Reading Suggestions...
Israel-Palestine Conflict
SJA recommends the following articles, interviews, and books for anyone wishing to develop a better understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the United States’ role in it.
(Articles and Interviews) :
Stephen Shalom, Question and Answer on Gaza ZNet , January 16, 2009.
Noam Chomsky, Exterminate All the Brutes: Gaza 2009 ZNet , January 20, 2009.
Noam Chomsky,Obama on Israel-Palestine ZNet , January 26, 2009.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,Statement by Prof. Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories December 27, 2008.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,Statement of Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967 for Presentation to the Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the Situation in the Gaza Strip, 9 January 2009
Avi Shlaim, Leading Israeli Scholar Avi Shlaim: Israel Committing ‘State Terror’ in Gaza Attack, Preventing Peace (interview), Democracy Now! January 14, 2009.
US Rabbis Urge Obama to Push for Gaza Ceasefire (interview), Democracy Now! January 15, 2009.
Amer Shurrab, “Palestinian US College Grad Loses 2 Brothers in Israeli Shooting; Father Watched Son Bleed to Death After Israeli Troops Bar Ambulances†(interview), Democracy Now! January 21-22, 2009. Available as Part I and Part II .
Al Jazeera English,War on Gaza (collection of news and analysis).
(Books, listed approximately in their order of accessibility) :
Norman Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict , second edition (Norton, 2003).
Avi Shlaim, War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History , revised edition (Penguin, 1995).
Phyllis Bennis, Inside Israel-Palestine: The Conflict Explained (New Internationalist, 2008).
Noam Chomsky, Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians , updated edition (South End Press, 1999).
Howard Friel and Richard Falk, Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East (Verso, 2007).
Ilan PappÃ, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld, 2007).
Ilan PappÃ,A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples , second edition (Cambridge, 2006).
Avi Shlaim,The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Norton, 2001).
Richard A. Falk and Jean Allain, Unlocking the Middle East: The Writings of Richard Falk (Olive Branch Press, 2002).
Tom Segev, 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East (Metropolitan, 2007).
Zeev Maoz, Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy (U of Michigan Press, 2006).
