Siddiqa, A. (2019). Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black. Strategic Studies, 39(1), 105-107.

Introduction

November 2017, marked a century of the Balfour Declaration which promised the “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. In the book, Enemies and Neighbours, Ian Black, who is a veteran British journalist and has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East, writes an insightful, although mostly dispiriting, history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 till date. The book takes the reader along a linear history of the conflict, moving sequentially through its main events.