Bibliography of the Arab–Israeli conflict

This is an incomplete bibliography of the Arab–Israeli conflict.

General histories / overviews

2020s

Bickerton, Ian J.; Klausner, Carla L. (2023) [1986]. A History of the Arab–Israeli Conflict (9th ed.). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-60028-5. OCLC 1328028538.
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan; El Alami, Dawoud Sudqi (2022) [2001]. The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's Guide (5th ed.). Oneworld Publications. ISBN 9780861543700. OCLC 1332952719.
Dowty, Alan (2023) [2005]. Israel / Palestine (5th ed.). Polity Press. ISBN 9781789604085. OCLC 1159827251.
Gelvin, James L. (2021) [2006]. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History (4th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-48868-6. OCLC 1200831609.
Halper, Jeff (2021). Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State. Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-4339-6.
Khalidi, Rashid (2020). The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. Metropolitan Books. ISBN 978-1-62779-854-9.
Kumaraswamy, P. R. (2023). The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Ringside View. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-87184-5. OCLC 1350914792.
Mahler, Gregory S. (2023) [2009]. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Introduction and Documentary Reader (3rd ed.). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-91131-2. OCLC 1389552804.
Said Aly, Abdel Monem; Feldman, Shai; Shikaki, Khalil (2022) [2013]. Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East (2nd ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-350-32140-3. OCLC 1332951367.
Siniver, Asaf, ed. (2022). Routledge Companion to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-64861-8. OCLC 1288424737.
Slater, Jerome (2020). Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-045908-6.
Smith, Charles D. (2020) [1988]. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents (10th ed.). Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 978-1-319-23973-2.
Zureik, Elia T. (2023). The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-85711-5.

2010s

Gelvin, James L. (2014) [2005]. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03718-2.
Gowans, Stephen (2019). Israel, a Beachhead in the Middle East: From European Colony to US Power Projection Platform. Baraka Books. ISBN 978-1-77186-183-0.
Nutt, S. (2019). Self-determination, Sovereignty and History: Situating Zionism in the Settler-colonial Archive. University of Exeter.
Rubin, Barry M. Israel: An Introduction (Yale University Press, 2012), ISBN 978-0-300-16230-1
Sachar, Howard M. (2013-07-31). A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8041-5049-1.
Spangler, Eve. Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict. Springer, 2015. ISBN 978-94-6300-088-8

2000s

Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey (2008). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict (4th ed.). Alpha Books. ISBN 978-1-59257-791-0.
Ben-Ami, Shlomo (2006). Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli–Arab Tragedy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518158-6. OCLC 61463610.
Bickerton, Ian J.; Klausner, Carla L. (2005) [1991]. A Concise History of the Arab–Israeli Conflict (4th. updated ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780131900042. OCLC 54479246.
Dowty, Alan. Israel/Palestine (Polity, 2005), ISBN 0-7456-3202-5
Fraser, T. G. The Arab–Israeli Conflict. 2nd ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), ISBN 1-4039-1338-2
Guyatt, Nicholes. The Absence of Peace: Understanding the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict. London and New York: Zed Books, 2001
Harms, Gregory with Todd M. Ferry. The Palestine–Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction (Pluto Press, 2005), ISBN 0-7453-2378-2
Karmi, Ghada. Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine. London: Pluto Press, 2007.
Kimmerling, Baruch (2008). Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14329-5.
Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist–Arab Conflict, 1881–2001 (Vintage Books, 2001), ISBN 0-679-74475-4
Pappe, Ilan A History of Modern Palestine: One Nation, Two Peoples: Second Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Roraback, Amanda. Palestine in a Nutshell or Israel in a Nutshell (Enisen Publishing, 2004), ISBN 0-9702908-4-5
Rubenberg, Cheryl A., ed. Encyclopedia of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008.
Sela, Avraham. "Arab–Israeli Conflict." The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East. Ed. Avraham Sela. New York: Continuum, 2002. pp. 58–121.
Shlaim, Avi (2009). Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-78960-165-7.
Smith, Charles D. Palestine and the Arab–Israeli Conflict. 5th ed. (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004), ISBN 0-312-40408-5
Tessler, Mark. A History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict (Indiana University Press, 2009, 2nd Ed)
Wasserstein, Bernard. Israelis and Palestinians (Yale University Press, 2003), ISBN 0-300-10172-4

20th century

Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim. The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab–Israeli Conflict. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1971.
Antonius, George, The Arab Awakening
Benvenisti, Meron. Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
Cattan, Henry (1988). The Palestine Question. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-003-32577-2.
David, Ron. Arabs & Israel for Beginners (Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc. 1996), ISBN 0-86316-161-8
Dowty, Alan and Alvin S. Rubenstein, eds. Arab–Israeli Conflict: Perspectives. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.
ESCO Foundation (1947). Palestine – A Study Of Jewish Arab And British Policies. Vol. I. Yale University Press. OCLC 459549878.
Finkelstein, Norman G. Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict. London: Verso, 1995.
Gerner, Deborah J. One Land, Two Peoples: The Conflict over Palestine. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2nd ed., 1994.
Hadawi, Sami. Bitter Harvest: A Modern History of Palestine. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1989.
Hurewitz, J. C. The Struggle for Palestine (Shocken Books, 1976), [out of print]
Khouri, Fred J. The Arab–Israeli Dilemma. 3rd ed. (Syracuse University Press, 1985), ISBN 0-8156-2340-2
Avondale, Ritchie. The Origin of the Arab-Israeli Wars (Pearson Education, Edinburgh 1984), 2004 4th revised ed.
Sykes, Christopher. Crossroads to Israel (Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1965), [out of print]
UN Division for Palestinian Rights (1978). "Part I". The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem. United Nations. online and in pdf form

Non-English

Cejka, Marek. Israel and Palestine: The Past, Present and Direction of the Middle Eastern Conflict (Barrister and Principal, 2005), ISBN 978-80-87029-16-9
Laurens, Henry
- La Question de Palestine I, L'invention de la Terre sainte. 1799–1922, 1999
- La Question de Palestine II, Une mission sacrée de civilisation, 1922–1947, 2002
- La Question de Palestine III, L'Accomplissement des prophéties 1947–1967, 2007
- La question de Palestine IV, Le rameau d'olivier et le fusil du combatant, (1967–1982), Fayard, Paris 2011.
- La question de Palestine V, La paix impossible, 1982–2001, Fayard, Paris 2015.

Collaborative histories

Rafi Nets-Zehngut (2013), Palestinians and Israelis Collaborate in Addressing the Historical Narratives of their Conflict, in "Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. Journal of Fondazione CDEC"
Paul Scham; Benjamin Pogrund; As'ad Ghanem (2013). "Shared Narratives—A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue". Israel Studies. 18 (2): 1–10. doi:10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.1. JSTOR 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.1. S2CID 143704677.
The Israel Palestine Project (2013), Israel and Palestine: A Common Historical Narrative
Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi; Zeina M. Barakat (2013). "Israelis and Palestinians: Contested Narratives". Israel Studies. 18 (2). Indiana University Press: 53–69. doi:10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.53. JSTOR 10.2979/israelstudies.18.2.53. S2CID 144376631.
Shaul M. Gabbay; Amin Kazak (2012). One Land: Two Stories. Livingston Publishing House. p. 554. ISBN 9780985196103.
Dan Bar-On; Eyal J. Naveh, eds. (2012). Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel–Palestine. New Press. ISBN 9781595586834.
Motti Golani; Adel Manna (2011). Two Sides of the Coin: Independence and Nakba 1948. Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation. p. 342. ISBN 9789089790811.
Neil Caplan (2011). The Israel–Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories. John Wiley & Sons. p. 336. ISBN 9781444357868.
Ilan Pappé; Jamil Hilal, eds. (2010). Across the Wall: Narratives of Israeli–Palestinian History. I.B. Tauris. pp. 462 pages. ISBN 9781848853454.
Ned Lazarus (2008). "Making Peace with the Duel of Narratives: Dual-Narrative Texts for Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Israel Studies Forum. 23 (1). Berghahn Books: 107–124. doi:10.3167/isf.2008.230106. JSTOR 41805211.
Mike Berry; Greg Philo (2006). Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories. Pluto. ISBN 9780745325651.
Robert I. Rotberg, ed. (2006). Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix. Indiana University Press. p. 283. ISBN 9780253218575.
Paul Scham; Walid Salem; Benjamin Pogrund, eds. (2005). Shared Histories: A Palestinian–Israeli Dialogue. Left Coast Press. p. 298. ISBN 9781598740134.
- Paul Scham. "Modern Jewish History: Traditional Narratives of Israeli and Palestinian History". Jewish Virtual Library.
Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME) (2003), Learning Each Other's Historical Narrative
Deborah L. Flick (2002), Toward Understanding the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom (2002), Truth Against Truth: A Completely Different Look at the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
Ilan Pappé, ed. (1999). The Israel/Palestine Question, Rewriting histories. Psychology Press. p. 278. ISBN 9780415169486.

