Bibliography of the Arab–Israeli conflict

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

General histories / overviews

2020s

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

See also

• International law and the Arab–Israeli conflict
• Media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict