NOTES ON SOURCES
Causes of the Conflict (pages 49)
.
.
.
The Founding of Israel (pages 1015)
.
.
.
. Yoav Gelber, Propaganda as History. What Happened at Deir Yassin? (Sussex Academic Press, 2006).
. Yoav Gelber, Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Sussex Academic Press, 2001), 311.
.
.
. Ahron Bregman, Israels Wars: A History Since 1947 (London: Routledge, 2002), 24.
.
The Suez Crisis (pages 1621)
.
.
. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 577.
.
. Martin Gilbert, The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 7th ed. (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), 47.
. Ala Abu Dheer, Liam Morgan (ed.), and Alison Morris (ed.), Nakba Eyewitnesses: Narrations of the Palestinian 1948 Catastrophe (Palestine Media Unit [Zajel], 2007), 21104.
. Ibid, 76.
. World: Nassers Legacy: Hope and Instability, Time, Oct. 12, 1970.
The Six-Day War and the Rise of the PLO (pages 2229)
.
. Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel (Australia: The Globe Press, 1972), 60.
. Ibid.
. Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars (London: Greenhill Books, 1982; updated ed., 2004), 154.
. Ibid, 152.
. El Gamasy, The October War: Memoirs of Field Marshal El-Gamasy of Egypt (The American University in Cairo Press, 1993), 79.
. Herzog, 165.
. A. J. Barker, Arab-Israeli Wars (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1981).
. Kenneth M. Pollack, Air Power in the Six-Day War, The Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 28, no. 3 (June 2005), 474.
. Nadav Safran, Israel: The Embattled Ally (Belknap Press, 1981), 24243.
Israel/Operation-Focus.
.
.
.
. Ibid.
. Herzog, 1982, 186.
.
The Yom Kippur War (pages 3037)
.
. Ibid.
. Herzog, 289.
.
.
Operations in Lebanon (pages 3845)
.
.
.
.
. Herzog, 357.
. Samuel Katz and Lee E. Russell, Armies in Lebanon 198284, Osprey Men-At- Arms series, no. 165 (1985).
. Jacobo Timerman (trans. from the Spanish by Miguel Acoca), The Longest War: Israel in Lebanon (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1982), 14243.
. Katz and Russell, 1985.
.
The First Intifada (pages 4649)
.
.
.
. Thomas M. Ricks, In Their Own Voices: Palestinian High School Girls and Their Memories of the Intifadas and Nonviolent Resistance to Israeli Occupation, 1987 to 2004, NWSA Journal, vol. 18, no. 3 (Fall 2006), 93.
Moves Toward Peace (pages 5055)
.
.
.
The Second Intifada (pages 5659)
. Herzog, 429.
.
.
.
.
.
The Conflict Continues (pages 6065)
.
.
.
.
FIND OUT MORE
BOOKS
Abbott, David. Secret History: Conflict in the Middle East. North Mankato, Minn.:Arcturus, 2011.
Mason, Paul. Global Hotspots: Israel and Palestine. Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall CavendishBenchmark, 2009.
Robson, David. World History: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Detroit: Lucent, 2010.
Scott-Baumann, Michael. Access to History: Crisis in the Middle East: Israel andthe Arab States 19452007. London: Hodder Education, 2009.
Senker, Cath. Timelines: The Arab-Israeli Conflict. North Mankato, Minn.: Arcturus,2008.
Worth, Richard. Open for Debate: The Arab-Israeli Conflict. New York: Marshall CavendishBenchmark, 2007.
DOCUMENTARIES
Blood and Tears: The Arab-Israeli Conflict (ThinkFilm, 2007)
A documentary about the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
WEBSITES
www.btselem.org
BTselem is an Israeli human rights organization. The site containsinformation and statistics about the conflict.
www.fmep.org
Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) is an organization that promotes peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The site containsa wealth of information, maps, and statistics.
http://israelipalestinian.procon.org
This is a non-partisan website that looks at views from both sides ofthe conflict.
www.mideastweb.org
MidEastWeb is a non-governmental organization in Israel that aims to promote dialogue between Arabs, Jews, and others. The site offers a clear overview of the history of the conflict.
www.mfa.gov.il/MFA
The official website of the Israeli government offers facts about Israel,its history, and the peace process.
OTHER TOPICS TO RESEARCH
The following topics were touched on briefly in this book. If you would like to studythem in more detail, here are some websites you can look at. Be aware that some ofthese websites favor a particular side of the debate!
The history of Zionism
www.mideastweb.org/zionism.htm
www.zionismontheweb.org/zionism_history.htm (pro-Israeli website)
The Nakba
www.alnakba.org (pro-Palestinian website)
www.nakba-archive.org
The Lebanese Civil War
www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/lebanon.htm
www.onwar.com/aced/data/lima/lebanon1975.htm
The First Gulf War
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB39/
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf
The Valley of Peace initiative
www.isracast.com/article.aspx?id=756
www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/may2008/gb20080528_087810.htm
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
Barker, A. J. Arab-Israeli Wars. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1981.
Bregman, Ahron. Israels Wars: A History Since 1947. London: Routledge, 2002.
El Gamasy. The October War: Memoirs of Field Marshal El-Gamasy of Egypt. Cairo: TheAmerican University in Cairo Press, 1993.
Gawrych, George Walter. The Albatross of Decisive Victory: War and Policy betweenEgypt and Israel in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars. Oxford: Greenwood Press,2000.
Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. 7th ed. London:Routledge, 2002.
Herzog, Chaim. The Arab-Israeli Wars. Updated ed. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: GreenhillBooks, 2004.
Katz, Samuel and Lee E. Russell. Armies in Lebanon 198284 (Osprey Men-At-Arms series,no. 165). Oxford: Osprey Books, 1985.
Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Pollack, Kenneth M. Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 19481991. Lincoln, NE:University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
Safran, Nadav. Israel: The Embattled Ally. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1981.
WEBSITES
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/middle_east
www.britishforcesinpalestine.org
www.btselem.org
www.fmep.org
http://israelipalestinian.procon.org
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
www.lebanonwire.com
www.middleeastexplorer.com
www.mideastweb.org
www.mfa.gov.il/MFA
www.moia.gov.il
www.sixdaywar.org
www.zionism-israel.com
CAUSES OF THE CONFLICT (18971947)
The Arab-Israeli war has been waged for more than 60 years, making it one of thelongest conflicts in modern history. It has actually been a series of wars, brokenby periods of uneasy peace. It has also involved other forms of violent confrontation,such as street battles, rocket strikes, terrorist attacks, and assassinations. Theway the war has been fought has varied over the years, but it has always been aboutthe same thing: a struggle between two peoples for control of an area of land. Itis also a clash involving two faiths: Judaism and Islam.