This page will provide an introduction to the conflict (eventually). For the time being, it will provide links to the relevant pages on the course wiki as well as other suggestions for resources. Wiki pagesWar in Gaza 2008-2009Palestinian Perspectives Maps of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip Jerusalem BooksRecently published books on the start of the conflict1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli Warby Benny Morris Yale University Press, 524 pp., $32.50 Making Israel edited by Benny Morris University of Michigan Press, 369 pp., $75.00; $24.95 (paper) A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel by Gudrun Krämer, translated from the German by Graham Harman and Gudrun Krämer Princeton University Press, 357 pp., $35.00 Review of these three books by Gershom Gorenberg in the New York Review of Books, May 28, 2009 - The War to Begin All Wars. |