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Underground to Palestine: And Other Writing on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East (Forbidden Bookshelf) Kindle Edition

by I. F. Stone (Author), Mark Crispin Miller (Editor), D. D. Guttenplan (Introduction) Format: Kindle Edition
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A moving and unforgettable eyewitness account of the courageous exodus of Holocaust survivors from post–World War II Europe to the Promised Land, now expanded with Stone’s frontline reporting on the Arab-Israeli crises of 1948–49 and the Suez War of 1956, and with a new foreword by D. D. Guttenplan

In the spring of 1946, American journalist I. F. Stone embarked on an incredible adventure, accompanying Holocaust survivors as they made their historic voyage from Eastern Europe to the biblical Promised Land. Undertaken in secrecy against the strict orders of Palestine’s British colonial governors, this harrowing escape began in the displaced persons camps of Germany and Poland. An illegal convoy of the homeless, proud, and determined, these refugees traveled by train and by foot across the European continent before boarding the ship that would carry them past the British blockade to their ancient, ancestral home.

No account of the historic twentieth-century exodus is as poignant, powerful, exhilarating, and dramatic as this acclaimed first-person narrative. Through the words of author I. F. Stone, one of America’s most provocative and revered investigative reporters, these courageous men, women, and children live again. Largely implicit but nevertheless unyielding is Stone’s belief in a binational Arab-Jewish state, a creed unacceptable to the Zionist movement of the time.

Included are essays written in the years following Israel’s establishment, reflecting on the state of the newly reborn nation and the volatile situation in the Middle East thirty years beyond the establishment of Mandatory Palestine. Caught between the immediate, innate sense of belonging he felt in Palestine and his own developing critique of Zionism, Stone wrote into each of these works a personal struggle, a question of justice unsolved today.

With a new introduction by D. D. Guttenplan, this edition reveals a perspective indispensable to understanding past and present tensions in the Middle East.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00S8YCMCO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media; 1st edition (March 3, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 3, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.1 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 466 pages
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  • Stuart M. Wilder
    5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing book by an amazing but largely forgotten pioneer investigative journalist
    Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2016
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    An amazing book by an amazing but largely forgotten pioneer investigative journalist. This is not a pro-Israel screed, but rather the story of how a group, devastated by the genocidal actions of European nations, organized and risked all, including the wrath of several European and Arab nations, to bring surviving brethren to a place where they could live, if not totally free from danger and fear, the means and ability to defend themselves. Has any other group since World War II even tried to organize itself like this to protect its similarly endangered members? Perhaps if they fewer tyrants and maniacal groups would feel to run rampant over them.
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  • Kay S
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
    Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2013
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    The stories captivated me and how he wove the past and present together just kept me tied to the book. The tragedies in life that crush most, but some come through as a brilliant diamond. The stories that came out of the holocaust makes most of us wish it never happened so that so many other rich lives would have contributed to this earth and people. May they rest in peace, and God's blessing of strength and hope upon those who survived as one of those diamonds.
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  • nerdavid
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating first hand history of birth and early life of Israel
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2019
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    Amazing first hand account of the birth and early life of Israel, and the prophetic call to deal with the refugees of 1948. A must read for anyone interested in the Middle East, especially Israel and Palestine.
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  • Yerushalmi
    5.0 out of 5 stars great story!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2013
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    A peak behind the scenes of the Aliyah Beth. The writer experienced some of the difficulties the Holocaust survivors faced in their effort to get to Mandate Palestine.
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  • Doug Barde-MacNamara
    1.0 out of 5 stars Puzzled on Hilltop...
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2017
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    I don't recall ordering, getting, or getting by mistake, 'Underground to Palestine.'
    I'd like to read it, though.
    Thanks, Doug?
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  • HoustonGirl
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2015
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    ITEMS ARRIVED AS STATED AND IN A TIMELY MANNER
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  • Kindle Customer
    2.0 out of 5 stars Description of book state not true!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2016
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    Book listed as good - spine broken and front cover torn. Listing was misleading.
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