Annotated Book Lists: Israel-Palestine

Books that I have book pages on with more/less extensive notes and/or quotes:

  • Bernard Avishai: The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last (2008, Houghton Mifflin): [link]
  • Yossi Beilin: The Path to Geneva: The Quest for a Permanent Solution, 1996-2003 (2004, RDV Books): [link]
  • Kai Bird: Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 (2010, Scribners): [link]
  • James Carroll: Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World (2011, Houghton Mifflin): [link]
  • Jimmy Carter: Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (2006, Simon & Schuster): [link]
  • Jimmy Carter: We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work (2009, Simon & Schuster): [link]
  • Noam Chomsky/Gilbert Achcar: Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy (2006, Paradigm): [link]
  • Hillel Cohen: Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration With Zionism, 1917-1948 (2008, University of California Press): [link]
  • Rich Cohen: Israel Is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History (2009, Farrar Straus Giroux): [link]
  • Juan Cole: Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East (2007, Palgrave Macmillan): [link]
  • Juan Cole: Engaging the Muslim World (2009; paperback, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan): more focused on Iraq and Iran, Lebanon and Egypt, but the spectre of Israel haunts the region. [link]
  • Robert Fisk: Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon (1990; paperback, 2002, Nation Books): [link]
  • Gershom Gorenberg: The Unmaking of Israel (2011, Harper): [link]
  • Rashid Khalidi: Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East (2009, Beacon Press): [link]
  • Baruch Kimmerling: Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians (2003, Verso): [link]
  • Paul Kriwaczek: Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation (2005, Knopf; paperback, 2006, Vintage Books): not on Israel, but on the East European world most of the founders of Israel fled from. [link]
  • James Mann: Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (paperback, 2004, Penguin): [link]
  • Arno J Mayer: Plowshares Into Swords: From Zionism to Israel (2008, Verso): [link]
  • Aaron David Miller: The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (2008, Bantam): [link]
  • Trita Parsi: Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States (2007, Yale University Press): [link]
  • Tanya Reinhart: Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (2002; paperback, 2005, Seven Stories Press): [link]
  • Tanya Reinhart: The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003 (paperback, 2006, Verso): [link]
  • Scott Ritter: Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change (2006, Nation Books): most of which involves Israeli lobbying; Ritter identifies Amos Gilad as a prime mover. [link]
  • Dennis Ross: The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace (2004, Farrar Straus and Giroux): [link]
  • Shlomo Sand: The Invention of the Jewish People (2009, Verso): [link]
  • Tom Segev: |1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East (2007, Metropolitan): [link]
  • Raja Shehadeh: Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine (paperback, 2003, Penguin Books): [link]
  • Martin Van Creveld: The Changing Face of War: Lessons of Combat, From the Marne to Iraq (2007, Presidio Press): prominent Israeli military historian/theoretician; covers a broad swath of war, not much directly on Israel, but it lurks in the background, e.g. as he praises Assad's efficient suppression of Hama, or argues that nuclear weapons are a stabilizing force. [link]
  • Geoffrey Wawro: Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East (2010, Penguin Press): [link]
  • Idith Zertal: Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood (2005, Cambridge University Press): [link]

Books that I have stub pages for and/or own and/or have read:

  • Gilbert Achcar: The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010, Metropolitan Books)
  • Tariq Ali: The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002, Verso)
  • Bernard Avishai: The Tragedy of Zionism: How Its Revolutionary Past Haunts Israeli Democracy (1985; paperback, 2002, Alworth Press)
  • Anna Baltzer: Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories (paperback, 2007, Paradigm)
  • Phyllis Bennis: Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer (paperback, 2012, Olive Branch Press)
  • Ian Black/Benny Morris: Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services (1991; paperback, 1992, Grove Press)
  • Avraham Burg: The Holocaust Is Over We Must Rise From Its Ashes (2008; paperback, 2009, Palgrave MacMillan)
  • Roane Carey, ed: The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid (paperback, 2001, Verso)
  • Roane Carey/Jonathan Shanin, eds: The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (paperback, 2004, New Press)
  • Noam Chomsky: Middle East Illusions: Reflections on Justice and Nationhood (paperback, 2004, Rowman & Littlefield)
