognized as one of history’s most important phases, it’s been hard for historians to precisely date. The idea of the Bronze Age comes from a three-age system developed in the 19th century through which archaeologists and historians believe cultures evolve. These three ages are the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, and the concept of the system stems from the simultaneous development of museums in Europe during that time. In the Royal Museum of Nordic Antiquities in Denmark, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, the director of the museum, began classifying objects of stone, bronze, or iron to better categorize and exhibit them. Each archaeological artifact was thus sorted according to their materials and further organized by shape and style. Through such methodology, working alongside archaeological reports, he was able to show how certain objects changed over time. During the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500-1200 BCE, the Near East was a time and place where great kingdoms and empires vied for land and influence, playing high stakes diplomatic games, trading, and occasionally going to war with each other in the process. The Egyptians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, and several smaller Canaanite kingdoms were all part of this system, which was one of the first true “global” systems in world history and also one of the most materially prosperous eras in antiquity. The major kingdoms are well-known to most people, but among them were powerful neighbors, many of whom have been mostly overlooked. The transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age during the late 13th and early 12th centuries BCE arguably changed the structure and course of world history more fundamentally than any period before or since, and at the center of this period of turmoil was a group of people known today as the Sea Peoples, the English translation of the name given to them by the Egyptians.

Charles River Editors (Author), Victoria Woodson (Narrator)

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Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land

Holy Wars describes three thousand years of war in the Holy Land with the unique approach of focusing on pivotal battles or campaigns, beginning with the Israelites' capture of Jericho and ending with Israel's last full-fledged assault against Lebanon. Its chapters stop along the way to examine key battles fought by the Philistines, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, and Mamluks-the latter clash, at Ayn Jalut, comprising the first time the Mongols suffered a decisive defeat. The modern era saw the rise of the Ottomans and an incursion by Napoleon, who only found bloody stalemate outside the walls of Akko. The Holy Land became a battlefield again in World War I when the British fought the Turks. The nation of Israel was forged in conflict during its 1948 War of Independence, and subsequently found itself in desperate combat, often against great odds, in 1956 and 1967, and again in 1973, when it was surprised by a massive two-pronged assault. By focusing on the climax of each conflict, while carefully setting each stage, Holy Wars examines an extraordinary breadth of military history-spanning in one volume the evolution of warfare over the centuries, as well as the enduring status of the Holy Land as a battleground.

Gary L. Rashba (Author), Jim Denison (Narrator)

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[Russian] - История Израиля: От истоков сионистского движения до интифады начала XXI века

Эта книга, написанная одним из наиболее значимых израильских исследователей национальной истории и культуры, представляет собой многогранную историю Израиля — от истоков сионистского движения в конце XIX века до начала 2000-х гг. «Израиль — это история успеха глобального масштаба; это жизнеспособное, динамичное общество с развивающейся экономикой и наукой, получившее международное признание, находящееся в авангарде исследований, это радикальная демократия с крайней свободой слова и смелыми и агрессивными средствами массовой информации, которые без колебаний раскрывают все слабости правительства... Израильская культура богата, многогранна, инновационна и постоянно обновляется, в ней происходят столкновения между высокой и популярной культурой, европейской и американской культурами и культурой мизрахи, светской и религиозной еврейской культурой и так далее — все это отражает мозаику культурной жизни. Великая сионистская авантюра была и остается одной из самых удивительных попыток, когда-либо предпринимавшихся при построении нации: происходящей демократическим путем, без принуждения граждан, во время непрекращающейся экзистенциальной войны и без утраты моральных принципов, которыми она руководствовалась». (Анита Шапира)

анита шапира (Author), михаил росляков (Narrator)

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[German] - Abschied von Atatürk: Die Krisen und Konflikte der Neuen Türkei

100 JAHRE REPUBLIK TÜRKEI: DIE AKTUELLE DARSTELLUNG DER NEUEN TÜRKEI Die Türkei wird zu ihrem hundertsten Geburtstag im Oktober 2023 Atatürk, den 'Vater der Türken', feiern und zugleich – offiziell zumindest – Präsident Erdogan applaudieren, der eine Neue Türkei geschaffen hat. Günter Seufert und Christopher Kubaseck beschreiben eindrucksvoll, wie Erdogan das Land umpolt zu einem autoritären Staat, der sich nach innen zunehmend islamisch gibt, nach außen seine Einflusszonen vergrößert und keinen Konflikt scheut. Am 29. Oktober 1923 rief Atatürk die Türkische Republik aus. Der neue Staat schrieb sich Modernisierung und Säkularisierung auf die Fahnen und orientierte sich kulturell und politisch am Westen. Das Militär sorgte für die Einhaltung dieses Kurses, notfalls durch Putsche. Um die Jahrtausendwende war die Türkei auf dem Weg in die EU – doch davon kann unter Erdogan keine Rede mehr sein. Das Buch zeigt anschaulich, wie Atatürks Türkei verabschiedet wird: Die Trennung von Staat und Religion gilt nur noch pro forma und könnte bald ganz fallen. Ernst zu nehmende Opposition wird unterdrückt. Man kehrt dem Westen den Rücken, blickt selbstbewusst nach Osten und Süden, lässt Truppen in Syrien und Nordafrika operieren und beansprucht Rohstoffe im Mittelmeer. Doch in der türkischen Gesellschaft entsteht auch Neues: eine junge, liberale, demokratische, ökologische Zivilgesellschaft, die bereit ist zum Widerstand.

Christopher Kubaseck, Gunter Seufert, Günter Seufert (Author), Oliver Wronka (Narrator)

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Ancient Israel: An Enthralling Guide to Jewish Kingdoms and the Israelites

The ancient Israelites introduced one of the first monotheistic religions in the world. And it is still practiced today! The ancient Israelites emerged from Mount Sinai onto the hilly plains of Canaan and established a civilization that endured for hundreds of years. Even when the Israelites fell to incursions from foreign invaders and were subjected to torture and exile, they held fast to their belief system. They emerged from the Babylonian captivity as the people of Yehud. With the aid of Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, they rebuilt their sacred temple and got back on their feet. However, the Greeks and the Romans presented unique challenges to the Judeans. The Hellenization period threatened the foundation of Judaism and the commitment of the Jews to their faith due to forced conversions and the practice of Jewish customs being punishable by death. Regardless, the Jews persevered, and their faith and their steadfastness hold great significance today. This audiobook offers a deep dive into the history of the ancient Israelites and how they rose from nomadic tribes to establish a kingdom and a unique identity in Judea. By listening to this audiobook, you will discover the following: - How the ancient Israelites ended up in Canaan and began to build a civilization - The establishment of the United Kingdom of Israel - The split of the United Kingdom of Israel and the Babylonian invasion of the Kingdom of Judea - The Achaemenid liberation of the Jews and the formation of Yehud Medinata - The period and process of Hellenization commenced by the Greeks and the resulting Maccabean Revolt, which gave birth to the Hasmonean dynasty - The end of the Hasmoneans and the formation of the Herodian dynasty - And so much more! Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about the history of ancient Israel.

Billy Wellman (Author), Jay Herbert (Narrator)

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