The Railways of Palestine and Israel
Author | : Paul Cotterell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780905878041 |
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Author | : Paul Cotterell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780905878041 |
Author | : Pinhas Walter Pick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1316 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Source Wikipedia |
Publisher | : Booksllc.Net |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230815718 |
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Israel Railway Museum, Jaffa-Jerusalem railway, Jezreel Valley railway, LMS Stanier Class 8F, Palestine Railways, ROD 2-8-0, USATC S100 Class, USATC S200 Class. Excerpt: The Jaffa-Jerusalem railway (also J & J) is a railroad that connected Jaffa and Jerusalem. The line was built in Ottoman Palestine by the French company Societe du Chemin de Fer Ottoman de Jaffa a Jerusalem et Prolongements and inaugurated in 1892, after previous attempts by the Jewish philanthropist Moses Montifiore failed. While the first rail track in the Middle East was laid elsewhere, the line is considered to be the first Middle Eastern railway. The line was originally built at 1 m narrow gauge, later rebuilt to 1.05 m and then to 1.435 m standard gauge. The line was operated by the French, the Ottomans and after World War I, the British. After its closure in 1948, it was re-opened as the Tel Aviv - Jerusalem railway by Israel Railways. Moshe Montefiore spoke of establishing a railway between Jaffa and Jerusalem in 1838. He met with Culling Eardley, who was also interested in the project, but stated that he would not be part of it if religious institutions would be involved. In 1856, he contacted the British prime minister, Lord Palmerston, and discussed the construction of a railway. Temple supported the plan, commenting that it would benefit both Britain and Turkey. A meeting was organized with the Ottoman Grand Vizier Aali Pasha upon his visit to London on May 20, 1856, where an agreement on the principles was signed. As a result, Laurence Oliphant, an author and businessman who became a Member of Parliament in 1865, also put his force behind the project. On December 8, 1856, Count Pawe Strzelecki, also involved in the project, sent a message from Istanbul that the Ottoman government was not willing to provide land for the...
Author | : Colin Alexander |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2020-03-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445685965 |
Examining the tremendous influence of Great Britain on the railways of the Middle East, with a wealth of unpublished images.
Author | : Ghada Karmi |
Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2007-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Celebrated author Ghada Karmi argues that the only practical solution to the conflict is for Palestinians and Israelis to live together in a secular democratic state
Author | : Rashid Khalidi |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1627798544 |
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.
Author | : Ilan Pappé |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 |
ISBN | : 0415169488 |
This study assimilates diverse interpretations of the origins of the Middle East conflict with emphasis on the fight for Palestine and its religious and political roots. It draws largely on the historical revisionism of the last two decades.
Author | : A. F. Kirby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anthony S. Travis |
Publisher | : Hebrew University Magnes Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jonathan Schneer |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1408809702 |
In the middle of the First World War, the British War Cabinet approved and issued a statement in the form of a letter that encouraged the settlement of the Jewish people in Palestine. Signed by the Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the Balfour Declaration remains one of the most important documents of the last hundred years. Jonathan Schneer explores the story behind the declaration and its unforeseen consequences that have shaped the modern world, placing it in context paying attention to the fascinating characters who conceived, opposed and plotted around it - among them Lloyd George, Lord Rothschild, T.E. Lawrence, Prince Faisal and Aubrey Herbert (the man who was 'Greenmantle'). The Balfour Declaration brings vividly to life the origins of one of the world's longest lasting and most damaging conflicts.