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Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Baylis, Thomas. How Israel Was Won: A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Lexington Books, 1999. A pro-Palestinian chronicle of the conflict.
Bickerton, Ian J., and Carla L. Klausner. A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 1997. Uses a chronological framework to present the critical issues.
Guyatt, Nicholas. The Absence of Peace: Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. St. Martin's, 1998. Explains the historical context of the Oslo peace efforts and the motives and interests of the various players, regional and international, who are party to the agreements.
Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999. Knopf, 1999. A history of the long battle between Arabs and Jews by a revisionist Israeli historian, who counters some of his country's favorite myths.
Rabinovich, Itamar. The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations. Princeton University Press, 1998. The author places the reader at the negotiating table in this balanced and informative perspective on the subject of peace between Israel and Syria.
Rabinovich, Itamar. Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. Survey of Israeli-Arab relations from the founding of Israel in 1948 to the tentative peace process of the 1990s. Written by a former Israeli ambassador to the United States.
Sela, Avraham. The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order. State University of New York Press, 1998. Addresses the changing political behavior in the conflict of the regional Arab system, from hostility to negotiated peace with Israel.
Stein, Kenneth W. Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin and the Quest. Routledge, 1999. Chronicles the evolution of Israeli-Arab negotiations and analyzes the personalities of the key players and the contradictory goals of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, the United States, and Russia.
Wallach, Janet, and John Wallach. Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder. Rev. ed. Diane Publishing, 1999. Arafat and his role in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
For younger readers
Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999. Knopf, 1999. A balanced portrayal by a revisionist historian at Israel's Ben-Gurion University.
Ross, Stewart. Causes and Consequences of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1995. For middle school and high school readers.

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