Israel & the Palestinians
High quality essays written by experts on Israel and the Middle East are presented. Essays discuss the history of Israel and Palestine, the reasons behind the ongoing conflicts there, and theories on how to create peace. Significant terms and historic events are also provided.
An Overview of Relations Between Israel and Palestine
The conflict is rooted in the question of whether the Palestinian people should be allowed to form their own independent country and government in an area that is currently part of...
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History of Israel and Palestine
While all of the other British-controlled territories eventually became independent states, Palestine remained under British control, as mandated by the League of Nations, and...
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Current Events in Israel-Palestine Relations
Israel officially withdrew from the Gaza Strip in September 2005, ending its military rule, but maintaining control over the Gaza airspace and coastline. The Palestinian Authority has...
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Editor's Choice
Moving toward peace in the Middle East.
U.S. Department of State Dispatch
Features the opening statements made by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel at a press conference in Jerusalem on...
Remarks on the Situation in the Middle East.
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
Presents the text of a speech given by U.S. President George W. Bush on April 4, 2002, which deals with the crisis in the Middle East.
What America Can Do.
Newsweek (Pacific Edition)
Contends that to contribute to the genuine progress in the Middle East, the United States must suggest a program that combines respect for Arab...
'I Can Make Peace.'
Newsweek
Presents an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. His plan to protect Israel from attacks by Palestinians; His relationship to...
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Duck and Cover
Current Events
Describes a political cartoon on the Israeli-Palestinian armed conflict in the Middle East. Appeal of Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia for the...
In Search of the Elusive Israeli Peace Partner
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
The article reports that the Israeli peace camp has failed to become a significant political movement because it could not find a peace partner among...
Amendment of Palestinian Covenant
U.S. Department of State Dispatch
Presents an excerpt of a statement by the White House Press Secretary applauding the Palestine National Council's vote to revoke the sections of the...
Q&A
Junior Scholastic
Answers questions about the political histories of Israel and Palestine.
Chronology of Events
Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics & Culture
Presents a chronology of events related to Palestine-Israeli's politics, economics, and culture as of January to April 2003. Deportation of seven...
Palestinian Authority is short on real power
Christian Science Monitor
Opinion. Discusses the conditions in Palestine after the signing of its accord with Israel. Role of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the ruling body...
UAE
Middle East Monitor: The Gulf
Explores the political and economic conditions of the United Arab Emirates. Political threat of the armed conflict between Palestinian Arabs and...
Middle East
New York Times Upfront
Encapsulates political developments in the Middle East in 2002. Allegations hurled by Israel and Palestine at each other; Threat made by the U.S. to...
Post-Election Challenges
Middle East
Focuses on the political conditions in Israel after prime ministerial elections held on January 28, 2003. Details on prime ministerial elections;...
WHY BEGIN SHOULD INVITE ARAFAT TO JERUSALEM
Foreign Affairs
This article advises the government of Israel to consider extending unconditional recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a...
Israelis timed switch to Syrian track to avoid U.S. pressure for concessions to Palestinians
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Focuses on the shift in Israel's attention towards Syria in line with its peace treaty negotiations affecting Palestine. Impact of the shift on...
Security Council Resolution 1397 Accepts Palestinian State, But Sharon Does Not
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Reports the inclusion of the Palestinian State in Security Council Resolution 1397. Endorsement of the Saudi peace plan; Support of the U.S. to the...
The Next Mideast Deadline
Christian Science Monitor
Editorial. Comments on the peace process in the Middle East. The May 17, 1999 election of a new prime minister and government; How Prime Minister...
S A Solid Shekel
Emerging Markets Monitor
Assesses the economic and political conditions in Israel as of March 7, 2005. Growth in the real gross domestic product in 2004; Decline in...
Israel & the Palestinians Articles A-Z
- 'I Can Make Peace'
- 'I Can Make Peace.'
