Resources

“It is difficult for westerners to understand the Arab Middle East. It is also difficult for the Arab Middle East to understand western democracy.”
Yaakov Kirschen      Creator of Dry Bones

Articles

History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict and Peace Process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_process_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Israeli-Palestinian_conflict
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/09/world/la-fg-israel-historian-qa-20121109/1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris

One State or Two States?
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/one-state-two-states-by-benny-morris/
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyFocus88.pdf

The Legality of Israeli Settlements
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/the_legality_of_israeli_settlements.html#.Ua7iVwsgISU.email
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/amb-alan-bakers-letter-to-john-kerry.html#.UoIts_lmj3g

Water

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Palestinian-lies-like-water-319582
http://missingpeace.eu/en/2013/01/swiss-graduate-in-thesis-pa-uses-water-as-a-political-weapon/
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=ewJXKcOUJlIaG&b=7712197&ct=11634347#.Uc1KwvkwrM
http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/GvirtzmanWP180112.pdf

Housing Demolitions
http://jcpa.org/article/the-ngos-demolition-of-illegal-building-in-jerusalem-and-international-law/

The Security Barrier
http://www.securityfence.mod.gov.il/pages/eng/default.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/fence.html
http://news.yahoo.com/belfast-keeping-peace-means-city-walls-005438147.html

Apartheid
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartheid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analogy
http://www.prageruniversity.com/Political-Science/A-Black-South-African-Israel-and-Apartheid.html#.UlFHOCRmj3h
http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2013/3/17/i-know-apartheid-firsthand
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/An-open-letter-to-Tutu
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2013/07/thousands-of-palarabs-visit-tel-aviv.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/PDbq+(Elder+of+Ziyon)

Terrorism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/magazine/can-we-imagine-the-life-of-a-terrorist.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Hebron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
http://www.hebron.com/english/
http://www.romirowsky.com/13482/breaking-the-silence

Refugees from 1948 Palestine
http://www.fathomjournal.org/policy-politics/the-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-an-obstacle-to-peace/

Books

Efraim Karsh
Palestine Betrayed (2011)

Benny Morris
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited  (2004)  especially the Conclusion, pp. 588 – 601

Bernard Lewis
The Multiple Identities of the Middle-East (2000)

Michael Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2003)
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present (2007)

Mark Twain
Innocents Abroad (1869)
http://ameicainpalestine.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/mark-twain-in-holy-land-1867-and.html

 

Documents

Balfour Declaration
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/balfour.asp

San Remo Conference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Remo_conference

British White Paper of 1922
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/brwh1922.asp

U.N. Resolution 181, November 29, 1947
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/res181.asp

Israel’s Declaration of Independence
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/israel.asp

The Khartoum Resolutions, September 1, 1967
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/khartoum.asp

The Palestinian National Charter
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp

The Hamas Covenant
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

 

Films

Soda Stream  –  Building Bridges, not Walls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl85AL1l0H0&sns=em
and related article:
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/sodastream-continues-upticktake-that-bdsm-advocates/2013/06/06/

Gaza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxaDmAyt84g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FePZ0y6aOos

Pierre Rehov    Middle East Documentaries (series)
http://www.pierrerehov.com/films.htm

Palestine under the British Mandate (Note the few references to the Jewish presence)
http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/6717

Christians in Bethlehem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDF71TlavFM

Fake Palestinian Casualties
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/11/fake_palestinian_victim_of_israel_attack_exposed.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USKCq44GIkQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awYMPzSrh5o
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/116997/video-shows-palestinians-faking-injuries
http://nexusnow.info/forum/showthread.php?12840-CNN-uses-fake-Palestinian-casualty-video-in-coverage
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/15/gaza-man-fakes-injuries-to-create-anti-israel-media-bias-heres-the-video-evidence/

Pat Condell

 

Maps

History of Israel and Palestine
http://www.masada2000.org/historical.html

Oslo II 1995
Administrative Division of Areas A, B and C under the Oslo II Accords 1995

Israel on Palestinian Maps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j8YI9tqTHQ

 

Websites

Stand With Us
http://www.standwithus.com/

The Israel Project
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.ewJXKcOUJlIaG/b.7711637/k.BEA8/Home.htm

Camera
http://www.camera.org/

Honest Reporting
www.honestreporting.com

Palwatch
www.palwatch.org

Elder of Ziyon
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/

Israel Ministy of Foreign Affairs (including MASHAV)
http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/Pages/default.aspx

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
http://www.cija.ca/

The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
http://jcpa.org/

U.N. Watch
http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1277549/k.D7FE/UN_Watch__Monitoring_the_UN_Promoting_Human_Rights.htm

NGO Monitor
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/

U.N.W.R.A.  (United Nations Works Relief Agency)
http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/reports-unrwa.html

 

Recent Op Eds

End the Arab Boycott of Israel
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/opinion/global/end-the-arab-boycott-of-israel.html?_r=1&
Father Nadaf
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Father-Nadaf-317867
Isaiah Nation
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Isaiah-Nation-317730?