Grade 7 Up—An evenhanded treatment of a controversial subject. The first chapter presents a brief summary of the issues involved, with subsequent sections providing more detail about historical events in the region from ancient times through the present day. Topics discussed include the Zionist movement, the Palestinians' right of return, Yasir Arafat and the PLO, and the history of the settlements. Worth is careful to present arguments from all sides of the conflict, supporting them with quotations from primary sources. The writing is clear and factual, and the information is up-to-date. Archival photographs and several historical maps are interspersed throughout, and sidebar essays address such subjects as "Jewish Leaders in Palestine" and "What Does It Mean to Be Israeli?" The book concludes with a chronology of events from 1000 B.
