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Sources on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict

Assembled by Stephen Shalom

The Obstruction of Peace.
The United States,
Israel, and the Palestinians.

Aruri, Naseer. Monroe,
ME: Common Courage Press, 1995.

The Fateful Triangle:
the United States,
Israel, and the Palestinians

Chomsky, Noam. Cambridge,
MA: South End Press, Updated Ed., 1999.

Image and Reality of the
Israel-Palestine Conflict

Finkelstein, Norman. Verso, 1995.

Includes powerful critique arguing that Benny Morris, while making a
valuable contribution, doesn't go far enough. Morris, Flapan, Shlaim,
Segev, and Pappé are among Israel's "new historians"
who have challenged traditional Zionist myths.

The Birth of Israel:
Myths and Realities

Flapan, Simha. Pantheon, 1987.

Zionism and the
Palestinians, 1917-1947

Flapan, Simha. New York:
Barnes & Noble Books, 1979.

One Land, Two Peoples:
the Conflict over Palestine

Gerner, Deborah J. Boulder, CO:
Westview, 1994, 2nd ed. Basic text.

Israel in Search of a War:
The Sinai Campaign, 1955-1956

Golani, Motti. Brighton:
Sussex Academy Press, 1998.

Bitter Harvest:
a Modern History of Palestine

Hadawi, Sami. New York:
Olive Branch, 1989.

The Gun and the Olive Branch

Hirst, David London:
Faber & Faber, 1984.

From Haven to Conquest:
Readings in Zionism and
the Palestine Problem until 1948

Khalidi, Walid, ed. Washington, Dc:
Institute for Palestine Studies, 1987 (1971).

Arabs in the Jewish State:
Israel's Control of a National Minority

Lustick, Ian. Austin: University of Texas, 1980.

For the Land and the Lord:
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel

Lustick, Ian. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988.

Imperial Israel and the Palestinians

Masalha, Nur. Pluto Press, 2000.

1948 and After

Morris, Benny. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1990.

Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956

Morris, Benny. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1993.

Righteous Victims:
a History of the Zionist­Arab
Conflict, 1881­1999

Morris, Benny. New York: Knopf, 1999.

The Birth of the Palestinian
Refugee Problem, 1947­1949

Morris, Benny. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1987.

The Palestinian Catastrophe

Palumbo, Michael. London: 1987.

The Making of the Arab­Israeli
Conflict, 1947­51

Pappé, Ilan. New York:
I.B. Tauris (St. Martin's Press), 1992.

The Emergence of the Palestinian­Arab
National Movement, 2 Vols.

Porath, Yehoshua. London, Cass, 1974, 1977.

Blaming the Victims:
Spurious Scholarship and
the Palestinian Question

Said, Edward W., and Christopher Hitchens, eds. Verso, 1988.

One Palestine, Complete:
Jews and Arabs under the Mandate

Segev, Tom. New York:
Metropolitan Books, 2000.

Collusion Across the Jordan:
King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement,
and the Partition of Palestine

Shlaim, Avi. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1988.

The Iron Wall:
Israel and the Arab World

Shlaim, Avi. New York:
W.W. Norton, 2000.

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict:
A History with Documents

Smith, Charles D. Boston: Bedford/St.
Martin's, 2001, 4th ed. Good basic text.

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