  • Kathleen Christison: Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on US Middle East Policy (paperback, 2001, University of California Press)
  • Richard Ben Cramer: How Israel Lost: The Four Questions (2004, Simon & Schuster)
  • Charles Enderlin: Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002 (2003, Other Press)
  • Norman G Finkelstein: Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (2nd ed, paperback, 2003, WW Norton)
  • Norman G Finkelstein: The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (paperback, 2003, Verso)
  • Norman G Finkelstein: Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (2005, University of California Press)
  • Robert Fisk: The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (2005, Knopf; paperback, 2007, Vintage Books)
  • David Fromkin: A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989, Henry Holt; paperback, 2001, Owl Books)
  • Martin Gilbert: The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (10th edition, paperback, 2012, Routledge)
  • Martin Goodman: Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations (2007, Knopf; paperback, 2008, Vintage)
  • Dilip Hiro: The Essential Middle East: A Comprehensive Guide (second edition, paperback, 2003, Carroll & Graf)
  • Robert D Kaplan: The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite (1993; paperback, 1995, Free Press): not on Israel, except in that Israel's ability to put its interests ahead of its neighbors depended on discrediting anyone in the US government who knew anything about the Arab world.
  • Robert D Kaplan: Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (2000, Random House; paperback, 2001, Vintage): includes a stop in Israel and a prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
  • Rashid Khalidi: The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006; paperback, 2007, Beacon Press)
  • Baruch Kimmerling/Joel S Migdal: The Palestinian People: A History (paperback, 2003, Harvard University Press)
  • Joel Kovel: Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine (paperback, 2007, Pluto Press)
  • Tony Kushner/Alisa Solomon: Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (paperback, 2003, Grove Press)
  • Saree Makdisi: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2008; paperback, 2010, WW Norton)
  • John J Mearsheimer/Stephen M Walt: The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (2007, Farrar Straus and Giroux)
  • Karl E Meyer/Shareen Blair Brysac: Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East (2008; paperback, 2009, WW Norton)
  • Benny Morris: Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999 (paperback, 2001, Vintage Books)
  • Michael Neumann: The Case Against Israel (paperback, 2005, Counterpunch)
  • Adi Ophir/Michal Givoni/Sari Hanafi, eds: The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2009, Zone Books)
  • Amos Oz: Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays (paperback, 1995, Harvest Books)
  • Ilan Pappé: A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (paperback, 2006, Cambridge University Press)
  • Ilan Pappé: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006; paperback, 2007, One World)
  • Mazin Qumsiyeh: Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle (paperback, 2004, Pluto Press)
  • Maxime Rodinson: Israel and the Arabs (1969, Pantheon)
  • Eugene L Rogan/Avi Shlaim, eds: The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (paperback, 2007, Cambridge University Press)
  • John Rose: The Myths of Zionism (paperback, 2004, Pluto Press)
  • Joe Sacco: Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel (paperback, 2010, Metropolitan Books)
  • Edward W Said: The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After (2000, Pantheon; paperback, 2001, Vintage)
  • Edward W Said: From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays (paperback, 2005, Vintage)
  • Rafi Segal/David Tartakover/Eyal Weizman: A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (2003, Verso)
  • Tom Segev: 1949: The First Israelis (paperback, 1998, Owl Books)
  • Tom Segev: The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust (paperback, 2000, Owl Books)
  • Tom Segev: One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate (paperback, 2001, Owl Books)
  • Tom Segev: Elvis in Jerusalem: Post Zionism and the Americanization of Israel (2nd edition, paperback, 2003, Owl Books)
  • Avi Shlaim: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (paperback, 2001, WW Norton)
  • Clayton E Swisher: The Truth About Camp David: The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process (paperback, 2004, Nation Books)
  • Sandy Tolan: The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (paperback, 2007, Bloomsbury)
  • Bernard Wasserstein: Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City (paperback, 2002, Yale University Press)
  • Bernard Wasserstein: Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop? (2003, Yale University Press)
  • Eyal Weizman: Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation (2007, Verso)
  • Idith Zertal/Akiva Eldar: Lords of the Land: The War for Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 (2007; paperback, 2009, Nation Books)
