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Israel and Gaza: Providing Context: History of the Conflict

BHA Databases

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Topic Overview
Topic Overview from Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints, an online database that explores opposing sides of the most important issues, helping learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills.

Reports and Articles

JSTOR Daily: Revisiting Yeshayahu Leibowitz
The late Israeli The late Israeli thinker spoke of the occupation’s moral cost for both sides of the conflict. A philosopher considers how his nuanced arguments hold up in 2023.
JSTOR Daily: Britain’s World Police in Mandate Palestine
As colonized peoples challenged the imperial powers after World War I, British veterans were tapped to become a ruthless police force.

BHA Library Resources

Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe
Call Number: coming soon!

ISBN: 9781786630193

Publication Date: 2017-05-02

The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.
Gaza by Norman Finkelstein
Call Number: coming soon!

ISBN: 9780520318335

Publication Date: 2021-07-27

What has befallen Gaza is a man-made humanitarian disaster. The author presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gaza's martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has justified its assaults in the name of self-defense, in fact these actions constituted flagrant violations of international law.
In Search of Israel by Michael Brenner
Call Number: coming soon!

ISBN: 9780691203973

Publication Date: 2020

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be.
A History of Zionism by Walter Laqueur
Call Number: coming soon!

ISBN: 9780805211498

Publication Date: 2003

The definitive general history of the Zionist movement, by one of the most distinguished historians of our time.