please help me find a book about Palestine/Isreal conflict
But not just any book. I’d like to understand the history of BOTH sides and the origins and the conflict and the politics. I’d like to know what I am supporting, regardless of what side it is.
Just posting because I want to check back on any suggestions
Capable_Librarian_77 on
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Also l will say that you should read books from both sides but every author is definitely going to be biased one way or another. If the goal is to sit on the fence and find a cozy middle ground you will just get more confused. This is a textbook case of settler colonialism and apartheid; either you support it or you oppose it.
skybluepink77 on
There are so many, and I’m on the same quest. You may not always be able to find that ‘independent, neutral’ voice you want – I haven’t found one yet – but I’m reading Raja Shehadeh’s Language of War, Language of Peace.
He writes extensively on this subject, from a Palestinian angle, but he is an ardent pacifist who wants to see the conflict resolved.
I am also reading some books by Israeli former PM, Ehud Barak, so that provides balance.
method_rap on
1)the hundred years war on Palestine by Rashid khalidi.
2) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe.
3) All that remains by Walid Khalidi. (This is considered by some the best and most detailed account of the Nakba)
These are considered essential reading if you want to understand the beginning of the conflict and mostly the Nakba.
Other notable books.
4) The question of Palestine by Edward Said.
5) My Promised Land by Ari Shavit; An easy read and as being from a Muslim country, I always wanted to hear a secular Israeli perspective of the conflict and how they see things and what they see as a final solution. This one’s not a historian’s account like the rest.
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Just posting because I want to check back on any suggestions
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Also l will say that you should read books from both sides but every author is definitely going to be biased one way or another. If the goal is to sit on the fence and find a cozy middle ground you will just get more confused. This is a textbook case of settler colonialism and apartheid; either you support it or you oppose it.
There are so many, and I’m on the same quest. You may not always be able to find that ‘independent, neutral’ voice you want – I haven’t found one yet – but I’m reading Raja Shehadeh’s Language of War, Language of Peace.
He writes extensively on this subject, from a Palestinian angle, but he is an ardent pacifist who wants to see the conflict resolved.
I am also reading some books by Israeli former PM, Ehud Barak, so that provides balance.
1)the hundred years war on Palestine by Rashid khalidi.
2) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe.
3) All that remains by Walid Khalidi. (This is considered by some the best and most detailed account of the Nakba)
These are considered essential reading if you want to understand the beginning of the conflict and mostly the Nakba.
Other notable books.
4) The question of Palestine by Edward Said.
5) My Promised Land by Ari Shavit; An easy read and as being from a Muslim country, I always wanted to hear a secular Israeli perspective of the conflict and how they see things and what they see as a final solution. This one’s not a historian’s account like the rest.