- `Intifadah' reignites in West Bank
- A chance to seize the moral high ground
- A House Is a Home
- A Man and His People
- A prisoner from every household
- A Product of the American Jewish Community
- A Stone's Throw
- Access Denied: Palestinian Land Rights in Israel
- Adult Books: Nonfiction
- Albright cranks up peace process
- An International Conference For Peace
- AN INTERVIEW WITH Yasser Abed Rabbo
- AN OLIVE BRANCH AND AN ARMY
- Annapolis: A Revolution of Concepts
- Another perspective on Middle East peace
- APARTHEID CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PALESTINE QUESTION
- Arafat wants new accords with Israel
- Arafat will go to Bethlehem
- Arafat, Sharon Walk off Set of Israel
- Ariel Sharon Outsmarts Bush and Arafat
- Arrests on the West Bank
- As Israeli-Palestinian talks sink, fringe ideas gain traction
- Book reviews
- Book reviews: Social sciences
- Books briefly noted
- Books in brief
- Brief reviews: The Middle East
- Bush-Sharon Confrontation Looms
- Can Arabs Make Peace with Israel?
- Christian leaders deplore wall
- Church Groups Offer 'Beacons of Hope' to Palestinian Communities--If the 'Beacons' Can Get Through
- Civilians Under Siege
- Concrete Keeps Pouring In
- CONDEMN THE ATTACKS
- Count Me In
- Daily Mail
- DESCENT INTO HELL
- Despite several disruptive incidents, Israel and the PLO
- Divestment from Israel
- Do We Know The Problem - Are There Solutions?
- Don't Give Up on Peace
- Encounter in Gaza
- Enlightenment through play
- Equality now
- EUROPEAN POLL: ISRAEL "BIGGEST THREAT TO WORLD PEACE"
- Fateful choices for Shimon Peres
- Fear of Being Slandered as 'Anti-Semites' Means We Are Abetting Terrible Deeds in the Middle East
- Feeling winds of Arab Spring, Israel douses sparks of Palestinian uprising
- Following Sharon's Re-election, U.S. Must Demand Justice for Palestinians
- Forecasts: Nonfiction
- Gaza/West Bank
- Hatim Kanaaneh, A Doctor in Galilee: The Story and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel (London: Pluto Press, 2008). Pp.310. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0745327860
- Heading toward apartheid in Israel
- Historical Dynamics Shaping Palestinian National Identity
- How conflict remolded Dahlan's attitudes
- Human Rights
- Impressions of a People Under Siege
- In key West Bank town, two religions rub raw
- In search for militants, Israelis blow up houses
- Intractable Foes, Warring Narratives: Measuring the Unmeasurable
- Introduction
- Is Israel Poised for a New Round of Ethnic Cleansing?
- Israel 'Fights Terrorism' With War on the Palestinian Authority
- ISRAEL 55 YEARS LATER
- Israel and Palestine: Will national interest accord with diplomacy?
- Israel and the Palestinians
- Israel and the PLO reached a tentative agreement
- Israel celebrates as Palestine dreams on
- Israel condemned for torture of Palestinian detainees
- Israel Faces a New Boycott Threat
- Israel freed Palestinian prisoners
- Israel granted control of municipal affairs
- Israel strikes at Palestinian nationalism itself
- Israel The Embattled Land, Jewish and Palestinian Women Talk About Their Lives (Book)
- Israel weighs up the options
- Israel's crumbling democracy blocks peace
- Israel's deadly lightweight
- Israel's risk
- Israel's Strategy for Combating Palestinian Terror
- Israel's War Against the Palestinians
- Israel: Terrorism vs. peace
- Israeli and Palestinian proposals for the West Bank
- Israeli Arabs: Living in limbo
- ISRAELI MEGAPROJECT'S MILESTONE REACHED DESPITE REGION'S TENSION
- Jerusalem: Victim or conqueror?
- John Lloyd
- LAUREN booth
- Let us become victims again
- Letter from: Gaza
- Letter to a Fallen Friend
- LETTING GO
- License to open bank
- Living in and loving Israel day by day
- MAKING SENSE OF A WORLD IN CONFLICT
- Map Search
- Media bias
- Medicine and books
- Memory can turn men into heroes
- Middle East Crisis
- Mideast peace glimmers
- Mideast time line
- MIXED SIGNALS
- Must Palestinians choose?
- National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs Versus Jews in Israel
- Natural gas vital to Israel's future
- Neighbours
- New Works in International Affairs
- No turning back for the Palestinians
- Nonviolent force
- Notes and Comment
- Nothing's simple
- Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel (Book)
- Of steel and cruelty
- Only US can revive `land for peace' in Mideast
- Outsiders' Identity: Are the Realities of 'Inside Palestinians' Reconcilable?
- Palestine after Desert Storm
- Palestine Pays Salaries to Terrorists in Israeli Prisons
- Palestinian chief taps radicals to press Israel on peace moves
- Palestinian Civil Society in Israel
- Palestinian Israelis taxed and squeezed
- Palestinian Leadership on the West Bank: The Changing Role of the Mayors Under Jordan and Israel (Book)
- Palestinian ministers
- Palestinian NGOs in Israel: A Campaign For Civic Equality in a Non-Civic State
- Palestinian party affiliation and political attitudes toward the peace process
- Palestinian Representative Speaks to National Press Club
- Palestinian unemployment sapping territories
- Palestinian-Israeli relations sour over security and settlements
- Palestinians and Israel: Iffy progress
- Palestinians Between Israel and Jordan: Squaring the Triangle
- Palestinians consider Mideast talks trump card: declaring statehood
- Palestinians left high and dry
- PALESTINIANS SUFFER AS ISRAEL CLOSES DOORS TO ECONOMY
- Palestinians yesterday strongly condemned
- Paying the price of settlements
- PEACE NOT
- Peace won't come to the Mideast until Palestinians love their children more than they hate Jews
- PMA mulls end of shekel
- Political Conditions
- Protesting in Bethlehem
- Rabbi Ascherman's Mission
- Refugee Status
- Refugees detained
- Saudi-US ties are crucial to peace
- Segregation, harassment mark Palestinian life
- Sharing the Beach
- Sharon's Victory and Tight Bonds Between U.S. and Israel Hold Long-term Dangers
- Shorter notices
- Sidestepping Dependency
- Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel (Book)
- Soldier On
- Stalemate in the Middle East
- Struggle for Peace
- Suicide Bombing
- Talk of Expulsion More Ominous Than Ever
- Tempers cool on EU-Israel trade conflicts
- That's Progress
- The culture of resistance: The 1967 war in the context of
- The Depths of the Wall
- The Economic Competitiveness of Jordan: Financials Returns, Labor Productivity and International Gaps
- The Fateful Triangle (Book)
- The Four Wars of Israel/Palestine
- The Future Is Now
- The Israeli-Palestinian paradox
- The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
- The Palestine Wound Festers, Always
- The Palestinian Labor Market in Israel: Between Globalization and Intifada
- The Planning Crisis in East Jerusalem: Understanding the Phenomenon of "Illegal" Construction
- The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem
- The Right of Return (I)
- The Right of Return (II)
- THE STATUS OF PALESTINIANS IN ISRAEL: 1948-OSLO
- The Story of a Silenced Palestinian Nightingale
- The United States of Israel
- The Viability of the Palestinian State and Israel's Settlement Policy
- The Violence of Curfew
- The War's Effect on Palestinian Children
- The weight of one man's words: A guide to Arafat-speak
- There Can Be No 'Return.'
- Thousands of Palestinians returned
- TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF POLITICAL TERRORISM: The Palestinian Resistance Movement
- True friends and false
- Turn Swords Into Ballots
- Two Peoples...Two States
- U.S. must condemn any unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood
- Untitled
- Uri Avnery
- US presses for resumption of talks
- Vatican Official: Denial of Rights at Root of Mideast Conflict
- West Bank tension
- Where Will They Go?
- Whither the Zionist Dream?
