 | The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst
Buy new: £10.41 / Used from: £6.00 Excellent book covering the history of the Arab - Israeli conflict.
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 | The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £5.08 Detailed and well documented account of the Ethnic cleansing of Palastine during the war of 1948.
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 | The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Buy new: £9.07 / Used from: £6.50 Robert Fisks large but essential account of the Middle East - Reportage combined with History - unmissable if your serious about understanding conflict in the Middle East
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 | Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk
Buy new: £8.37 / Used from: £3.98 An astonishing book that ive read 3 times since I first read it in 1999. The best account by far of the War in Lebanon by a mile. Breath-taking achievement
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 | The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
Buy new: £9.07 / Used from: £6.49 Detailed and disturbing account of Israeli foreign policy by the Israeli historian Avi Shlaim. Well written, sourced and argued book that deserves a wide readership
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 | Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East by Jonathan Cook
Buy new: £10.96 / Used from: £8.49 Well argued account of the not insignificant part that the Israelis have played in encouraging the destabilising of Iraq and the benefits they expect to gain.
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 | Intifada: The Long Day of Rage by David Pratt
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.06 Well written book on the recent Palestinian intifada which Ariel Sharon set alight in 2000 from the Glasgow Heralds correspondent.
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 | Cry Palestine: Inside the West Bank by Said K. Aburish
Buy used from: £0.99 Prescient book written in 1991 before the situation for Palestinian society was further damaged during the so called Peace Process. Ferocity of Palestinian Intifada in 2000 will no longer suprise you.
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 | Arafat: From Defender to Dictator by Said K. Aburish
Buy used from: £0.79 Good account of Arafats sucesses & failures. The latter far outweigh the successes especially since the Oslo agreements - he undermined the Palestinians position with woeful long term consequences.
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 | Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process by Edward W. Said
Buy new: £7.93 / Used from: £1.51 Collection of essays from the early 1990s on the serious shortcomings of the Peace Process.
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 | From Oslo to Iraq and the Roadmap by Edward W. Said
Buy used from: £0.64 The late Edward Saids account of the Peace Process. The principalled objections he has made about it have been bore out by subsequent events. Well worth reading.
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 | The End of the Peace Process by Edward W. Said
Buy used from: £1.43 Detailed account of the situation for Palestinians as the Peace process dragged out in the second half of the 1990s taking the reader through to the post 911 situation. Again well worth reading
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 | The Fateful Triangle: United States, Israel and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £14.97 / Used from: £9.25 Chomsky usual detailed and principled account of the relationship between Israel, the US and the Palestinians. Excellent overview of the period since the founding of the State of Israel.
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 | Israel/Palestine: How to End the 1948 War (Seven Stories' Open Media) by Tanya Reinhart
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 The Israeli peace activist comprehensive and accessible account of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.
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 | The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003 by Tanya Reinhart
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £4.56 The follow on to the previous book, published shortly before her death, this disects the road map. The title gives you the gist of this excellent book.
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 | The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman G. Finkelstein
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.83 No nonsense and with Finkelsteins usual high regard for detail. Classic account of the leverage the Israelis have made from the holocaust. The victims are now the victimisers. Disturbing.
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 | Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair by Jonathan Cook
Buy new: £9.77 / Used from: £7.98 Cook - a worthy sucessor to Edward Saids Palestinian writings - examines the situation for Palestinians within Israel and the Occupied Territories and brings developments up to date (2008).
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 | Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman G. Finkelstein
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £8.16 Finkelsteins critical and caustic examination of the Image and Reality of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Takes apart of number of dubious books including Joan Peters From Time Immemorial - Excellent.
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 | Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East by Jeremy Bowen
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.41 Bowens account of the 1967 war is far superior to the much acclaimed book by Michael Oren which turns out to be a highly selective and partial version in accord with well loved zionist myths.
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 | The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi
Buy new: £6.63 / Used from: £5.04 A sobering and rational look at the Zionist-Palestine conflict from the point of view of the Palestinians, the choices they made and the context these choices were made in. A very thoughtful book.
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 | The Politics of Dispossession: Struggle for Palestinian Self-determination, 1969-94 by Edward W. Said
Buy used from: £5.00 Collection of Edward Saids essays concerning the Palestinian struggle from 1969-94.
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 | Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman Finkelstein
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £5.25 Finkelstein takes apart the pitiful apologetics of Alan Dershowitz (of 'The Case For Israel') without pulling any punches.
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 | Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State by Jonathan Cook
Buy new: £10.80 / Used from: £8.74 Another priceless work from Jonathan Cook exposing the reality of the supposed only Democracy in the Middle East.
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 | Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
Buy new: £12.40 / Used from: £14.23 Ground breaking work edited by E.W.Said and C.Hitchens (before his transformation). Includes essay by Norman Finkelstein taking apart Joan Peters fraudulent 'From Time Immemorial'.
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 | One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £4.99 Israeli historian Tom Segev takes a look at Palestine during the British Mandate.
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