Williams, Emma.

Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010

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Klein Halevi, Yossi

Summary: "Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is one Israeli's powerful attempt to reach beyond the wall that separates Israelis and Palestinians and into the hearts of "the enemy." In a series of letters, Yossi Klein Halevi explains what motivated him to leave his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to participate in the drama of the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he is committed to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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Summary: When the residents of Budrus learn that the Israeli army plans to build the Separation Barrier through their town, cutting them off from neighboring Palestinian villages and uprooting their precious olive groves, they decide to organize. Under the leadership of Ayed Morrar, Palestinian men of all political factions come together to wage an unarmed struggle to preserve their lands. Victory seems...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2011

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Carter, Jimmy

Summary: Believing the lack of permanent Middle Eastern peace is a persistent threat to global peace, President Carter suggests two stumbling blocks to lasting harmony in this region. One is Israel refuses to honor previous peace commitments. Secondly, Arab countries refuse to acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a nation. Carter places the lion's share of the blame for this impasse on Israel and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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Miller, Aaron David.

Summary: For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with for more than half a century. Why has the world's greatest superpower failed to broker, or...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008

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Carter, Jimmy

Summary: President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in Middle East affairs since leaving the White House. He has stayed in touch with the major players from all sides in the conflict and has made numerous trips to the Holy Land, most recently as an observer in the Palestinian elections of 2005 and 2006. In this book President Carter shares...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006

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Goodman, Hirsh.

Summary: Examines the status of the Israeli nation in the world today, maintaining that its own internal political and social problems combined with its involvement in the West Bank and Gaza have only complicated its long-term struggle for survival.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011

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La Guardia, Anton.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002

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Thrall, Nathan

Summary: "Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023

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Lerner, Michael

Summary: "Embracing Israel/Palestine presents Rabbi Michael Lerner's continuing attempt to explain the current struggles between Israel and Palestine in a way that is sympathetic to both sides and provides a strategy to building a lasting peace based on acceptance, generosity, and open-hearted reconciliation"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tikkun Books ; North Atlantic Books 2011

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Summary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005

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Danon, Danny.

Summary: Outlines a plan for Israel's future, arguing against any acquiescence to U.S. foreign policy and discussing such topics as the "two state/one state" stalemate, nationalism, and the potential for severing the bond between Israel and the United States.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012

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O'Malley, Padraig

Summary: Arguing that a two-state solution is no longer a viable path to lasting peace, a controversial assessment of the Israeli-Palestine conflict addresses key issues while outlining a framework for action.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015

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Morris, Benny

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999

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Gordis, Daniel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002

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Abunimah, Ali.

Summary: "Efforts to achieve a "two-state solution" have finally collapsed; the struggle for justice in Palestine is at a crossroads. As Israel and its advocates lurch toward greater extremism, many ask where the struggle is headed. This book offers a clear analysis of this crossroads moment and looks forward with urgency down the path to a more hopeful future. Ali Abunimah is the author of One Country:...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2014

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Hazan, Éric.

Contents: Foreword / Rashid Khalidi -- Preface -- Nablus -- Qalqilya -- Hebron -- Afterword -- Epilogue / Michel Warschawski.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2007

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Makdisi, Saree.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008

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Grossman, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003

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Ross, Dennis.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004

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Tamimi, Ahed

Summary: "What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022

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Summary: Set during the Intifada that began in 2000, the film follows the lives of four Palestinian families living in the Duhayshah Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004

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Amiry, Suad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005

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