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Highly Recommended (articles
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- Amos
Oz (Wikipedia)
- "Israel
Under the Volcano": interview
with Jeremy Caplan (Newsweek,
March 1, 1999)
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Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth ( The NewsHour,
PBS)
- "Amos
Oz: Writing the Israeli Paradox" (U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
- David Remnick, "The
Spirit Level" (Profile in The
New Yorker, November 8, 2004)
- Amos Oz, "An
end to Israeli occupation will mean a just war" (London Observer,
April 7, 2002)
- Israel & West
Bank (Encyclopedia Britannica Online--HSU users
only)
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- NPR's Linda Gradstein reports
on the controversy over a revisionist
history curriculum in Israeli schools (RealAudio file from "All
Things Considered," November 15, 1999)
The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
- Eric Black, from Parallel
Realities (Alternatively, try Mike Shuster's NPR series, The
Mideast: A Century of Conflict. For a quick review, you
might also want to refer to PBS's nutshell History
of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, an interactive timeline
annotated with Israeli and Palestinian views on the history
of the region.)
- MERIP,
the Middle East Research and Information Project from Middle
East Report, has written a Primer
on Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Z Magazine's Mideast
Watch, an exhaustive page of articles and links devoted to
alternative coverage the region. Includes Alex
R. Shalom and Stephen R. Shalom's indispensible "Turmoil
in Palestine: The Basic Context"
- Bernard Avishai, "A Tale of Two Zionisms" (The Nation 15 October 2012) reviews Peter Beinart's controversial book, The Crisis of Zionism. See also David Remnick, "Threatened" (The New Yorker 12 March 2012)
- Edward Said, "Bombs
and Bulldozers" (The Nation 8 & 15 September 1997).
Though the occasion for which this piece was written is long past,
its complaint about what Said calls the "bulldozers of forgetfulness" is
still timely, as is its reminder that "there was always another
people in Palestine, [and] every village, kibbutz, settlement,
city and town [in Israel] has an Arab history also."
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Selected
online articles originally from The Nation's "Israel
at Fifty" issue (May 4, 1998): Danny
Rubinstein, "Israel
at Fifty" and
Edward
Said, "An
Orphaned People"
- Selected online articles from the "Israel
at Fifty" issue of Tikkun: A Bimonthly
Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture & Society (13:2,
March/April 1998): Benny
Morris, "Looking Back:
A Personal Assessment of the Zionist Experience";
Rashid Khalidi, "
A Universal Jubilee?
: Palestinians 50 Years after 1948"; Amoz Oz, "
A Monologue:
Behind the Sound and Fury"; and Kathleen
Kern, "
A Christian Perspective
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The
website
for "Give
It To Them," an
episode
of
Public
Radio
International's This American Life which
first aired in early August 2002, includes a splendid
page of Links,
Books and Resources on the Oslo Accords, Israeli
Revisionist History, and firsthand reports from
inside Israel and the West Bank.
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"The
Lemon Tree," a radio documentary featuring
an Israeli and a Palestianian who both share
claim to the same house. (This feature
aired on NPR's "Fresh Air," April 24,
1998 and May 7, 1999. The audio link on the "Fresh
Air" site
seems to be broken, but it can
also be found at the TCIAF
Feature Archive.)
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Seth Ackerman's"Losing
Ground" (pbs.org; originally
in Harper's magazine,
December 2001) is a map illustrating Arab and Jewish populations
in Israel/Palestine under a number of historical and projected
scenarios. See also letters critical
of Ackerman's map (from the March 2002 issue), along with
his response to his critics.
Jewish/Israeli
Opposition to the Occupation
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The left-leaning newspaper Haaretz (Israel's oldest paper, founded by socialist Zionists) has long been a voice for opposition to government policy towards the Palestinians. David Remnick profiles the editors in "The Dissenters" (The New Yorker 28 February
2011), while in "Uncovering the New Israel" (The Nation 1/8 August 2016), Eric Alterman considers Haaretz's current status in the midst of the sharp decline of Israel's secular left. One of the more controversial voices in Israeli journalism
is Amira
Hass, who has lived in the Gaza Strip for many years, reporting
on the harsh conditions of Palestinian life under military
occupation. (The ZNet archive linked here also contains many
articles by Edward Said, Neve Gordon, Uri Avnery, and other
prominent opponents of Israeli policy.)
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Finally,
in "The
Jewish Divide on Israel" (The Nation 12
July 2004), Esther Kaplan examines how AIPAC
(The American Israel Public Affairs Committee)
maintains a "politically
correct" stranglehold on American Jewish
opinion about Israel, and she surveys American
Jewish dissent.
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