Here are some resources to learn more about the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the personal experiences of people who live in the region. To find more information about this topic, search the TADL catalog at tadl.org or email us at ask@tadl.org.
Online Periodicals
- What is the Palestinian group Hamas? By Reuters, October 7, 2023
- Timeline of conflict: Why the 2023 Israeli-Palestinian fighting is among the most brutal in years. By George Petras, Janet Loehrke, Kim Hjelmgaard, and Javier Zarracina, USA TODAY, October 9, 2023
- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A chronology.Sammy Westfall, Brian Murphy, Adam Taylor, and Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, October 9, 2023
- Timeline: A look into the long history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By Kiara Alfonseca, ABCNews, October 12, 2023
- What are the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict? - By Chris McGreal, The Guardian, October 13, 2023
Online Reference Resources
- Timeline - Britannica ProCon.org
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Council on Foreign Relations
- Creation of Israel, Office of the Historian, United States Secretary of State
Books and Documentaries available at TADL
Online Resources available at TADL
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Britannica School
To gain summary information related to topics such as Gaza Strip, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, or Palestine, Britannica School gives straight-forward, encyclopedic content. As students discover the details about the geographic region, culture, changes in leadership, political affiliations, and pivotal events, they can dig deeper with embedded, linked content to people and place names such as Benjamin Netanyahu, Kaled Meshaal and Plain of Sharon. Primary Source documents that correlate to the article, like the Hamas Covenant 1988, can be found under the tab, Related.
eBook Collections
There are hundreds of eBooks in MeL that offer varying perspectives of historic events in this region. From the eBook High School Collection and translated from the original Hebrew work, Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Villages of 1948, offers an aftermath perspective of Arab-Israel War of 1948. Other books in this collection include On Palestine and The Origins of Israel, 1882-1948: A Documentary History.
The eBook Academic Collection provides several titles related to the United States involvement through the years. These include Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance, The Movement and the Middle East: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left, and Israel, the United States, and the War Against Hamas, July-August 2014: The Special Relationship under Scrutiny.
Viewpoints and Jewish Studies Source
Highlighted in the featured content, both Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints and Points of View Reference Center provide thousands of news stories on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in audio and video from sources such as BBC, NPR, The Washington Post Videos, and NYTimes.com Video Collection. Additionally, both resources have hundreds of point/counterpoint perspectives for students to consider.
Finally, Jewish Studies Source, which offers “a multidisciplinary view of the study of the Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present,” includes publications such as Jerusalem Viewpoints and Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies.