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Chomsky, Noam . The Fateful Triangle
Christison, Kathleen . Perceptions of Palestine
David, Ron. Arabs and Israel for Beginners
Ennes, James Assault on the Liberty
Findley, Paul. Deliberate Deceptions.
Findley, Paul. They dare to speak out
Hadawi, Sami. Bitter Harvest
Halsell, Grace , Forcing God's Hand
Jamal, Amal . The Palestinian National Movement: Politics Of Contention, 1967-2005 (Middle East Studies)
Lowenstedt, Anthony Apartheid � Ancient, Past and Present http://gesphka.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/apartheid-2014.pdf
Masalha, Nur
Neff, Donald. Fallen Pillars
Neff, Donald Fifty Years of Israel
Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/P/Pa/Pappe_Ilan_-_The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palestine.pdf
Pedahzur, Ami & Arie Perlinger. Jewish Terrorism in Israel
Peled-Elhanan, Nurit, Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education. London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Qumsiyeh Mazin Sharing the Land of Canaan
Qumsiyeh Mazin Popular Resistance in Palestine
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Rose, John the Myths of Zionism
Sand, Sholomo The Invention of the Jewish People
Sand Shlomo The invenstion of the Land of Israel
Said. Edward The Question of Palestine
Sayigh, Yezid . Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993
Shahak, Israel, Open Secrets: Israeli Nuclear and Foreign Policies. London: Pluto Press, 1997
Shahak, Israel, Israel's Global Role: Weapons for Repression. Belmont, Massachusetts, USA: AAUG Publication, 1982
Shahak, Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Religion. London: Pluto Press, 1994 (New edition 2008).
Shahak, Israel and Mezvinsky, Norton, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel. London: Pluto Press, 1999 (New edition 2004).
Shohat, Ella Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (1989). New Edition. New York and London: I. B. Tauris, 2010
Wagner, Donald. Anxious for Armageddon
Weizmann, Eyal. Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupatio
White, Ben, Palestinians in Israel. London: Pluto Press, 2012.=
White, Ben Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy
Younis, Mona N. . Liberation and Democratization: The South African and Palestinian National Movements
In French
Israel le nouvel apartheid de Michel Bole-Richard (editions Les liens qui liberent).
Arab World Books
VIDEOS
Palestine Documentaries http://www.palestinedocs.net/
Jerusalem 1948: Yoom Ilak, Yoom Aleik http://www.arabfilm.com/item/81/
John Pilger's excellent documentary: Palestine Is Still The Issue
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/pisi.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5qWm6bOJzE
Al Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 http://www.arabfilm.com/item/2/
La Terre Parle Arabe (The Land Speaks Arabic): A film by Maryse Gargour (excellent) 2007 http://www.ru-a.org/2013/01/la-terre-parle-arabe.html
Occupation 101 http://occupation101.com and http://www.myspace.com/occupation101
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvcH8x1H_Ig
Videos by Annemarie Jacir of Philistine Films http://www.philistinefilms.org
THE IRON WALL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid
The Lab: by Yotam Feldman: A unique insight into the world of Israeli arms dealers selling weapons and experience around the world. A
Israel's Drone Dealers by Yotam Feldman People & Power investigates how Israeli drone technology - first tried and tested in Gaza - came to be used by the US and its allies in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Some of these films (and many more) are available on Palestine Online Store
http://www.palestineonlinestore.com/films/index.html
and on Arab Film Distributors http://www.arabfilm.com/cat.html?deptID=5
MUST READ ARTICLES
From Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Israeli who lost her daughter to a suicide bomber) http://www.qumsiyeh.org/nuritpeledelhanan/
From Sara Roy (Jewish professor at Harvard on Living with the Holocaust) http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/holocaust.html
From Mark Braverman, an intellectual Jew with Fellowship of Reconciliation http://www.qumsiyeh.org/answertorosenfeld/
Elaine Hagopian http://www.qumsiyeh.org/palestinianstrategy/
Virginia Tilley http://www.alternativeflags.org/tilley.html
Jeff Halper http://www.counterpunch.org/halper11072005.html and http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4269.shtml
Hillel Barak http://www.qumsiyeh.org/hillelbarakscall/
See JERUSALEM DISPOSSESSED catalogue: http://www.icahd.org/eng/images/uploaded_admin_content/books/Jerusalem_Dispossessed_Booklet.pdf
Read NOWHERE LEFT TO GO about Jahalin Bedouin forced displacement: http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=411
Watch GAZA FUEL SANCTIONS HIT CIVILIANS: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=D-j-0vE_RLQ
Watch DEIR YASSIN REMEMBERED: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=341600202419569830&hl=en
Watch IMAGINE NU'EMAN: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pj_taHsPST8
Read about Al Nu'eman: http://al-nueman.tripod.com/emain.html
Take Action about Al Nu'eman: http://al-nueman.tripod.com/ehelp.html
Read NO PLACE LIKE HOME (about home demolition) by Meir Margalit: http://www.icahd.org/eng/images/uploaded_admin_content/NoPlaceLikeHome_withCover.pdf
Read REMEMBER THESE CHILDREN http://rememberthesechildren.org/pdfs/rtc_bro_3-29-07.pdf
Read transcript of Avnery-Pappe debate on 1-state/2-state: http://toibillboard.info/Transcript_eng.htm
Watch ICAHD reconstruct a demolished home: http://current.com/items/87279851_beit_al_hadad_the_al_hadad_house
Watch ICAHD's Constructing Peace slideshow at http://icahd.org/eng/ConstructingPeace_slideshow.asp
Watch ERTAS tree uprooting by IDF http://corky.net/~eran/yossi/Ertas%20200507%20Forweb.WMV
Watch Bedouin Fighting Displacement on Al Jazeera: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WJoKCze1sFo&v3
Watch ZOCHROT (Refugees, Demolished Palestinian Villages, "Transfer" & Remembering the Nakba):
google Zochrot's webpage, the link is blacklisted by servers
Some Excellent On-Line Documentaries Showing the Truth about Palestine
Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority - Directed By Sufyan & Abdallah Omeish -2006 - Best Film I've Seen about the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict! A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other
film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never
ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the
role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict
are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and
humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuI5GP2LJAs -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNlGbjPOmCU - www.occupation101.com
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -2003- The Media Education Foundation - www.mediaed.org
Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing
in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary
exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work
in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported. -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSXFNSvInIE - www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-2tEmqM1_E
www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=117 -
Rachel Corrie - Death of An Idealist 2004 - 49 Minutes
Rachel Corrie was the 23-year-old American peace protestor who was crushed to death under the tracks of an Israeli army bulldozer last year. This film
asks what drove Rachel to become a peace activist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCzM0rcPi3c www.rachelcorriefoundation.org/rachel -
www.rachelcorrie.org
Life In Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos - By Anna Baltzer - 2009 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=3emLCYB9j8c -
Life in Occupied Palestine provides an excellent introduction, in a down-to-earth, non-alienating way to the occupation in Palestine and the
nonviolent movement for freedom and equality in the Holy Land. The video of Baltzer's award-winning presentation, including eyewitness photographs,
original maps, facts, music, and action ideas. Anna Baltzer is a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, former-Fulbright scholar, the
granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, and an award-winning lecturer, author, and activist for Palestinian human rights.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu_1l08oLac - www.annainthemiddleeast.com
Palestine Is Still The Issue - By John Pilger - 2002 -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrhJL0DRSRQ -
www.topdocumentaryfilms.com/palestine-is-still-the-issue
John Pilger first made: 'Palestine Is Still The Issue' in 1977. It told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land in 1948 and
again in 1967. Twenty five years later, John Pilger returns to the West Bank of Jordan and Gaza, and to Israel, to ask why the Palestinians, whose right
of return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo - refugees in their own land,
controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times. www.johnpilger.com - www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/pisihv.html0
This is one of the Best Interviews I have seen dealing with the Truth about Israel & Palestine. It is in two parts. I highly recommend watching or
listening to both parts. - Frank Dorrel
Part 1: Henry Siegman, Leading Voice of U.S. Jewry, on Gaza: "A Slaughter of Innocents".
www.democracynow.org/2014/7/30/henry_siegman_leading_voice_of_us - On Democracy Now with Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh - July 30th, 2014
Part 2: U.S. Jewish Leader Henry Siegman to Israel: "Stop Killing Palestinians and End the Occupation".
