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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Select Bibliography
By Patrick S. O’Donnell
Department of Philosophy
Santa Barbara City College (2009)
Abbas, Mahmoud (Abu Mazin). Through Secret Channels: The Road to Oslo—Senior PLO Leader Abu Mazen’s Revealing Story of the Negotiations with Israel. Reading, UK:
Garnet, 1995.
Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim. The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University
Press, 1971.
Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim. Palestinian Rights: Affirmation and Denial. Wilmette, IL: Medina Press, 1982.
Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, ed. The Arab-Israeli Confrontation of June 1967: An Arab Perspective. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970.
Aranson, Geoffrey. Israel, Palestinians and the Intifada: Creating Facts on the West Bank. London: Kegan Paul International, 1990.
Aruri, Naseer H. The Obstruction of Peace: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995.
Aruri, Naseer H. Dishonest Broker: The Role of the United States in Palestine and Israel. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2003.
Aruri, Naseer H., ed. Occupation: Israel Over Palestine. London: Zed Books, 1984.
Asali, Kamil J., ed. Jerusalem in History. New York: Olive Branch Press/Interlink, 2000.
Auyyad, Abdelaziz A. Arab Nationalism and the Palestinians, 1850-1939. Jerusalem: Passia, 1999.
Avineri, Shlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism. New York: Basic Books, 1981.
Baroud, Ramzy. The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
Beinin, Joel and Rebecca L. Stein, eds. The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, with the Middle East Research and Information Project, 2006.
Ben-Ami, Shlomo. Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Ben-Eliezer, Uri. The Making of Israeli Militarism, 1936-1956. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 1998.
Benvenisti, Eyal. Legal Dualism: The Absorption of the Occupied Territories into Israel. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
Benvenisti, Eyal. The International Law of Occupation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Benvenisti, Meron. Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
Bernstein, Deborah S. Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Bisharat, Geroge. Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule: Law and Disorder in the West Bank. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1989.
Black, Edwin. The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine. New York: Basic Books, 2001. ed.
Black, Ian and Benny Morris. Israel’s Secret Wars: The Untold History of Israeli Intelligence. London: Hamish Manilton, 1991.
Bowen, Stephen, ed. Human Rights, Self-Determination, and Political Change in the Occupied
Territories. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997.
Boyle, Francis A. Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2003.
Brand, Laurie. Palestinians in the Arab World: Institution Building and the Search for a State. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Budeiri, Musa. The Palestine Communist Party, 1919-1948: Arab and Jew in the Struggle for Internationalism. London: Ithaca, 1979.
Brynen, Rex, ed. Echoes of the Intifada: Regional Repercussions of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Boulder, C: Westview Press, 1991.
Carey, Roane, ed. The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid. London: Verso, 2001.
Cheshin, Amir S., Bill Hutman, and Avi Melamed. Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Chomsky, Noam. The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999 ed.
Chomsky, Noam. Middle East Illusions. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Cobban, Helena. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: People, Power and Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Cohen, Esther Rosalind. Human Rights in the Israeli-Occupied Territories, 1967-1982. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1985.
Cohen, Michael J. Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1982.
Cook, Jonathan. Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
Cook, Jonathan. Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair. London: Zed Books, 2008.
Cook, Jonathan. Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East. London: Pluto Press, 2008.
Cypel, Sylvain. Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse. New York: Other Press, 2006.
David, Joseph E. ‘Beyond the Janus Face of Zionist Legalism: The Theo-Political Conditions of the Jewish Law Project,’ Ratio Juris, Vol. 18, No. 2 (June 2005): 206- 235.
Davis, Uri. Israel: An Apartheid State. London: Zed Press, 1987.
Dawisha, Adeed. Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Dowty, Alan. The Jewish State: A Century Later. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
Dowty, Alan and Alvin S. Rubenstein, eds. Arab Israeli Conflict: Perspectives. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.
Dunsky, Marda. Pens and Swords: How the Mainstream American Media Report the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
El-Eini, Roza I.M. Mandated Landscape: British Imperial Rule in Palestine, 1929-1948. London: Frank Cass, 2005.
El-Haj, Nadia Abu. Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self- Fashioning in Israeli Society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Ellis, Marc H. Judaism Does Not Equal Israel. New York: The New Press, 2009.
Elon, Amos. Jerusalem: City of Mirrors. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1989.
Elon, Amos. Jerusalem: Battleground of Memories. New York: Kodansha International, 1995.
Enderlin, Charles. Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002. New York: Other Press, 2003.
Falk, Richard and Burns H. Weston. ‘The Relevance of International Law to Palestinian Rights in the West Bank and Gaza: In Legal Defense of the Intifada,’ Harvard International Law Journal 32, No. 1 (1991): 191-204.
Farsoun, Samih K. (with Christian E. Zacharia). Palestine and the Palestinians. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
Feige, Michael. One Space, Two Places: Gush Emunim, Peace Now, and the Construction of Israeli Space. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2001.
Finkelstein, Norman G.. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. London: Verso, 1995.
Finkelstein, Norman G. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008 ed.
Fischbach, Michael R. Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab- Israeli Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Flapan, Simha. The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities. New York: Pantheon, 1987.