  • Stephen Zunes: Tinderbox (paperback, 2002, Zed Books)

Other books of interest, mostly from my book notes:

  • Izzedin Abuelaish: I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity (2011; paperback, 2012, Walker)
  • Ali Abuminah: One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israel-Palestinian Impasse (2006, Metropolitan Books)
  • Gilbert Achcar/Michel Warschawski: The 33-Day War: Israel's War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and Its Consequences (paperback, 2007, Paradigm)
  • M Shahid Alam: Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism (paperback, 2010, Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Sami Al Jundi/Jen Marlowe: The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker (paperback, 2011, Nation Books)
  • Gannit Ankori: Palestinian Art (paperback, 2006, Reaktion Books)
  • Karen Armstrong: Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (1996, Knopf; paperback, 1997, Ballantine Books)
  • Gilad Atzmon: The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics (paperback, 2011, O Books)
  • Uri Avnery: Israel's Vicious Circle: Ten Years of Writings on Israel and Palestine (2008, Pluto Press)
  • Uri Avnery: 1948: A Soldier's Tale: The Bloody Road to Jerusalem (revised, paperback, 2009, One World)
  • René Backmann: A Wall in Palestine (paperback, 2010, Picador)
  • Omar Barghouti: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (paperback, 2011, Haymarket Books)
  • Moustafa Bayoumi, ed: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict (paperback, 2010, Haymarket)
  • Peter Beinart: The Crisis of Zionism (2012, Times Books)
  • Jeremy Ben-Ami: A New Voice for Israel: Fighting for the Survival of the Jewish Nation (2011, Palgrave Macmillan): A brief for the pro-Israel, pro-peace J Street lobby.
  • Shlomo Ben-Ami: Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy (2006; paperback, 2007, Oxford University Press)
  • Edwin Black: The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine (1999; paperback, 2009, Dialog Press): the dirt on the dealings where Nazi Germany allowed German Jews to emigrate to Palestine.
  • Kamal Boullata: Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present (paperback, 2009, Saqi Books)
  • Mark Braverman: Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land (paperback, 2010, Synergy Books)
  • Wendy Brown: Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010, Zone): on the building of walls to separate states, like the US and Mexico, or peoples, like Israelis and Palestinians.
  • Judith Butler: Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012, Columbia University Press): considers Zionism within the broader context of Jewish thought, much of it incompatible. [July 2012]
  • Caitlin Carenen: The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel (2012, New YOrk University Press)
  • Noam Chomsky: Hopes and Prospects (paperback, 2010, Haymarket Books): scattered essays, one on Israel-Palestine.
  • Noam Chomsky/Ilan Pappé: Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (paperback, 2010, Haymarket Books)
  • Kathleen Christison/Bill Christison: Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation (paperback, 2009, Pluto Press): short photo book depicting the occupation
  • Victoria Clark: Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism (2007, Yale University Press)
  • Avner Cohen: The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb (2010, Columbia University Press)
  • Hillel Cohen: Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967 (2010, University of California Press)
  • Stephen P Cohen: Beyond America's Grasp: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East (2009, Farrar Straus and Giroux)
  • Ted Conover: The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today (2010, Knopf; paperback, 2011, Vintage Books): includes a chapter on roads in the West Bank -- fast ones for Jewish settlers, checkpoints for Palestinians.
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (paperback, 2008, Pluto Press)
  • Jonathan Cook: Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair (paperback, 2008, Zed)
  • Rochelle Davis: Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced (paperback, 2010, Stanford University Press)
  • Laila El-Haddad: Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything in Between (paperback, 2010, Just World Books)
  • Marc Ellis: Judaism Does Not Equal Israel: The Rebirth of the Jewish Prophetic (2009, New Press)
  • Charles Enderlin: The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East, 2001-2006 (2007, Other Press)
  • Rosemarie M Esber: Under the Cover of War: The Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians (2008; paperback, 2009, Arabicus)
  • Norman G Finkelstein: 'This Time We Went Too Far': Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion (2010, OR Books)
  • Robert Fisk: The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays (2008, Nation Books)
  • Dan Fleshler: Transforming America's Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change (2009, Potomac Books): on and for the J Street lobby.
