Suggested Reading
This is a selection of books, found in the appendix of When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and Israel, that we have found valuable in understanding both the tensions between Israelis and Palestinians and a variety of nonviolent approaches to resolving this conflict and others. That we found a book useful does not necessary mean that we agree with all or even most of what it says, but rather that we believe it expresses a perspective that needs to be heard and considered. The categories into which we have placed these books are imprecise. Many works could fit easily in more than one place (e.g., Israeli and Palestinian peacemaking efforts, Palestinian citizens of Israel) so we encourage you to look through the entire list if you are interested in a particular topic.
Nonviolence/Peacemaking/Negotiations
Ackerman, Peter, and Christopher Krueger. Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994.
American Friends Service Committee. Search for Peace in the Middle East. New York: Fawcett Publications, 1970.
Bar-On, Mordechai. In Pursuit of Peace: A History of the Israeli Peace Movement. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace, 1996.
Bing, Anthony. Israeli Pacifist: The Life of Joseph Abileah. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990.
Bondurant, Joan V. Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958.
Burge, Gary. Who are God's People in the Middle East? Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1993.
Cobban, Helena. The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss our Global Future. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000.
Easwaran, Eknath. Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, A Man to Match His Mountains, 2d ed. Tomales, Calif.: Nilgiri Press, 1999.
Enderlin, Charles. Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002. Translated by Susan Fairfield. New York: Other Press, 2003.
Fisk, Larry and John Schellenberg, eds. Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2000.
Galtung, Johan. Nonviolence and Israel/Palestine. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Institute for Peace, 1989.
Gandhi, M. K. Non-Violent Resistance. New York: Schocken Books, 1951.
Gish, Arthur G. Hebron Journal: Stories of Nonviolent Peacemaking. Scottdale, Penn. and Waterloo, Ont.: Herald Press, 2001.
Gregg, Richard B. The Power of Nonviolence, 2d ed. New York: Schocken Books, 1935; reprint, Nyack, NY: Fellowship Publications, 1959.
Hedges, Chris. War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. New York: PublicAffairs/Perseus Books, 2003.
Herr, Robert, and Judy Zimmerman Herr, eds. Transforming Violence: Linking Local and Global Peacemaking. Scottdale, Penn. and Waterloo, Ontario: Herald Press, 1998.
Holmes, Robert, ed. Nonviolence in Theory and Practice. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1990.
International Crisis Group. Middle East EndGame I: Getting to a Comprehensive Arab-Israeli Peace Settlement. Amman, Washington, and Brussels: ICG, 2002.
International Crisis Group. Middle East Endgame II: How a Comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian Peace Would Look. Amman, Washington, and Brussels: ICG, 2002.
Kaminer, Reuven. The Politics of Protest: The Israeli Peace Movement and the Palestinian Intifada. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 1995.
Lampen, John, ed. No Alternative? Nonviolent Responses to Repressive Regimes. York, UK: William Sessions, 2000.
Lederach, John Paul. Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1997.
Lederach, John Paul. The Journey Toward Reconciliation. Scottdale, Penn. and Waterloo, Ont.: Herald Press, 1999.
Lerner, Michael. Healing Israel/Palestine: A Path to Peace and Reconciliation. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, 2003.
MacQueen, Graeme, ed. Unarmed Forces: Nonviolent Action in Central America and the Middle East. Toronto: Science for Peace/Samuel Stevens, 1992.
Merton, Thomas. The Nonviolent Alternative. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1970.
Mendelsohn, Everett. A Compassionate Peace: A Future for Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East, rev. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982, 1989.
Niyonzima, David, and Lon Fendall. Unlocking Horns: Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Burundi. Newberg, Org.: Barclay Press, 2001.
Nunn, Maxine. Creative Resistance: Anecdotes of Nonviolent Action by Israeli-Based Groups. Jerusalem: Alternative Information Center, 1993.
Rantisi, Audeh, with Ralph Beebe. Blessed are the Peacemakers: A Palestinian Christian in the Occupied West Bank. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Books, 1990.
Reinhart, Tanya. Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002.
Ruether, Rosemary Radford, and Marc Ellis, eds. Beyond Occupation: American Jewish, Christian, and Palestinian Voices for Peace. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
Saunders, Harold H. The Other Walls: The Arab-Israeli Peace Process in a Global Perspective, rev. ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Savir, Uri. The Process: 1,100 Days That Changed the Middle East. New York: Random House, 1998.
Solomonow, Allan, ed. Roots of Jewish Nonviolence. Nyack, NY: Jewish Peace Fellowship/Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1985.
Wagner, Don. Anxious for Armageddon: A Call to Partnership for Middle Eastern and Western Christians. Scottdale, Penn. and Waterloo, Ont: Herald Press, 1995.
