Links about Israel
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il
Ha'aretz (daily newspaper): http://www.haaretzdaily.com
Jerusalem Post (daily newspaper): http://www.jpost.com
Jerusalem Report (biweekly): http://www.jrep.com
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies: http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa
Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations: http://davis.huji.ac.il
Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace: http://www.truman.huji.ac.il
Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies: http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss
Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research: http://www.tau.ac.il/peace
Middle East Review of International Affairs (electronic journal): meria.idc.ac.il
Arutz 7 (right-wing radio): http://www.israelnationalnews.com
B'tselem (human rights organization): http://www.btselem.org
Israel Resource Review: http://www.israelbehindthenews.com
Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI): http://www.memri.org
Palestinian Media Watch: http://www.pmw.org.il
Links about Palestine
Birzeit University Guide to Palestine's Websites: http://www.birzeit.edu/links
Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics: http://www.pcbs.org
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research: http://www.pcpsr.org
Palestinian Academic Society for Study of International Affairs (PASSIA): http://www.passia.org
Institute for Palestine Studies: http://www.ipsjps.org
Jerusalem Media and Communications Center: http://www.jmcc.org
Jerusalem Times (weekly): http://www.jerusalem-times.net
Al-Haq - Law in the Service of Man: http://www.alhaq.org
Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group: http://www.phrmg.org
Others
Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) - joint Israeli-Palestinian organization: http://www.ipcri.org
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA): http://www.un.org/unrwa
Further Reading for each Chapter
General Introductory Reading
P.R. Kumaraswamy (2006) Historical Dictionary of the Arab–Israel Conflict.
The Scarecrow Press.
Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin (eds) (2001) The Israel–Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict, 6th edn.
Penguin Books.
Chapter 1
Donna Robinson Divine (1994) Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power, Lynne Rienner.
Mark Tessler (1994) A History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict.
Indiana University Press.
David Kushner (ed.) (1986), Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period: Political, Social, and Economic Transformation, Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi and E. J. Brill.
Chapter 2
Shlomo Avineri (1981) The Making of Modern Zionism: The IntellectualOrigins of the Jewish State.
Basic Books.
Yosef Gorny (1987) Zionism and the Arabs, 1882–1948: A Study of Ideology. Clarendon Press.
Shmuel Ettinger (1976) “The Modern Period,” in H. H. Ben-Sasson (ed.), A History of the Jewish People.
Harvard University Press.
Chapter 3
Rashid Khalidi (1997) Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness.
Columbia University Press.
Albert Hourani (1991) A History of the Arab Peoples.
Harvard University Press.
Neville Mandel (1976) The Arabs and Zionism before World War I.
University of California Press.
Chapter 4
Alan Dowty (1998, 2001) The Jewish State: A Century Later.
University of California Press.
Tom Segev (2000) One Palestine, Complete.
Metropolitan Books.
Benny Morris (1988, 2004) The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949.
Cambridge University Press.
Chapter 5
Michael B. Oren (2002) Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Oxford University Press.
Ze’ev Schiff and Ehud Ya’ari (1986) Israel’s Lebanon War.
Unwin.
Amal Jamal (2005) The Palestinian National Movement: Politics of Contention 1967-2005.
Indiana University Press.
Chapter 6
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) (1995) Through Secret Channels.
Garnet Publishing.
Yossi Beilin (1999) Touching Peace: From the Oslo Accord to a Final Agreement.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Charles Enderlin (2003) Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the MIddle East, 1995-2002.
Other Press.
Chapter 7
Matthew Levitt (2006) Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad.
Yale University Press.
Matt Rees (2004) Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East.
Free Press.
Khalid Harub (2006) Hamas: A Beginner's Guide.
Pluto Press.
Chapter 8
Aharon Klieman (2000) Compromising Palestine: A Guide to Final Status Negotiations.
Columbia University Press.
Akiva Eldar (2001) “Custom-Designed Political Plan,” Ha’aretz, August 20.
Edward Said (2000) The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After.
Pantheon.
Chapter 9
Bernard Wasserstein (2003) Israelis and Palestinians.
Yale University Press.
Derek J. Penslar (2007) Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective.
Routledge.
Sari Nusseibeh (2007) Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux.