israel/palestine intro

[Ian Livingston]

But what if I want to stay curled comfortably up in my prejudice?

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Try Benny Morris' 'Righteous Victims'. It's not brief, but it's pretty
> definitive. He's one of the Israeli "new historians" who challenged a lot
> of the standard Zionist and Palestinian nationalist views of the conflict.
> He also wrote a book about 1947/1948.
>
> For current news, you can read Commentary magazine and Haaretz. The former
> is the intelligent neoconservative and Zionist mag in America and the
> latter is a leftwing Israeli newspaper that's very 'anti-occupation'.
> They're good to read against one another. The Forward also has good
> coverage. It's a leftwing Yiddish paper with an English edition.
>
> I don't know if anyone has written this, but I would love to read a
> comparative history of Israel and Pakistan. On paper their histories are
> remarkably similar - founded at almost the same time, one Islamic the other
> Jewish, large displacement of people at founding, both have nuclear weapons
> and prolonged conflict/tension with neighbors, both receive tons of $ from
> America, et cetera et cetera...
>
> all the best,
> Don
>
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