  • Ronald Florence, Lawrence and Aaronsohn: TE Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Viking Adult)
  • Chas W. Freeman Jr.: America's Misadventures in the Middle East (paperback, 2010, Just World Books)
  • Naeim Giladi: Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews (paperback, 2003, Dandelion)
  • Phyllis Goldstein: A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism (paperback, 2011, Facing History and Ourselves)
  • Neve Gordon: Israel's Occupation (paperback, 2008, University of California Press)
  • Gershom Gorenberg, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount (2000; paperback, 2002, Oxford University Press)
  • Gershom Gorenberg, The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 (2006, Times Books; paperback, 2007, Henry Holt)
  • Mia Gröndahl: Gaza Graffiti: Messages of Love and Politics (paperback, 2009, American University of Cairo Press)
  • Jeff Halper: An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel (paperback, 2008, Pluto Press)
  • Amos Harel/Avi Issacharoff: 34 Days: Israel, Hezbollah, and the War in Lebanon (paperback, 2009, Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Alan Hart: Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol. 1: The False Messiah (2007; paperback, 2009, Clarity Press)
  • Alan Hart: Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol. 2: David Becomes Goliath (paperback, 2009, Clarity Press)
  • Alan Hart: Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol. 3: Conflict Without End (paperback, 2010, Clarity Press)
  • Amira Hass: Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (1999, Metropolitan Books; paperback, 2000, Picador)
  • Amira Hass: Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land (paperback, 2003, Semiotext(e))
  • Arthur Hertzberg: The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader (1970, Greenwood; paperback, 1997, Jewish Publication Society)
  • Shir Hever: The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation: Repression Beyond Exploitation (paperback, 2010, Pluto Press)
  • David Hirst: The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East (1984; paperback, 2003, Nation Books)
  • David Hirst: Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East (2010; paperback, 2011, Nation Books)
  • Nathan Hodge/Sharon Weinberger: A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry (2008, Bloomsbury): includes a chapter on Israel.
  • Adam Horowitz/Lizzy Ratner/Philip Weiss, eds: The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict (paperback, 2011, Nation Books)
  • Nubar Hovsepian, ed: The War on Lebanon: A Reader (paperback, 2007, Olive Branch Press)
  • Fred Jerome: Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East (2009, St Martin's Press)
  • Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh: Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military (2008, Stanford University Press)
  • Anne Karpf/Brian Klug/Jacqueline Rose/Barbara Rosenbaum, eds.: A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity (paperback, 2008, Verso)
  • Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta: Refusing to Be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation (paperback, 2011, Ithaca Press)
  • Baruch Kimmerling: The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society, and the Military (2001; paperback, 2005, University of California Press)
  • Rashid Khalidi: Palestinian Identity: The Construction of a Modern National Consciousness (paperback, 2009, Columbia University Press)
  • Baruch Kimmerling: Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies (2008; paperback, 1010, Columbia University Press)
  • Zia Krohn/Joyce Lagerweij: Concrete Messages: Street Art on the Israeli-Palestinian Separation Barrier (2010, Dokument Press)
  • Daniel C Kurtzer/Scott B Lasensky: Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East (paperback, 2008, United States Institute of Peace Press)
  • Yitzhak Laor: Myths of Liberal Zionism (2010, Verso)
  • Walter Laquer, ed: The Israeli-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict (7th edition, paperback, 2008, Penguin)
  • Michael Lerner: Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East (paperback, 2011, North Atlantic Books)
  • Mark LeVine: Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine 1880-1948 (paperback, 2005, University of California Press)
  • Mark LeVine: Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989 (paperback, 2009, Zed)
  • Gideon Levy: The Punishment of Gaza (paperback, 2010, Verso)
  • Audrea Lim, ed: The Case for Sanctions Against Israel (paperback, 2012, Verso)
  • Wm Roger Louis/Avi Shlaim, eds: The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origin and Consequences (paperback, 2012, Cambridge University Press)
  • Loren D Lybarger, Identity & Religion in Palestine: The Struggle Between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories (2007, Princeton University Press)
  • Ussama Makdisi: Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001 (2010; paperback, 2011, Public Affairs)
  • Zeev Maoz, Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security & Foreign Policy (paperback, 2006, University of Michigan Press)
  • Amy Dockser Marcus, Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2007, Penguin)
  • Mike Marqusee: If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew (2008, Verso)
  • Mark Matthews: The Lost Years: Bush, Sharon, and Failure in the Middle East (2007, Nation Books)
  • Melani McAlister: Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East Since 1945 (2001; paperback, 2005, University of California Press): has a chapter called "The Good Fight: Israel After Vietnam, 1972-1980."
