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April 2024

Foreign Affairs Recommends: Books on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict


Tracing both origins and future trajectories, these books delve into the unresolved conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.  

Book cover for The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

By Rashid Khalidi

Reviewed by Lisa Anderson

Drawing on family archives and personal experience, Khalidi constructs a powerful argument about the nature of the Zionist claim to Palestine. Read More
Book cover for The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories (Contesting the Past)

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories

By Neil Caplan

Reviewed by L. Carl Brown

In this book, Caplan goes beyond the basic chronological narrative to analyze the self-images and images of the other that the Israelis and the Palestinians have brought to their long-standing confrontation. Read More
Book cover for Gaza: A History (Comparative Politics and International Studies)

Gaza: A History

By Jean-Pierre Filiu

Reviewed by John Waterbury

“Peace between Israel and Palestine can assume neither meaning nor substance except in Gaza," Filiu argues. 

Read More
Book cover for The Shift: Israel-Palestine from Border Struggle to Ethnic Conflict (Columbia/Hurst)

The Shift: Israel-Palestine From Border Struggle to Ethnic Conflict

By Menachem Klein

Reviewed by L. Carl Brown

This dense little book, a fact-filled account of Israel and the Palestinians since the June 1967 war, treats not peace-process politics but actual developments on the ground.

Read More
Book cover for Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality

Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality

By Ian S. Lustick

Reviewed by Lisa Anderson

This book examines the forces in Israeli history and politics that have contributed to the failure of the two-state solution. Read More
Book cover for The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine?

The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine?

Edited by Michael Barnett, Nathan J. Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami

Reviewed by Lisa Anderson

In a model of scholarly engagement with challenging political issues, Barnett and his co-authors argue that the continued embrace of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian impasse obscures realities on the ground. Read More
Book cover for The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled

The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled

By Dahlia Scheindlin

Reviewed by Lisa Anderson

Candid, forthright, and often courageous, Scheindlin’s book cuts through decades of bromides, wishful thinking, and unconstructive ambiguity to assess the long and painful struggle to establish democracy in Israel. Read More

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