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Historical Perspective
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Zionism
Maps
Diplomacy and US Involvement
US - Middle East Time Line
Negotiations and Diplomacy
Jewish Lobby and Congress
US Aid to Israel
Land and Refugees
Jewish Settlements in Occupied Territories
Refugee Rights
Jerusalem
Economic, Social, and Water Rights; Environmental Degradation
Militarization of Israeli Society
The Trial of Daily Life
Historical Perspective
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
| Palestinians 50 years on |
Hisham Sharabi (Palestinian academic and professor at Georgetown University) discusses Zionism, the differences between the PLO leadership that emerged under Arafat versus Georg Habash and the PFLP. This article was written in May 1998 - before the Second Intifada started - but its thoughtful approach and candid crticisms (of all sides) make it worth reading. |
| openDemocracy |
openDemocracy takes a non-partisan but highly informed view, with writers from differing perspectives and sides writing in multi-part format. |
| Research Guide |
Robin Miller has put together this exceptional set of information on the conflict in the Middle East. She lives in New Orleans. Her website is an example of individual activism at its best. |
| Uprising in Palestine |
This is an explanation and perspective on the Second Intifada, also from the Middle East Research and Information Project. |
| Al-Ahram coverage of second Intifada |
Many articles detailing different aspects of the second Intifada. Too much to process overall but good for looking up specific topics or getting a feeling of how moderate Arabs perceive the conflict. |
Zionism
| Zionism 101 |
Ann Lesch wrote this report on Zionism for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. It has a section on Historical Background, followed by British Mandate, Zionist Movement, Practical Zionism, Policies Toward the Palestinians, and Conclusion. |
Maps
Diplomacy and US Involvement
US - Middle East Time Line
Negotiations and Diplomacy
| The Avalon Project |
From the Yale Law School, a record of Middle East agreements with full text from as long as written records are available to the present! |
| Peace Agreements |
Link is under "Peace Agreements." Especially strong on the Oslo documents, but other historic documents too. Not good for current diplomatic materials. |
| Baker Institute (Rice Univ) |
Baker Institute is part of Rice University, and is named after former Secretary of State, James Baker. Edward Djerejian, former long-term diplomat to the Middle East and an expert on the region, is Director. They have streaming video, texts, and papers available for download with excellent discussion of topical interests such as energy, diplomatic, political, economic, and social issues. Well worth the time exploring. |
| Historical Documents |
An extensive listing and full text of documents relating to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from 1915 on. |
| Mideast Security and Policy Studies |
From the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA). This research institute is based in Bar-Ilan University (Israel) and concentrates of Israeli security and foreign policy issues. |
| European involvement |
The contribution of Le Monde here is Eurpopean involvement in the negotiations, with the assoicated documents. |
| BitterLemons |
A website airing divergent Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints on public policy and negotiations. along with other related topics. Edited and partially written by Ghassan Khatib (Palestinian) and Yossi Alpher (Israeli). Excellent content. |
Jewish Lobby and Congress
| Jewish Lobby |
Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2000 Congressional Candidates 1999-2000 Cycle from Washington Report. |
| Contributions Trend |
From opensecrets.org; shows Jewish Lobby contributions by PAC and soft money 1990-present. |
US Aid to Israel
| The Lifeblood of Occupation |
Matt Bowles in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs writes about how US aid has been instrumental in maintaining Israeli military occupation. |
Land and Refugees
Jewish Settlements in Occupied Territories
| Video on the Occupied Territory |
This video about the atrocities of Israeli occupation is accompanied by interviews and other materials that were recorded in its making but not included in the final cut. Requires Quicktime 4.0 or better. |
| Land Conflict |
Eyal Weizman writes a series called "Politics of Verticality" in openDemocracy about the land conflict. He is an Israeli architect. |
| Poica Occupation Archive |
Well-documented case studies of the systematic Israeli occupation and settlement of Palestinian lands. Funded by the European Union. |
| Foundation for Middle East Peace |
Publishes the online "Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories" which contains thoughtful, balanced writing and up-to-date information on Israeli settlement policies. FMEP was started in 1979 and is based in Washington. It promotes peace and security for both peoples. |
| Settlement Maps |
From Foundation for Middle East Peace, these maps deal with different aspects of settlements and population distributions, both in the Gaza Strip and West Bank along with Jerusalem and the Golan. The most comprehensive grouping of maps in the settlement subject area. |
Refugee Rights
| Right to Return (Al-Awda) |
"Right to Return" is an emotional issue for Palestinians, and equally opposed by Israelis. This website is dedicated to the Palestinian point of view. There's a very interesting debate between Dr. Salman Abu Sitta and Rabbi Michael Lerner which is well worth reading, as well as a lot of other good materials. |
| Refugee Research |
Facts, numbers, background, and a lot more to Palestinian Refugees. |
| Residency and Refugee Rights |
Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (Badil) is a Bethlehem-based NGO started in 1998 and acts as an advocate for Refugee rights, with a legal unit as well as resource and campaign units. |
| United Nations Refugees |
UNRWA has been the UN agency on the forefront of the conflict since 1948. There are photo histories along with statistical and written profiles of refugees, their living conditions, and other connected issues. |
| Debate on Right to Return |
The article mentioned above under Al-Awda. Michel Lerner is the Rabbi who publishes Tikkun in San Francisco. He is much attacked by Jews in the United States for his anti-Zionist views. Abu Sitta is a former member of the Palestinian National Council and current president of the Palestinian Land Society, based in London. |
| Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine |
Salman Abu Sitta, President of the Palestine Land Society (London), writes in Al-Ahram about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. |
Jerusalem
| Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information |
IPCRI was founded in Jerusalem in 1988 and is a joint Palestinian-Israeli public policy think-tank, working to try and resolve the conflict. Under download publications are discussions of Jerusalem and how it might be effectively part of a peace agreement. |
Economic, Social, and Water Rights; Environmental Degradation
| Israelis against house demolitions |
ICAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. |
| Rule of Law |
LAW is a Palestinian Human Rights organisation based in Jerusalem. LAW was founded in 1990 by a group of Palestinian lawyers to promote human rights and further the principles of the rule of law, and to defend Palestinian rights in accordance with international human rights law and United Nations declarations. It is dedicated to preserving human rights through legal advocacy. |
| Democracy |
Deals with building a democracy in Palestine (Grassroots). |
| Economic and Social Rights |
Water rights, economic issues, human rights, social rights, and legal issues in Palestine, Iraq, as well as other countries. Based in Brooklyn. |
| Environmental and Economic Activism |
Environmental degradation and legal aspects of peace and water rights are just some of the topics in papers available from the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem. ARIJ was founded in 1990 as an NGO and is affiliated with Al-Quds University. Staff and organizational chart listed at http://www.arij.org/back.htm#b3. |
| Arab Social Science Research Library |
Look here under topics for information about Palestine. Has water, environmental, human rights, and other materials. Also has similar information for all Middle Eastern countries. |
Militarization of Israeli Society
| Israel: Is the Military in Charge? |
Article by Tanya Reinhart, an Israeli academic and journalist. She details the power of the IDF and intelligence communities in Israel, and their relationships with the United States. Tanya Reinhart is professor of linguistics and cultural studies at Tel Aviv University and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Her political writings appear regularly in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot. |
The Trial of Daily Life
| Voices of Jerusalem |
This Jerusalem-based site includes remarkable eyewitness stories from real people who are living the Intifada on a daily basis. They include young people, mothers, the elderly. This is the real thing, neither filtered nor analyzed in any way. |
| A Gaza Diary |
A street-level look at life in Gaza by Chris Hedges. Hedges, a divinity-school-graduate turned war reporter works for the New York Times. This article appeared in the October, 2001 issue of Harpers. |
| A Daily Diary from Bethlehem |
Georgina Reeves is a British woman who, bored and dissatisfied with her London life, decided to go to Palestine to live and try to make a difference. This is the daily journal of a remarkable and dedicated young person. |
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