  • Paul McGeough: Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas (2009, New Press)
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore: Jerusalem: The Biography (2011, Knopf)
  • Benny Morris: 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War (2008, Yale University Press)
  • Sari Nusseibeh, Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life (2007, Farrar Straus & Giroux; paperback, 2008, Picador)
  • Sari Nusseibeh: What Is a Palestinian State Worth? (2011, Harvard University Press)
  • Michael B Oren: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2002, Oxford University Press; paperback, 2003, Presidio Press)
  • Michael B Oren: Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present (2007; paperback, 2008, WW Norton)
  • Ilan Pappé: The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1947-1951 (1992; paperback, 1994, IB Taurus)
  • Ilan Pappe: Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel (paperback, 2010, Pluto Press)
  • Ilan Pappé: The Rise & Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis 1700-1948 (2011, University of California Press)
  • Ilan Pappé: The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel (2011, Yale University Press)
  • William Parry: Against the Wall (paperback, 2011, Lawrence Hill Books)
  • Trita Parsi: A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran (2012, Yale University Press)
  • Ami Pedahzur/Arie Perliger: Jewish Terrorism in Israel (2009, Columbia University Press)
  • Miko Peled: The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (paperback, 2012, Just World Books)
  • Ilan Peleg/Dov Waxman: Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within (paperback, 2011, Cambridge University Press)
  • Mark Perry: Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage With Its Enemies (2010, Basic Books): involved in Conflicts Forum; includes chapters on Hamas, Hezbollah, and Israel.
  • James Petras: The Power of Israel in the United States (paperback, 2006, Clarity Press)
  • James Petras: Zionism, Militarism, and the Decline of US Power (paperback, 2008, Clarity Press)
  • James Petras: War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America (paperback, 2010, Clarity Press)
  • Gabriel Piterberg: The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel (paperback, 2008, Verso): relates early Zionist theory to contemporary nationalist and colonial settler movements, finding it unexceptional.
  • Sasha Polakcw-Suransky: The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship With Apartheid South Africa (2010, Pantheon)
  • William B Quandt: Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967 (1993; paperback, 2005, University of California Press)
  • Mazin B Qumsiyeh: Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment (paperback, 2011, Pluto Press)
  • Michael Riordon: Our Way to Fight: Israeli and Palestinian Activists for Peace (paperback, 2011, Lawrence Hill)
  • Maxime Rodinson: Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? (paperback, 1973, Pathfinder Press)
  • Jacqueline Rose: The Question of Zion (2005; paperback, 2007, Princeton University Press)
  • Jacqueline Rose: The Last Resistance (2007, Verso)
  • Jack Ross: Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism (2011, Potomac Books)
  • Sara Roy: Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector (2011, Princeton University Press)
  • Edward W Said: The Question of Palestine (1979, Times Books; paperback, 1992, Vintage)
  • Edward W Said: Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (1981, Pantheon Books; paperback, 1997, Vintage)
  • Edward W Said/Christopher Hitchens, eds: Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (1988; paperback, 2001, Verso)
  • Edward W Said: The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 (1994, Pantheon; paperback, 1995, Vintage)
  • Edward W Said: Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process (paperback, 1996, Vintage)
  • Shlomo Sand: The Words and the Land: Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth (paperback, 2011, Semiotext(e))
  • Shlomo Sand, ed: Ernest Renan: On the Nation and the 'Jewish People' (paperback, 2010, Verso)
  • Jonathan Schneer: The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2010, Random House)
  • James Scott: The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a US Spy Ship (2009, Simon & Schuster)
  • Rachel Shabi: We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands (paperback, 2009, Walker)
  • Gershon Shafir: Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 (1989; updated, paperback, 1996, University of California Press)
  • Raja Shehadeh: When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege (paperback, 2003, Steerforth)
  • Raja Shehadeh: Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape (paperback, 2008, Scribner)
  • Ben Shephard: The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War (2011, Knopf; paperback, 2012, Anchor): broad overview of what happened to refugees in Europe following WWII, of which the Jewish migration to Israel was one part.