www.democracynow.org/2014/7/31/us_jewish_leader_henry_siegman_to - On Democracy Now with Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh - July 31st, 2014
An Honest Israeli Jew Tells the Real Truth about Israel - Miko Peled, Author of: The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
Miko Peled was born in Jerusalem into a famous and influential Israeli Zionist family. His father was a famous General in the Israeli Army, of
which Miko also served his time. When Miko's niece was killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, you may have expected the family to put Palestinians at
fault, but surprisingly they blamed the state of Israel and their violent torturing and persecution for driving people to such sadness that they would
take their own lives. Through his father's deep knowledge of the Israeli war of terror, together with his own research, Miko Peled ruins the myths
surrounding the Israel and Palestine situation, and delivers a truth so damning that many Jews and Israel supporters will not be able to bear it. He
reveals facts such as the original expelled Jews are not the ones returning, and they are not their descendants either, covers the double standards
regarding the right of return, which doesn't apply to Palestinians, and dispels the myth that there has been a conflict for ages by producing proof
that it was peaceful up until 1947 when Israel launched their illegal attacks. Miko is just one of the many modern day Jews against Zionism and
the state of Israel, and with the information he delivers in this astounding talk, it is not difficult to see why more and more Jews are rejecting
Zionism and calling for the dismantling of Israel. It is a true eye-opener for anyone who has for too long been blinded by the fake misinformation
given by the mainstream media, and the truths come straight from the heartland where he has spent many years documenting the real story.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhvIfhlh8k0 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUCJiHt5WFw
- www.thegeneralsson.com
Israel and Palestine: An Animated Introduction - Jewish Voice For Peace -www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y58njT2oXfE - www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Easy to understand, historically accurate mini- primer about why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, why the US-backed peace process has been an
impediment to peace, and what you can do to make a difference. This conflict is essentially about land and human rights, not religion and culture.
Endorsed by Palestinian, Israeli and American scholars and peace activists.
History of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict - Alison Weir, Executive Director, If Americans Knew - www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Q_8ZrYku4 -
www.ifamericansknew.org
Journalist Alison Weir is the executive director of "If Americans Knew" - a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to providing Americans with
information on topics of importance that are misreported or under-reported in the American media. In February and March of 2001 Alison left her
position as editor of Marin Scope Newspaper in Sausalito, California, to travel independently as a freelance reporter throughout Gaza and the West
Bank. Upon her return she founded If Americans Knew. She continues to research the issue intensively, her library on the issue now includes over
100 books, and she recently returned from three months traveling through the West Bank, Israel, and the Golan Heights. If Americans Knew supports
justice, truth, equal rights and respect for all human beings; and we oppose racism and discrimination of any and all forms.
Jimmy Carter Unveils Truth About Israel - Author of: PALESTINE: Peace Not Apartheid - www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvtC_qzHVM4
Former President Jimmy Carter, author of a new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, is interviewed from his home in Plains, Georgia. He responds to a
caller who asks questions concerning pressure put on the US political system and the resulting support of Israel.
Professor Ilan Pappe - Israeli Myths & Propaganda -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIWvcBzbqVc -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Papp%C3%A9
Ilan Papp�, born in 1954 is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies
at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom,
director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. Papp� was born
in Haifa , Israel . Prior to coming to the UK, he was a
senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa (1984-2007) and chair of
the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa (2000-2008). He is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
(2006), The Modern Middle East (2005), A History of Modern Palestine: One
Land, Two Peoples (2003) and Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1988).
He was also a leading member of Hadash
and was a candidate on the party list in the 1996
and 1999
Knesset
elections. Papp� is one of Israel's New Historians
who, since the release of pertinent British and Israeli government documents in the early 1980s, have
been rewriting the history of Israel's creation in 1948, and the corresponding expulsion or flight
of 700,000 Palestinians in the same
year. He has written that the expulsions were not decided on an ad hoc basis, as other historians have
argued, but constituted the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
, in accordance with Plan Dalet
, drawn up in 1947 by Israel's future leaders. He blames the creation of Israel for the lack of peace in
the Middle East, arguing that Zionism is more dangerous than Islamic militancy, and has called for an international boycott of Israeli academics
. Papp� supports the one-state solution ,
which envisages a binational state for Palestinians and Israelis. His work has been both supported and criticized by other historians. Before he left
Israel in 2008, he had been condemned in the Knesset , Israel's parliament; a minister of
education had called for him to be sacked; his photograph had appeared in a newspaper at the centre of a target; and he had received several death
threats.