Analytical / focused

Abunimah, Ali. The Battle for Justice in Palestine. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2014. Akram, Susan M., Michael Dumper, Michael Lynk, and Iain Scobbie, eds. International
Alam, M. Shahid. Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Bard, Mitchell G. Will Israel Survive? New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Bregman, Ahron Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America.
Bregman, Ahron (2002). Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-28716-2
Carey, Roane, ed. The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid (Verso, 2001), ISBN 1-85984-377-8
Catignani, Sergio Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the two Intifadas: Dilemmas of a Conventional Army (London: Routledge, 2008), ISBN 978-0-415-43388-4.
Barzilai, Gad. Wars, Internal Conflicts, and Political Order: A Jewish Democracy in the Middle East. (New York University Press), ISBN 0-7914-2943-1.
Chomsky, Noam. The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians. Rev. ed. (South End Press, 1999), ISBN 0-89608-187-7.
Dershowitz, Alan. The Case for Peace: How the Arab–Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.
Dershowitz, Alan. The Case for Israel (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), ISBN 0-471-67952-6
Eran, Oded. "Arab–Israel Peacemaking." The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East. Ed. Avraham Sela. New York: Continuum, 2002.
Enderlin, Charles. Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995–2002 (Other Press, 2003), ISBN 1-59051-060-7
Falk, Avner, Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab–Israeli Conflict. University of Wisconsin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-299-20250-X
Finkelstein, Norman. Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict. 2nd ed. (Verso, 2003), ISBN 1-85984-442-1 2nd ed. introduction
Finkelstein, Norman. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. (University of California Press, 2005), ISBN 0-520-24598-9.
Flapan, Simha. The Birth of Israel: Myth and Realities (Pantheon Books, 1987),[out of print]
Flapan, Simha. Zionism and the Palestinians (Croom Helm, 1979), [out of print]
Gold, Dore. The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2007.
Goldberg, Jeffrey. Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.
Green, Stephen. Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with a Militant Israel (William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1984), [out of print]
Greenstein, Ran (2022). Anti-Colonial Resistance in South Africa and Israel/Palestine: Identity, Nationalism, and Race. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-429-67075-6.
Hirst, David. The Gun and the Olive Branch. 3rd ed. (Nation Books, 2003), ISBN 1-56025-483-1
Karsh, Efraim. Arafat's War: The Man and His Battle for Israeli Conquest. New York: Grove Press, 2003.
Maniscalco, Fabio. Protection, conservation and valorisation of Palestinian Cultural Patrimony (Massa Publisher, 2005), ISBN 88-87835-62-4
Mandel, Neville J. The Arabs and Zionism Before World War I (University of California Press, 1976), [out of print]
Mardellat, Victor, "La Tragédie israélo-palestinienne. Une lecture du conflit israélo-palestinien à travers la tragédie antique". Suresnes: Les éditions du net, 2014.
Martin, Dom. COEXISTENCE: Humanity's Wailing Wall TransGalactic Publications, 2006, ISBN 0-9616078-8-2
Masalha, Nur (2014). The Zionist Bible: Biblical Precedent, Colonialism and the Erasure of Memory. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-54464-7.
Masalha, Nur (2007). The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology and Post-Colonialism in Palestine-Israel. Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-84277-761-9.
Morris, Benny. 1948: The History of the First Arab–Israeli War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Pappe, Ilan, ed. The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge, 1999), ISBN 0-415-16948-8
Pappe, Ilan. The Making of the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1947–1951. London: I.B. Tauris, 1994.
Pearlman, Wendy. Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada (Nation Books, 2003), ISBN 1-56025-530-7
Pressman, Jeremy. The Sword is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force, Manchester University Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-5261-4617-5
Quandt, William B. Peace Process. 3rd ed. (Brookings Institution Press, 2005), ISBN 0-520-24631-4
Rabinovich, Silvana (2022). Biblical Figures in Israel's Colonial Political Theology. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-031-03822-8.
Reinhart, Tanya. Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (Seven Stories Press, 2002), ISBN 1-58322-538-2
Ross, Dennis. The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), ISBN 0-374-19973-6
Safran, Nadav. The United States and Israel, ISBN 0-674-92490-8 [out of print]
Safran, Nadav. Israel: The Embattled Ally (The Belknap Press, Harvard, 1978), [out of print]
Said, Edward W. The Question of Palestine (Vintage Books, 1992), ISBN 0-679-73988-2
Salinas, Moises. Planting Hatred, Sowing Pain: The Psychology of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict (Greenwood-Praeger Publishers, 2007), ISBN 0-275-99005-2
Sartola, Pekka. Myths and Facts. (Xulon Press, 2014), ISBN 1628715057
Selby, Jan (2003). Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israeli–Palestinian Conflict. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 1-86064-934-3
Shamir, Ronen (2000). The Colonies of Law: Colonialism, Zionism and Law in Early Mandate Palestine. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-63183-9.
Shihade, Magid (2011). Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict among Palestinians in Israel. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5111-6.
Shipler, David K. Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. Rev. ed. (Penguin Books, 2002), ISBN 0-14-200229-1
Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (London: Penguin Books, 2000), ISBN 978-0-14-028870-4
Swisher, Clayton E. The Truth About Camp David (Nation Books, 2004), ISBN 1-56025-623-0
Thomas, Baylis. How Israel Was Won (Lexington Books, 1999), ISBN 0-7391-0064-5
Tilley, Virginia. The One-State Solution, (University of Michigan Press, May 24, 2005), ISBN 0-472-11513-8
Todorova, Teodora (2021). Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel: Settler Colonialism and Resistance from Within. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78699-642-8.
Uzi Rabi & Chelsi Mueller. A Critical Survey of Textbooks on the Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Working PaperNo. 1 2017 and The Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Textbooks on the Modern Middle East: A Critical Survey Working Paper No. 2 2019 MDC Tel Aviv
Wasserstein, Bernard. Israelis and Palestinians. Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop? (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001)

Fiction

Abulhawa, Susan. Mornings in Jenin, (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010), ISBN 978-1-60819-046-1
McCann, Colum. Apeirogon: A Novel, (Random House, 2020)
Munich. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf. Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds. DreamWorks, 2005. DVD.
Uris, Leon. Exodus, (Doubleday & Company, 1958)
You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Dir. Dennis Dugan. Perf. Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson. Sony Pictures, 2008. DVD.
Al Jundi, Sami. The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker, (Nation Books, 2011)

External bibliographies of the Arab–Israeli conflict

"SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT IN ENGLISH". Trinity College. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
Daniel Pipes. "Bibliography - The Arab–Israeli Conflict". Retrieved 30 November 2013.
Alan Dowty. "The Arab–Israel Conflict". Oxford Bibliographies. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
Patrick S. O'Donnell (2015). "The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: A Select Bibliography". Department of Philosophy Santa Barbara City College.
Tinnes, Judith (2014). "Bibliography: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Part 1)". Perspectives on Terrorism. 8 (5): 84–116. ISSN 2334-3745. JSTOR 26297282.
Tinnes, Judith (2018). "Bibliography: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Part 2)". Perspectives on Terrorism. 12 (1): 152–185. ISSN 2334-3745. JSTOR 26343769.

Bibliography of the Arab–Israeli conflict

General histories / overviews

2020s

2010s

2000s

20th century

Non-English

Collaborative histories

Analytical / focused

Fiction

External bibliographies of the Arab–Israeli conflict

See also