Wallach, John and Janet Wallach, Still Small Voices. New York: Citadel Press, 1990.
Whitlock, Katherine. In a Time of Broken Bones: A Call to Dialogue on Hate Violence and the Limitations of Hate Crimes Legislation. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 2001.
Wink, Walter. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.
Wink, Walter, ed. Peace is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2000.
Woolman, John. The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, edited by Phillips P. Moulton. Richmond, Ind.: Friends United Press, 1971.
Israeli-Palestinian Relations
Abdo, Nahla, and Ronit Lentin, eds. Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002.
Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1996; reprint, New York: Ballantine Books, 1997.
Beinin, Joel, and Lisa Hajjar. Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer. Washington, D.C.: Middle East Research and Information Project, 2001.
B'Tselem. A Policy of Discrimination: Land Expropriation, Planning, and Building in East Jerusalem. Jerusalem: B'Tselem, 1995.
Benvenisti, Meron. Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948. Translated by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Chapman, Colin. Whose Promised Land? 2d ed. Batavia, Ill: Lion, 1992.
Cheshin, Amir, Bill Hutman, and Avi Melamed. Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Dumper, Michael. The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Eliav, Arie Lova. Land of the Heart: Israelis, Arabs, the Territories, and a Vision of the Future. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1974.
Fernea, Elizabeth and Evelyn Hocking, eds. Israelis and Palestinians: The Struggle for Peace. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.
Gerner, Deborah J. One Land, Two Peoples: The Conflict over Palestine, 2d ed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994.
Gerner, Deborah J., and Jillian Schwedler, eds. Understanding the Contemporary Middle East, 2d ed. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2004.
Hirst, David. The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East, 2d ed. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003.
Hourani, Albert. A History of Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Human Rights Watch. Second Class: Discrimination against Palestinian Arab Children in Israel's Schools. New York: Human Rights Watch, 2001.
Israeli, Raphael. Jerusalem Divided: The Armistice Regime 1947-1967. London: Frank Cass, 2002.
The Jaffee Center Study Group. The West Bank and Gaza: Israel's Options for Peace. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1989.
The Jaffee Center Study Group. Israel, the West Bank and Gaza: Toward a Solution. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 1989.
Laqueur, Walter, and Barry Rubin, eds. The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict, 6th ed. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
Lesch, Ann M., and Dan Tschirgi. Origins and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999. New York: Knopf, 1999.
Pappé, Ilan. The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951. New York: I. B. Tauris, 1992.
Pappé, Ilan, ed. The Israel/Palestine Question. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Reich, Bernard, ed. Arab-Israeli Conflict and Conciliation: A Documentary History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Romann, Michael, and Alex Weingrod. Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Ruether, Rosemary Radford, and Herman J. The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. New York: HarperCollins, 1985; 2d ed. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2002.
Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine. New York: Vintage, 1980.
Said, Edward. The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After. New York: Pantheon, 2000.
Sharoni, Simona. Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women's Resistance. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
Tessler, Mark. 1994. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Ucko, Hans. The Spiritual Significance of Jerusalem for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1994.
Wasserstein, Bernard. Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City. New York: Yale Nota Bene, 2002.
Israel/Jewish Israelis/Judaism
Asher, Arian. The Second Republic: Politics in Israel. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, 1997.
Avishai, Bernard. The Tragedy of Zionism: Revolution and Democracy in the Land of Israel. New York: Farrar, Strauss Giroux. 1985.
Beilin, Yossi. Israel: A Concise Political History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Beit-Hallahmi, Benyamin. Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel. Concord, Mass.: Pluto Press, 1992; reprint, New York: Olive Branch Press, 1993.
Carey, Roane, and Jonathan Shainin. The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent. New York: The New Press, 2002.
Ellis, Marc. Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation: The Uprising and the Future, 2d ed. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989.
Ellis, Marc. Israel and Palestine Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-First Century. London: Pluto Press, 2002.
Evron, Boas. Jewish State or Israeli Nation? Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Flapan, Simha. The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities. New York: Pantheon, 1987.
Friedman, Robert. Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel's West Bank Settlement Movement. New York: Random House, 1992.
Grossman, David. Death as a Way of Life: Israel Ten Years After Oslo. Translated by Haim Watzman. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003.
Hazony, Yoram. The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Horovitz, David. A Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel. New York: A. A. Knopf, 2000.
Kushner, Tony, and Alisa Solomon, eds. Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. New York: Grove Publishing, 2003.
Lustick, Ian. For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988.
March, W. Eugene. Israel and the Politics of Land: A Theological Case Study. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press 1994.
Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of 'Transfer' in Zionist Political Thought, 1982-1948. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
Oz, Amos. In the Land of Israel. Translated by Maurie Goldberg-Bartura. London: Hogarth Press, 1983; reprint, New York: Vintage Books, 1984.
Sacher, Howard M. A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, 2d ed., New York: Knopf, 1996.
Sacher, Howard M. ed. The Rise of Israel: A Documentary Record from the Nineteenth Century to 1948. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987.
Schiff, Ze'ev, and Ehud Ya'ari. Israel's Lebanon War. Translated by Ina Friedman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
Segev, Tom. 1949: The First Israelis. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Shimoni, Gideon. The Zionist Ideology. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1995.
Shindler, Colin. The Land Beyond Promise: Israel, Likud, and the Zionist Dream. London: I. B. Tauris, 2002.
Sternhell, Zeev. The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State. Translated by David Maisel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Stone, I. F. Underground to Palestine and Reflections Thirty Years Later. London: Hutchison of London, 1978.
Torstrick, Rebecca L. The Limits of Coexistence: Identity Politics in Israel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Vital, David. Zionism: The Origins of Zionism. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Vital, David. Zionism: The Formative Years. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Palestine/Palestinians
Abu-Amr, Ziad. Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, ed. The Transformation of Palestine. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1971; reprint, 1987.
Aruri, Naseer, ed. Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return. London: Pluto Press, 2001.
Ashrawi, Hanan. This Side of Peace: A Personal Account. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Ateek, Naim. Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989.
Ateek, Naim, and Michael Prior, eds. Holy Land, Hollow Justice: God, Justice, and the Palestinians. London: Melisende, 1999.
Barghouti, Mourid. I Saw Ramallah. Translated by Ahdaf Soueif. New York: Anchor Books, 2003.
Brynen, Rex. A Very Political Economy: Peacebuilding and Foreign Aid in the West Bank and Gaza. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace, 2000.
Chacour, Elias. Blood Brothers. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Chosen, 1984.
Chacour, Elias. We Belong to the Land. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1990.
Cobban, Helena. The Palestinian Liberation Organization: People, Power, and Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Cragg, Kenneth. The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster, 1991.
Farsoun, Samih K., with Christina E. Zacharia. Palestine and the Palestinians. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997.
Ghanem, As'ad. The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Gorkin, Michael. Days of Honey, Days of Onion: The Story of a Palestinian Family in Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege, Translated by Elana Wesley and Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.
Hass, Amira. Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land. Translated by Rachel Leah Jones. Los Angeles: Semiotexte, 2003.
Hiltermann, Joost R. Behind The Intifada: Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Jabbour, Hala Deeb. A Woman of Nazareth. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1988.
Lynd, Staughton, Sam Bahour, and Alice Lynd, eds. Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1994.
Kanafani, Ghassan. Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories. Translated by Barbara Harlow and Karen E. Riley. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.
Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Kimmerling, Baruch, and Joel S. Migdal. The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Mattar, Philip, ed. Encyclopedia of the Palestinians.New York: Facts on File, 2000.
Pearlman, Wendy. Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003.
Raheb, Mitri. I am a Palestinian Christian. Translated by Ruth C. L. Gritsch. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
Rigby, Andrew. Living the Intifada. London: Zed Books, 1991.
Robinson, Glenn E. Building a Palestinian State: The Incomplete Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Rouhana, Nadim N. Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.
Rubenberg, Cheryl A. The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2003.
Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal. Hizbu'llah: Politics and Religion. London: Pluto Press, 2002.
Sayigh, Rosemary. Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon. London: Zed Press, 1994.
Sayigh, Yezid. Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1997.
Sennott, Charles M. The Body and the Blood: The Middle East's Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace. New York: PublicAffairs/Perseus Books, 2003.
Usher, Graham. Palestine in Crisis: The Struggle for Peace and Political Independence after Oslo. Chicago: Pluto Press, 1995.
U.S. Policy Toward the Conflict
Aruri, Nasser H. The Obstruction of Peace: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press, 1995.
Aruri, Naseer H. Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine. Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2003.
Chomsky, Noam. The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Boston. South End Press, 1983.
Christison, Kathleen. Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Findley, Paul. Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the U.S.-Israeli Relationship. New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1995.
Lesch, David W., ed. The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996.
Neff, Donald. Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995.
Quandt, William B. Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Rubenberg, Cheryl. Israel in American National Interest: A Critical Examination. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Schoenbaum, David. The United States and the State of Israel. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Slonim, Shlomo. Jerusalem in America's Foreign Policy, 1947-1997. London: Kluwer Law International, 1998.
Spiegel, Steven L. The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Suleiman, Michael W., ed. U.S. Policy on Palestine from Wilson to Clinton. Normal, Ill.: Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc., 1995.
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