History

Al Nakba (from Aljazeera)

Palestinians refer to it as “Al Nakba”, which literally translates as “The Catastrophe”. It refers to the mass exodus of at least 750,000 Arabs from Palestine. Though most believe this event began in 1948, in fact, Al Nakba began decades earlier.

Books

List of books that talk about Israel and Palestine, most writers are Jewish:

• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: by Ilan Pappe
• Fateful Triangle: by Chomsky
• Goliath, Life and Leathing in Greater Israel: by Max Blumenthal
• The Isreale Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
• Israel-Palestine on Record
• Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict: by Norman G. Finkelstein
• A History of Modern Palestine, One Land, Two Peoples: by Ilan Pappe
• Righteous Victims: by Benny Morris
• The War for Palestine
• The Israeli Holocaust against the palestininans
• The punishment of Gaza
• Pity the Nation: Robert Fisk
• The Gun and The Olive Branch: by David Hirst
• Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid
• Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History: by Norman G. Finkelstein
• The Holocaust Industry: by Norman G. Finkkelstein
• All the Shah’s men

Video: What Events Lead to the Current Situation in Israel and Palestine?

Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D. in political science at Princeton University.

In this video, Norman provides a detailed modern historical view of how the Israeli state was created, the impacts it had and the modern wars that Israel has raged on Gaza and Palestine detailing their consequences.