Timeline
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict TimelineExplore the history and important events behind the long-standing Middle East conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians from 1947 to today. From the Council on Foreign Relations.
Resources
The Accidental Empire by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2007Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive interviews, Gorenberg calls into question much of what we think we know about this issue that continues to haunt the Middle East.
Failing peace Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2006The book focuses on the Gaza Strip, an area that remains consistently neglected and misunderstood despite its political centrality. Drawing on more than two thousand interviews and extensive firsthand experience, Sara Roy chronicles the impact of Israeli occupation in Palestine over nearly a generation.
Blind spot : America and the Palestinians from Balfour to Trump by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2019The book traces the evolution of American-Palestinian relations from the origins of the Israel/Palestine conflict in the early twentieth century through the Obama period in order to explain why those relations have never developed into a real bilateral relationship and what impact this has had on the U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace process. The book is unique in that it looks at both sides of the American-Palestinian relationship. The focus is not just on how American policymakers view the Palestinians, but on how Palestinian decision makers view the role of the United States as chief sponsor of the peace process.
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2002Michael B. Oren's Six Days of War is the most comprehensive history ever published of this dramatic and pivotal event, the first to explore it both as a military struggle and as a critical episode in the global Cold War. Oren spotlights all the participants--Arab, Israeli, Soviet, and American--telling the story of how the war broke out and of the shocking ways it unfolded.
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017 by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2020A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.
Six Days in June: The War that Redefined the Middle East by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2007Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism and reprisal. The Six Day War forever changed the politics of the Middle East by helping to destroy the secular basis of Pan-Arab nationalism and transform secular Zionism. It gave rise to a Palestinian nationalist movement and helped unleash the fury of fundamentalism. Shot on location in Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Moscow and Washington, this powerful film takes us through the weeks that preceded the war, its six days of fighting and its aftermath that still lingers today.
The Gatekeepers by Call Number: Click Title to Check AvailabilityPublication Date: 2013Documentary Directed by Dror Moreh. Charged with overseeing Israel’s war on terror-both Palestinian and Jewish- the head of the Shin Bet, Israel’s Secret Service is present at the crossroads of every decision made. For the first time ever six former heads of the agency agreed to share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. The Gatekeepers offers an exclusive account of the sum of their successes and failures. It validates the reasons that each man individually and the six as a group came to reconsider their hard-line positions and advocate a conciliatory approach toward their enemies based on a two-state solution.
- War in the Holy Land: A PBS News Special Report
Join Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz for a special covering the devastating week of violence in Israel and Gaza, featuring reports from special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen, as well as analysis on the history of the conflict, a look at the Palestinian militant group Hamas and exploration of the wider conflict in the region.
- Lessons for Israel from the U.S. invasion of IraqFrom WBUR with guests Thomas Warrick, Barak Greenapple, and Hiba Husseini.