1. Agreement on terms
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2007
   I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
2. Bertrand Russell's Last Message
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1970
   No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
3. Beyond Chutzpah
   On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   A meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
4. British Policy in Palestine
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1938
   The three principal factors in the political arena in Palestine 1in 1938 are British imperialism, the Arab nationalist movement under its present leadership and the Zionist movement.
5. Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
6. Carter's Inconvenient Truths
   An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2007
   The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
7. Chomsky.Info
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
8. Class Politics in Palestine
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1939
   Zionism is a factor that weakens the class struggle of the Jewish masses, and strengthens the reaction outside of Palestine as well as the reactionary forces in Palestine. Jewish immigration into Palestine, which is mainly an immigration of workers, strengthens, on the one side, the power and weight of the working class in the country, the power which, regarded historically, is the most extreme anti-imperialist factor and, cm the other hand, in so far as it is Zionist, it strengthens the exclusivist positions and the forces of imperialism in Palestine.
   
9. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1994
   A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
10. Counter-Rhetoric
    Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
11. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
12. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Israel historian Ilan Pappe recounts the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
13. A History of Modern Palestine
    One Land, Two Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A history of the people of Palestine.
14. Hizballah Through the Fog of War
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    An interview with Middle East specialist Augustus Richard Norton on the nature of the Lebanese-based Hezbollah group, in which he attempts to dispel some of the shibboleths that hamper Western understanding of its aims and design.
15. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argue that this support cannot be fully explained in either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America#s posture throughout the Middle East and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America#s national interest nor Israel#s long-term interest.
16. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
17. The Jewish-Arab Conflict
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1938
    The conflict between the Arab masses and Zionist aspirations can only be solved to the extent that Jewish masses in Palestine renounce Zionist exclusivism.
    
18. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
    
19. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
20. The Lion and the Gazelle
    On Jewish History
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
    
21. Married to Another Man
    Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
22. Middle East at the Crossroads
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1946
    The events of the last few weeks (1945) in the Middle East have drawn the attention of the whole world to what is happening in this region. The terroristic acts of Zionist military organizations, the strikes and demonstrations of the Arab masses in Cairo, Alexandria, Damascus, Beirut and Baghdad against Zionism, and the concentration of British troops in Palestine has aroused numerous questions whose answer will demand an uncovering of the socio-economic roots of the tangle in which this part of the world is involved.
    
23. On the Irresponsible Handling of the Palestine Question
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1947
    The American and English working class must not support the Zionist drive for a Jewish State (or what, under existing conditions means the same thing, a drive for Jewish immigration and colonisation) which, while befitting imperialism, opposes the most elementary interests equally of the Arab masses as of the Jewish.
    
24. The Other Israel
    Voices of Refusal and Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    A compilation of essays written by Israelis who oppose Israel's occupation of Palestine.
25. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
26. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
27. Perceptions of Palestine
    Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Christison shows how America's singular focus on Israel and general ignorance of the Palestinian point of view, has impeded a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
28. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
29. A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
    
30. Stop That Shit
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
31. Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
32. Terrorism in Palestine
    Are the Terrorists Anti-Imperialist?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1946
    Terrorist activity in Palestine has been revived on a larger scale than formerly, calling the attention of the entire press to the organisations of the Hagana, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Stern Gang and their activities. Socialist internationalists must answer the question: what is the character of these organisations? Are they an anti-imperialist factor in the liberatory struggles of the colonial peoples?
    
33. Truth Against Truth
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
    Challenges the myths, conventional lies, and historical falsehoods on which most of the arguments of both Israeli and Palestinian propaganda rest. The truths of both sides are intertwined into one historical narrative that does justice to both. Without this common basis, peace is impossible.
34. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state'
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
    

Experts on Middle East Politics/History in the Sources Directory

1. The Hermitage
2. League of Arab States