  • Avi Shlaim: Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace (2008, Knopf; paperback, 2009, Vintage)
  • Avi Shlaim: Israel and Palestine: Reflections, Revisions, Refutations (2009, Verso)
  • David Shulman: Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine (2007, University of Chicago Press)
  • Stephen Sizer: Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? (paperback, 2005, IVP Academic)
  • Stephen Sizer: Zion's Christian Soldiers? The Bible, Israel and the Church (paperback, 2008, IVP Academic)
  • Charles D Smith: Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents (1988, St Martin's; paperback, 2009, Bedford/St Martin's)
  • Stephen J Sniegorski: The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel (2008, IHS Press)
  • Clayton E Swisher, ed: The Palestine Papers: The End of the Road? (paperback, 2011, Hesperus Press): explores the cache of 1,600 pages of confidential papers and memoranda Al-Jazeera had recently exposed.
  • Azzam Tamimi: Hamas: A History From Within (2007; paperback, 2011, Olive Branch Press)
  • Baylis Thomas: How Israel Was Won: A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (paperback, 1999, Lexington Books)
  • Baylis Thomas: The Dark Side of Zionism: The Quest for Security Through Dominance (2010, Lexington Books)
  • Virginia Tilley: The One State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock (2005, University of Michigan Press)
  • Fawwaz Traboulsi, A History of Modern Lebanon (paperback, 2007, Pluto Press):
  • Martin Van Creveld: Defending Israel: A Strategic Plan for Peace and Security (paperback, 2005, St Martin's Griffin)
  • Martin Van Creveld: The Culture of War (2008, Presidio Press)
  • Martin Van Creveld: The Land of Blood and Honey: The Rise of Modern Israel (2010, Thomas Dunne)
  • Martin Van Creveld: The Age of Airpower (2011, Public Affairs)
  • Michel Warschawski: Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society (paperback, 2004, Monthly Review Press)
  • Timothy P Weber: On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel's Best Friend (2004, Baker Academic)
  • Eyal Weizman: The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza (2012, Verso): [June 19]
  • Geoffrey Wheatcroft: The Controversy of Zion: Jewish Nationalism, the Jewish State, and the Unresolved Jewish Dilemma (paperback, 1997, Perseus Books)
  • Ben White: Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy (paperback, 2011, Pluto Press)
  • Philip C Winslow: Victory for Us Is to See You Suffer: In the West Bank with the Palestinians and the Israelis (2007, Beacon Press)

Other books of lesser interest, some badly dated, many mere propaganda:

  • Yehuda Avner: The Prime Ministers: An intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (2010, Toby Press)
  • Mitchell Bard: The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East (2010, Harper): An attempt to trivialize Mearsheimer/Walt's The Israel Lobby.
  • Edwin Black: The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust (paperback, 2010, Dialog Press): this is about an anti-Jewish pogrom in Baghdad in 1941, but features the famous picture of Hitler and Husseini on the cover and tries to make more of an alliance than there was; Black has made a career out of exaggerating links to Hitler, most famously in IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation.
  • Daniel Byman: A High Price: The Triumphs & Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism (2011, Oxford University Press)
  • Zev Chafets, A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance (Harper Collins)
  • David G Dalin/John F Rothmann: Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam (paperback, 2009, Transaction)
  • Alan Dershowitz: The Case for Israel (2003; paperback, 2004, Wiley): extraordinarily dishonest propaganda.
