Books on Palestine/Israel

[Anonymous]

Killing a King by Dan Ephron about the peace process and the assassination of Rabin, and his killer. A great narrative story.

[Anonymous]

Israel: A Guide to the almost Misunderstood Country by Noa Tishby.

[Anonymous]

History/Historical background
Enemies and Neighbors, by Ian Black

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, by David Fromkin

Israel: A History, by Anita Shapiro

The Iron Cage, by Rashid Khalid
Hamas, by Beverley Milton-Edeards and Stephen Farrell

Fiction:
A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz

[Anonymous]

Neil Caplan, The Israeli-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories, is a pretty even-handed history that does a good job of explaining things.

Menachem Klein, Lives in Common, is about the Jews, Muslims, and Christians who lived in Palestine at the turn of the 20th century with generally tolerance and social connections.

[Anonymous]

My husband is a Middle East expert, and he recommends From Beruit to Jerusalem to anyone who asks.

[Anonymous]

The Accidental Empire

Failing Peace, Sara Roy

Michael Oren's Six Days of War

Killing a King, by Dan Ephron, is about the rise of the Israeli far right and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

[Anonymous]

City of Oranges by Adam Lebor

[Anonymous]

Israel: A Guide to the almost Misunderstood Country by Noa Tishby.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Israel/Noa-Tishby/9781982144944

Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted, by Daniel Sokatch
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/can-we-talk-about-israel-9781635573879/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On Palestine by Noam Chomsky

I Was Born Here, I Was Born There by Mourid Bhargouti

The Holocaust Industry by Norm Finkelstein

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman

The Holocaust Industry has little to do with Israel-Palestine. Image and Reality is his best work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On Palestine by Noam Chomsky

I Was Born Here, I Was Born There by Mourid Bhargouti

The Holocaust Industry by Norm Finkelstein

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman

The Holocaust Industry has little to do with Israel-Palestine. Image and Reality is his best work.

It has to do with the pathos behind how Israel is justified to even exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband is a Middle East expert, and he recommends From Beruit to Jerusalem to anyone who asks.

Well, I’m from Palestine and I don’t agree.FYI- most Palestinians can’t stand Friedman and I would recommend books that feel more representative to people in the region. I like the Norman Finkelstein suggestions, also Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe have “On Palestine.”Pappe and Chomsky also did “Gaza in Crisis” if you want more of a read that’s more connected to where things currently are. Someone also mentioned Remi Kanazi’s work and that’s good too.

[Anonymous]

Friedman is good not necessarily for a pro-Palestinian slant but because he explains the situation in the ENTIRE region and how the dynamics between Arabs and Westerners and Muslims vs Christians/Jews and other Muslims plays a part in it. I suggested Chomsky and I agree with your Ilan Pappe suggestion as well for a pro-Palestinian POV but I wouldn’t write off Friedman for being more objective. He does help break down how vast the conflicts stretch and the multifaceted aspects of any potential conflict or solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friedman is good not necessarily for a pro-Palestinian slant but because he explains the situation in the ENTIRE region and how the dynamics between Arabs and Westerners and Muslims vs Christians/Jews and other Muslims plays a part in it. I suggested Chomsky and I agree with your Ilan Pappe suggestion as well for a pro-Palestinian POV but I wouldn’t write off Friedman for being more objective. He does help break down how vast the conflicts stretch and the multifaceted aspects of any potential conflict or solution.

I wouldn’t call Friedman “objective.” I would go so far as to call him islamophobic and anti Palestinian.

Respectfully,
A Palestinian.

[Anonymous]

Color me shocked that Palestinians don't like Friedman, a Jew. /s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friedman is good not necessarily for a pro-Palestinian slant but because he explains the situation in the ENTIRE region and how the dynamics between Arabs and Westerners and Muslims vs Christians/Jews and other Muslims plays a part in it. I suggested Chomsky and I agree with your Ilan Pappe suggestion as well for a pro-Palestinian POV but I wouldn’t write off Friedman for being more objective. He does help break down how vast the conflicts stretch and the multifaceted aspects of any potential conflict or solution.

I wouldn’t call Friedman “objective.” I would go so far as to call him islamophobic and anti Palestinian.

Respectfully,
A Palestinian.

Well, that’s your opinion. He spoke recently on a podcast saying he will be advocating with every ounce he has to not further fund Israel and especially not without caveats that Netanyahu cannot continue any additional settlements in the West Bank. To me, he’s not anti-Palestinian and he’s not pro-Israel. He is someone who understands you cannot simply transplant Western notions of government into the Middle East and call it good.