Fleischmann, Ellen I. The Nation and Its ‘New’ Women: The Palestinian Women’s Movement, 1920-1948. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Friedland, Roger and Richard Hecht. To Rule Jerusalem. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Friedman, Robert I. Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel’s West Bank Settler Movement. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
Galnoor, Itzhak. The Partition of Palestine: Decision Crossroads in the Zionist Movement. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Gans, Chaim. A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Gazit, Shlomo. Trapped Fools: Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories. London: Frank Cass, 2003.
Gerner, Deborah J. One Land, Two Peoples: The Conflict over Palestine. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2nd ed., 1994.
Gershoni, Israel and James Jankowski, eds. Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Ghanem, As’ad. The Palestinian Regime: A “Partial Democracy.” Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001.
Glass, Charles. ‘The Great Lie,’ London Review of Books, Vol. 22, No. 23, 30 November
2000.
Glass, Charles. ‘Balfour, Weizmann and the Creation of Israel,’ London Review of Books,
Vol. 23, No. 11, 7 June 2001.
Gordon, Neve. Israel’s Occupation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.
Gordon, Neve and Ruchama Marton, eds. Torture, Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel. London: Zed Books, 1995.
Gorenberg, Gershom. The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967- 1977. New York: Times Books, 2006.
Gorny, Yosef. Zionism and the Arabs, 1882-1948: A Study of Ideology. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1987.
Grabar, Oleg. The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Graham-Brown, Sarah. Education, Repression, Liberation: Palestinians. London: World University Service, 1984.
Hadawi, Sami. Bitter Harvest: A Modern History of Palestine. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1989.
Hajjar, Lisa. Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza. London: University of California Press, 2005.
Hart, Alan. Arafat: Terrorist or Peacemaker? London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984.
Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996.
Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader. Philadelphia, PA:
Jewish Publication Society of America, 1997.
Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State. New York: Dover, 1989 (original published by the
American Zionist Emergency Council, New York, 1946).
Hiltemann, Joost R. Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women’s Movements in the Occupied Territories. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Hussein, Hussein Abu and Fiona McKay. Access Denied: Palestinian Land Rights in Israel. London: Zed Books, 2003.
Karmi, Ghada. Married to Another Man: Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine. London: Pluto Press, Keddie, Nikki R. Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006 ed. 2007.
Khalaf, Issa. Politics in Palestine: Arab Factionalism and Social Disintegration. 1939-1948. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991.
Khalidi, Rashid. Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making during the 1982 War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Khalidi, Rashid. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006.
Khalidi, Rashid, et al., eds. The Origins of Arab Nationalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Khalidi, Walid, ed. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
Kimmerling, Baruch. Zionism and Territory: The Socio-Territorial Dimensions of Zionist
Politics. Berkeley, CA; University of California Press, 1983.
Kimmerling, Baruch. The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society and the Military. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
Kimmerling, Baruch. Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians. London: Verso, 2003.
Kimmerling, Baruch, ed. The Israeli State and Society: Boundaries and Frontiers. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Kimmerling, Baruch and Joel S. Migdal. The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
King, Mary Elizabeth. A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance. New York: Nation Books, 2007.
Kovel, Joel. Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine. London: Pluto Press, 2007.
Krämer, Gudrun. A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Kretzmer, David. The Legal Status of the Arabs in Israel. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
Kretzmer, David. The Legal Status of Arabs in Israel. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
Kretzmer, David. The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.
Langer, Felicia. With My Own Eyes: Israel and the Occupied Territories, 1967-1973. London: Ithaca Press, 1975.
Law, Stephen, ed. Israel, Palestine and Terror. London: Continuum, 2008.
Lesch, Ann Mosely. Arab Politics in Palestine, 1917-1939: The Frustration of a Nationalist Movement. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979.
LeVine, Mark. Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880- 1948. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
Lockman, Zachary. Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
Lockman, Zachary and Joel Beinin, eds. Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli
Occupation. Boston, MA: South End Press/A MERIP Book, 1989.
Lustik, Ian. Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel’s Control of a National Minority. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1980.
Lustik, Ian. Unsettled States, Disputed Lands. New York: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Makdisi, Saree. Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2008.
Mandel, Neville J. Arabs and Zionism before World War I. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976.
Maoz, Zeev. Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel’s Security and Foreign Policy. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Marmor, Andrei, ‘Entitlement to Land and the Right of Return: An Embarrassing
Challenge for Liberal Zionism’ (2003), USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper
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Masalha, Nur. The Expulsion of Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882- 1948. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
Masalha, Nur. A Land Without People: Israel, Transfer and the Palestinians. London: Faber and Faber, 1997.
Masalha, Nur. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem. London: Pluto, 2003.
Masalha, Nur. The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology, and Post-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine. London: Zed Books, 2007.
Mattar, Philip. The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Mayer, Arno. Plowshares into Swords: From Zionism to Israel. London: Verso, 2008.
McDowall, David. Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.
McGeough, Paul. Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas. New York: New Press, 2009.
Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Mishal, Shaul and Reuben Aharoni. Speaking Stones: Communiques from the Intifada Underground. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
Mishal, Shaul and Avraham Sela. The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence, and Coexistence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Morris, Benny. Israel’s Border Wars, 1949-1956. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.