  • Alan Dershowitz: The Case Against Israel's Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace (paperback, 2009, John Wiley & Sons)
  • Alan Dershowitz: The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved (2005; paperback, 2006, Wiley)
  • Alan Dershowitz, ed: What Israel Means to Me: By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists (2006; paperback, 2007, Wiley)
  • Alan Dershowitz: The Case for Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza (paperback, 2009, CAMERA)
  • Martin Gilbert: Israel: A History (1998, William Morrow; paperback, 2008, McNally & Loftin)
  • Martin Gilbert: Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship (2007, Henry Holt; paperback, 2008, Holt):
  • George Gilder: The Israel Test (2009, Richard Vigilante)
  • Caroline B Glick: Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad (2008, Gefen Publishing House)
  • Daniel Gordis: Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End (2009, Wiley)
  • John Hagee: Beginning of the End: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Coming Antichrist (paperback, 1996, Thomas Nelson)
  • John Hagee: Final Dawn Over Jerusalem: The World's Future Hangs in the Balance with the Battle for the Holy City (1998; paperback, 1999, Thomas Nelson)
  • John Hagee: Jerusalem Countdown: A Warning to the World (2005; paperback, 2006, FrontLine)
  • John Hagee: In Defense of Israel (revised ed, paperback, 2007, FrontLine)
  • Martin Indyk: Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (2009, Simon & Schuster)
  • Gregg Jackson, Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies: Issue by Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of the Left From A to Z (paperback, 2006, JAJ Publishing): checked out the section on Israel, where the responses were utterly fact-free.
  • Efraim Karsh: Arafat's War: The Man and His Battle for Israeli Conquest (2003; paperback, 2004, Grove Press)
  • Efraim Karsh: Fabricating Israeli History: The 'New Historians' (2nd edition, paperback, 2000, Routledge)
  • Efraim Karsh: Palestine Betrayed (2010, Yale University Press)
  • Aaron Klein: The Late Great State of Israel: How Enemies Within and Without Threaten the Jewish Nation's Survival (2009, WND Books)
  • Walter Laquer: A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel (1972; paperback, 2003, Schocken)
  • Michael A Ledeen: Obama's Betrayal of Israel [Encounter Broadside No. 2] (paperback, 2009, Encounter Books)
  • Gregory Levey: Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned From the Israeli Government -- A Memoir (2008, Free Press)
  • Kenneth Levin: The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege (2005; paperback, 2006, Smith & Kraus)
  • David Meir-Levi: History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression (2007, Encounter Books)
  • Giulio Meotti: A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism (2010, Encounter Books)
  • Benny Morris: One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict (2009, Yale University Press)
  • Chuck Morse: The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler & Haj Amin Al-Husseini (paperback, 2010, WND Books)
  • Benjamin Netanyahu: A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations (1999, Grand Central)
  • Joan Peters: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine (1984, Harper Collins; paperback, 2001, JKaP)
  • Ronald Radosh/Allis Radosh: A Safe Haven: Harry S Truman and the Founding of Israel (2009, Harper)
  • Dennis Ross/David Makovsky: Myths, Illusions & Peace: Finding a New Direction in the Middle East (2009, Viking; paperback, 2010, Penguin)
  • Howard M Sachar: A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time (1976; paperback, 2007, Knopf)
  • Joel Schalit: Israel vs. Utopia (paperback, 2009, Akashic Books)
  • Dan Senor/Saul Singer: Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle (2009, Twelve)
  • Robin Shepherd: A State Beyond the Pale: Europe's Problem With Israel (2009, Orion)
  • Stephen Spector: Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism (2008, Oxford University Press)
  • Sol Stern: A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred [Encounter Broadside No. 24] (paperback, 2011, Encounter Books)
  • Ruth R Wisse: If I Am Not for Myself . . . : The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews (1992; paperback, 2001, Free Press)
  • Ruth R Wisse: Jews and Power (2007, Schocken): a celebration of Jewish power from King David to Ariel Sharon.