[Peace-discuss] ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT

[Al Kagan]

FYI

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>From: "David Green" <davegreen48 at yahoo.com>
>To: "Al Kagan" <akagan at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Re: reading list
>Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 22:04:24 -0600
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>Thanks Al. I'll attach it to you and copy it below, so you can send it to
>the list either or both ways.
>
>David
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>A BRIEF, SELECTIVE, IDIOSYNCRATIC BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT
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>Websites
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>1. zmag.org: mideast watch, includes articles by Noam Chomsky, Edward Said,
>Uri Avnery, Robert Fisk, Amira Hass, Tanya Reinhart, Hanan Ashrawi-concise
>and insightful articles on the failure of the peace process and beyond.
>2. ipsjps.org: Journal of Palestine Studies includes archived articles, and
>indispensable article in Summer 2000 by Sara Roy on the economic/social
>consequences of the peace process.
>3. abunimah.org: Ali Abunimah is an Arab-American activist at the University
>of Chicago who writes letters to the media and posts them on his site.
>Letters to NPR are most interesting. Also, portal to numerous Palestinian
>websites.
>4.  electronicintifada.net: media criticism from Abunimah, Laurie
>King-Irani, and Nigel Parry, including a section on historical myths with
>links to related historical summaries on merip.org and Jews for Social
>Justice (Berkeley).
>5. merip.org: site of the Middle East Research and Information Project,
>which publishes Middle East Report, along with JPS the two major scholarly
>publications with a strong web presence.
>6. nimn.org: perspectives of "not in my name" Jewish dissidents, includes
>vital Norman Finkelstein article on the "Myths of 1948."
>7. normanfinkelstein.com: major Jewish dissident's views on the Middle East
>and the "Holocaust industry."
>8. alternativenews.org and fmep.org: Information on settlement activity and
>violence from Israel and the occupied territories-background, maps, etc.
>9. palestinecenter.org: concise policy briefs under Recent Publications from
>Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine.
>10. gush-shalom.org: organization of leading Israeli dissident Uri Avnery,
>cogent analyses of current events.
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>Books
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>1. The Palestinians were always there: Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity,
>and Edward Said, The Question of Palestine, The Politics of Dispossession,
>and Said and Christopher Hitchens (eds.), Blaming the Victims: Spurious
>Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, Nur Masalha, Expulsion of the
>Palestinians.
>2. Broad, accessible primers: Ron David, Arabs and Israel for Beginners,
>Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism
>and Israel.
>3. The diplomacy of Zionist imperialism: Israeli leaders "never miss an
>opportunity to miss an opportunity": Avi Shlaim (Israeli "new historian"),
>The Politics of Partition and The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Ilan
>Pappe (the most enlightened of the "new historians") The Making of the
>Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951.
>4. Israel's wars of "self-defense": Simha Flapan, The Birth of Israel: Myths
>and Realities, David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch, Norman
>Finkelstein, Myth and Reality in the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Noam
>Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the
>Palestinians.
>5. Israel as a client state and a nuclear power: Andrew and Leslie Cockburn,
>Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship,
>Seymour Hersh, The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American
>Foreign Policy.
>6. An Israeli disguises himself as a Palestinian and finds out what it feels
>like: Yoram Binur, My Enemy, My Self
>7. The problem of Israel as a colonialist state: Maxime Rodinson, Israel: A
>Colonial-Settler State?, Gershon Shafir, Land, Labor, and the Origins of the
>Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Simha Flapan, Zionism and the Palestinians.
>8. Palestinians under occupation: Norman Finkelstein, The Rise and Fall of
>Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years, Edward Said, The End of
>the Peace Process.
>9. Israeli behavior during the Holocaust: Lenni Brenner, Zionism in the Age
>of Dictators, Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the
>Holocaust.
>10. Jewish "extremism": Robert Friedman, Zealots for Zion.
>11. Palestinian Israelis: Sabri Jiryis, The Arabs in Israel.
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>Compiled by: David Green
>davegreen48 at yahoo.com
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Al Kagan <akagan at uiuc.edu>
>To: <davegreen48 at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 1:28 PM
>Subject: reading list
>
>
>>  David, I just had a look at the reading list you passed around last
>>  Saturday.  Can you make it available on the web, or send it to the
>>  IMC list by e-mail?  Many thanks.
>>  --
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>>
>>  Al Kagan
>>  African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
>>  Africana Unit, Room 328
>>  University of Illinois Library
>>  1408 W. Gregory Drive
>>  Urbana, IL 61801, USA
>>
>>  tel. 217-333-6519
>>  fax. 217-333-2214
>>  e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
>
>

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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu