Where to start

  • Gilbert, Martin. Israel: A History, London: Doubleday, 1998.
  • Schulze, Kirsten. The Arab-Israeli Conflict, London: Pearson Education, 2008.

More suggested reading

  • Arian, Asher. Politics in Israel: The Second Republic, Michigan: CQ Press, 2005.
  • Avineri, Shlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism: Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State, New York: Basic Books, 1981.
  • Bregman, Ahron and El-Tahri, Jihan . Israel and the Arabs: An Eyewitness Account of War and Peace in the Middle East, New York: TV Books, 2000.
  • Eldar, Akiva and Zertal, Idith . Lords of the Land: The War over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007, translated by Vivian Eden, New York: Nation Books, 2009.
  • Friedman, Thomas. From Beirut to Jerusalem, New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
  • Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 9th Edition, Oxford: Routledge, 2008.
  • Laqueur, Walter and Rubin, Barry . The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict, New York: Penguin Books, 2008.
  • Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2008.
  • Nusseibeh, Sari and David, Anthony . Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life, London: Picador, 2008.
  • Oren, Michael. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Ross, Dennis and Makovsky, David . Myths, Illusions and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East, Viking, 2009.
  • Sachar, Howard. A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, New York: Knopf, 2007.
  • Sayigh, Yezid. Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Shindler, Colin. What Do Zionists Believe?, London: Granta Books, 2007.
  • Tessler, Mark. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1994.