See what’s new in October: Among this month’s new titles are novels by Jonathan Franzen, a history of Black cinema and a biography by Katie Couric.Learn what you should be reading this fall: Our collection of reviews on books coming out this season includes biographies, novels, memoirs and more.Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. Sokatch’s answers to all these questions can be summed up in two words: It’s complicated. He also addresses some common and contentious questions such as whether Israel can be both a Jewish state and a democracy and if its rule over the Palestinians is akin to apartheid. He delivers on this promise, providing an engaging and evenhanded, if cursory, history of the conflict, from its 19th-century origins to the most recent mini-war between Israel and Hamas in May 2021. of the New Israel Fund (a U.S.-based organization that supports progressive causes in Israel), promises the reader that “after you’ve read it, you’ll be able to hold your own in any Israel conversation, at any dinner party.” If you fall into the camp of the “curious, confused, and conflicted,” then this book is for you. Amid this often angry exchange, it can be difficult and daunting for anyone who isn’t a partisan to ask an innocent question, let alone voice a personal opinion. Supporters of each side battle it out, insisting on the innocence of their side and the guilt of the other. Now known as the Sacramento River Massacre, the scene was described by member of the expedition as “a scene of slaughter which is unequalled in the West.Few issues arouse as much passion and fury as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (even its designation as a conflict between two sides is now hotly contested). They also skirmished with local indigenous peoples and carried out at least two massacres, including the murder of several hundred Wintu people in early April. They nearly came to blows with the Mexican authorities after planting an American flag atop Gavilán Peak (now Frémont Peak, near Salinas, California), but retreated into the Oregon Territory.
Polk made no secret of his desire to annex California and, as Heidenreich points out, the so-called surveying expedition “went to California with a howitzer.”įrémont’s expedition entered Mexican territory in December of 1845 and quietly informed some of the roughly 800 American settlers of their willingness to assist a rebellion. Polk secretly instructed Frémont to invade California if war with Mexico broke out-in fact many historians believe that he actually ordered Frémont to start the war himself. Polk, whose annexation of Texas was about to set off the Mexican-American War, sent Frémont on an expedition to survey the area of the Great Basin and the Great Salt Lake. American explorer, military officer, and politician John Charles Fremont.Įnter Charles Frémont, a captain in the U.S.
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