israel/palestine intro

[Don Antenen]

Well, you know, for that I recommend a good blanket (in the color scheme of whichever flag) a-and hot tea.

all the best,
Don



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 From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: israel/palestine intro
 

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.
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>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.
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>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...
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>all the best,
>Don
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