"A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel's Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation
www.democracynow.org/2014/8/7/a_hideous_atrocity_noam_chomsky_on -
Democracy Now with Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez - August 7th, 2014 Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes
Israel's 29-day offensive in Gaza that killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 people injured. Chomsky has written extensively about the
Israel/Palestine conflict for decades. After Israel's Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009, Chomsky co-authored the book "Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on
Israel's War Against the Palestinians" with Israeli scholar Ilan Papp�. His other books on the Israel/Palestine conflict include "Peace in the Middle
East?: Reflections on Justice and Nationhood" and "The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians." Chomsky is a world-renowned
political dissident, linguist and author, Institute Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught for more than 50
years.
Norman Finkelstein: Israel's Disgrace in Gaza - www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMpHgw7yVk
Norman Finkelstein clarifies Israel's invasion of Gaza December 2008 was a one-sided war, disproportionate use of force, crime against humanity, a
disgrace. He relies on Goldstone Report, among others, and testimony of Israeli soldiers. At the Brecht Forum in Manhattan December 3rd, 2009.
Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist , activist
, professor and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and the politics of the Holocaust , an
interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who were Jewish Holocaust survivors. He is a graduate of Binghamton University
and received his Ph.D in Political Science
from Princeton University
. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College
, Rutgers University
, Hunter College
, New York University
, and, most recently,
DePaul University , where he was an assistant professor
from 2001 to 2007.
Phyllis Bennis - "U.S. Complicity Brought Up to Date" in Israel's War Against Gaza - The Real News - www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVNUcQ4fpB0
Phyllis Bennis says the calls in Israeli for genocide against Gaza are not only coming from fringe elements in the political establishment.
-www.ips-dc.org/authors/phyllis-bennis/ unavailable.
Ali Abunimah, Author of: "The Battle For Justice in Palestine - Nakba Day - May 15th, 2014 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=slq9jp5WM6k
Ali Abunimah, of Electronic Intifada, spoke at University of Washington Kane Hall, Nakba Day May 15th 2014. Sponsored by International Socialist
Organization, SUPER (Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights), and other student and faculty organizations. The last stop of Ali's 2014 book
tour launching his book, "The Battle For Justice in Palestine" - www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/The-Battle-for-Justice-in-Palestine -
www.electronicintifada.net
Max Blumenthal on His New Book Goliath: Life & Loathing in Greater Israel - www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLQ3U3muExE
Interviewed by Sonali Kolhatkar, Host of Uprising Radio, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles - www.maxblumenthal.com
Israeli Soldiers Told to 'Cleanse' Gaza - Channel 4 News Exclusive Exclusive: Israeli soldiers tell Channel 4 News they were ordered to
"cleanse" Palestinian neighborhoods, as filmmaker Nurit Kedar says "the atmosphere was that nobody should talk about this war".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pw8m4azLcg
Israeli Soldiers Breaking The Silence on the Occupation of Palestine - Former Israeli Paratrooper Avner Gvaryahu -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYXdoipaqnY
Former Israeli paratrooper Avner Gvaryahu, now an activist with Breaking The Silence explains to Green Left Weekly's Peter Boyle how 850 former Israeli
soldiers have given testimony about the gross injustices against the Palestinian people they have witnessed and made to participate in as part of
Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
Burning Conscience: Israeli Soldiers Speak Out - Avichai Sharon & Noam Chayut, Veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces & Members of Breaking The
Silence. A searing interview with Avichai Sharon and Noam Chayut, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces and members of Breaking the Silence. Sharon and
Chayut served during the second intifada, an on-going bloodbath that has claimed the lives of over three thousand Palestinians and nine-hundred-fifty
Israelis. After thorough introspection, these young men have chosen to speak out about their experiences as self-described "brutal occupiers of a disputed land." Producer: Sat Gwin - www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MFa7ZKQWo s
Israel Accused of War Crimes - UK Parliament - www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJWNE83j__k |