Saturday, August 19, 2006

Recommended Reading on Palestine

Arabs & Israel for Beginners by Ron David (1993)[this is the best book for beginners now out of print but check on bookfinder, click the title of this post]
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi (2006)
Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State by Jonathan Cook (2006)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (2006)
One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
by Ali Abunimah (2006)
The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians
by Joseph Massad (2006)
The West Bank Wall: Unmaking Palestine by Ray Dolphin (2006)
Palestine And the Palestinians: A Social and Political History by Samih K. Farsoun, Naseer H. Aruri (2006)
The Politics of Apocalypse: The History and Influence of Christian Zionism by Dan Cohn-Sherbok (2006)
Palestinian Refugee Repatriation: Global Perspectives by Michael Dumper (2006)
Ethnocracy: Land and Politics in Israel/Palestine by Oren Yiftachel (2006)
The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine since 2003 by Tanya Reinhart (2006)
The Second Palestinian Intifada by Ramzy Baroud (2006)
The West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Geography of Occupation by Elisha Efrat (2006)
Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Sarah Roy (2006)
Israel and Palestine; Competing Histories by Mike Berry, Greg Philo (2006)
The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine since 2003 by Tanya Reinhart (2006)
The Second Palestinian Intifada by Ramzy Baroud (2006)
The West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Geography of Occupation by Elisha Efrat (2006)
Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Sarah Roy (2006)
Israel and Palestine; Competing Histories by Mike Berry, Greg Philo (2006)
The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel 1993-2005 bt Joel Beinin, Rebecca L. Stein, editors (2006)
Israel & Palestine: Competing Histories by Mike Berry and Greg Philo (2006)
Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility Under Occupation by Liza Taraki (editor) (2006)
The Power of Israel in the United States by James Petras (2006)
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (2006)
The Case Against Israel by Michael Neumann (2005)
The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective by John Quigley (2005)
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (Hardcover) by Norman G. Finkelstein (2005)
On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals became Israel's best friend by Timothy P. Weber (2005)
The Other Side of Isarel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide by Susan Nathan (2005)
Against the Wall: Israel's Barrier to Peace by Michael Sorkin (Editor)(2005)
Palestine: A Guide by Mariam Shahin, George Baramki Azar (photographer) (2005)
An Issue of Justice: Origins of the Israel/Palestine Conflict (Audiobook)
by Norman Finkelstein (2005)
Obstacles to Peace: A Reframing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Jeff Halper (2005) (Excellent maps)
The Peace Business: Money And Power in the Palestine-Israel Conflict by Markus Buillon (2004)
Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within by Uri Davis (2004)
The Myths of Zionism by John Rose (2004)
Culture and Customs of the Palestinians by Samih K. Farsoun (2004)
Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History Of The Palestinians 1876-1948 by Walid Khalidi (2004)
Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh (2004)
Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children by Catherine Cook, Adam Hanieh, Adah Kay (2004)
Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israel-Palestine Conflict
by Jan Selby (2004)
Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing About Zionism and Israel by Adam Shatz (Editor)(2004)
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Israel Shahak (2004)
Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law by Francis Anthony Boyle and Haider Abdul Shafi
(2003)
Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and Mossad Elimated Jews by Naeim Giladi (2003)
Palestine, Palestinians & International Law by Francis Anthony Boyle (2003)
Middle East Illusions by Noam Chomsky (2003)
Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Michael R. Fischbach (2003)
A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe (2003)
The Palestinian People: A History by Baruch Kimmerling, Joel S. Migdal (2003)
The Politics Of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem by Nur Masalha (2003)
Palestinian Refugees: Pawns to Political Actors by Ghada Hashem Talhami (2003)
In Hope and Despair: Life in the Palestinian refugee Camps (2003)
Live from Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action Against the Occupation by Nancy Stohlman, Laurieann Aladin (2003)
The Gun and the olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East by David Hirsch (2003)
Dishonest Broker: The Role of the United States in Palestine and Israel by Nasser Aruri (2003)
51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis by Lenni Brenner (2002)
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question by Edward W. Said & Christopher Hitchens (Editors)
Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return by Naseer Aruri (2001)
The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948
by Eugene L. Rogan & Avi Shlaim (Editors)(2001)
I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti (2001)
Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influences on U.S. Middle East Policy by Kathleen and Bill Christison (2001)
Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 by Meron Benvenisti (2000)
Palestinian Rights and Losses in 1948 by Sami Hadawi (2000)
The Israel/Palestine Question (Rewriting Histories) by Ilan Pappe (1999)
The Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky (1999)
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman G. Finkelstein (1999, 2003)
Palestinian Identity by Rashid Khalidi (1998)
Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians by Staughton Lynd, Sam Bahour , Alice Lynd (Editors) (1998)
Open Secrets: Israel Foreign and Nuclear Policies by Israel Shahak (1997)
The Invention of Ancient Israel and the silencing of Palestinian History by Keith Whitelam (1997)
I am a Palestinian Christian by Mitri Raheb (1995)
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 by Ilan Pappe (1994)
The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said (1992)
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948
by Walid Khalidi (Editor)(1992)
Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of Transfer in Zionist Thought by Nur Masalha (1992)
The Land Question in Palestine 1917-1939 by Kenneth W. Stein (1987)

The best place to search for used and discounted books is www.bookfinder.com. If anyone needs help locating any of these books or for finding a book on a particular aspect of the conflict, contact me. I work in a bookstore and would be happy to help. Also, please send me any recommendations. Molly (mollistan@gmail.com)

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