Westview Profiles/Nations of the Contemporary Middle East

Photographs are courtesy of the Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C., the World Zionist
Organization Press Service, and Gershon Kieval.

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information, if any; however, that review neither constitutes CIA authentication of material nor
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Copyright © 1985, 1993 by Westview Press, Inc.

Published in 1993 in the United States of America by Westview Press, Inc., 5500 Central
Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80301-2877, and in the United Kingdom by Westview Press, 36
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reich, Bernard.

Israel, land of tradition and conflict / Bernard Reich and Gershon R. Kieval
. -- 2nd ed.

p. cm. -- (Westview profiles. Nations of the contemporary
Middle East)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8133-8222-X. -- ISBN 0-8133-8223-8 (pbk.)

1. Israel. I. Kieval, Gershon R. II. Title. III. Series:
Profiles. Nations of the contemporary Middle East.

DS102.95.R45 1993

956.94-dc20

93- 16314

CIP

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∞ of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper
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