RESOURCES:  The web sites and books listed here contribute to a better understanding of Israel/Palestine today, and of what it will take to achieve peace and reconciliation among the peoples of the region. Selections reflect the issues facing our quest for reconciliation, justice, and a lasting peace.

WEB SITES

Al-Awda-News http://www.al-awda.org

American Task Force on Palestine -- http://www.americantaskforce.org

Americans for Middle East Understanding--http://www.ameu.org

B'Tselem--The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories--http://www.btselem.org

Charley Reese Articles -- http://antiwar.com/reese/

Christian Peacemaker Teams -- http://www.cpt.org

Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) -- http://www.cmep.org

Counterpunch -- http://www.counterpunch.org

Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding -- http://www.emeu.net

Electronic Intifada -- http://electronicintifada.net

Fellowship of Reconciliation -- http://www.forusa.org

Friends of Sabeel -- http://www.fosna.org or http://www.sabeel.org

Haaretz -- An Israeli Newspaper--http://haaretz.com

Holy Land Resources -- http://www.holylandresources.net 

If Americans Knew -- What Every American Needs to Know about Israel and Palestine -- http://www.ifamericansknew.org 

Information Clearing House -- News You Won't Find on CNN -- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info

International Middle East Media Center -- http://imemc.org

Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) -- Peace and Human Rights Group dedicated to resisting the occupation and working for a just and viable peace -- http://www.icahd.org

Jewish Voice for Peace -- http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org

Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights -- http://www.adalah.org

Mar Elias Educational Institutions -- http://mechs.org

Miftah --Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, founded by Hanan Ashrawi -- http://www.miftah.org

Mossawa Center -- Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel -- http://www.mossawacenter.org

Musalaha Reconciliation Ministries -- http://www.musalaha.org

Olive Trees Foundation for Peace, Reconciliation and Opportunity -- http://www.olivetreesfoundation.org

Palestine Report-- http://www.palestinereport.org

Pax Christi -- http://paxchristi.net

Sojourners Magazine -- Supporting Justice and Peace -- http://www.sojo.net

Stop the Wall -- http://stopthewall.org

Tikkun -- http://www.tikkun.org 

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Occupied Territories -- http://www.ochaopt.org

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs -- http://www.wrmea.com

Witness Magazine-- http://www.thewitness.org

 

BOOKS

 

Chacour, Elias, BLOOD BROTHERS, Chosen Books, Michigan, 1988

Chacour, Elias, WE BELONG TO THE LAND, University of Notre Dame Press, 2000

Ashrawi, Hanan, THIS SIDE OF PEACE, A PERSONAL ACCOUNT, Simon and Schuster, 1995

Ateek, Naim, JUSTICE AND ONLY JUSTICE, Orbis Books, 1989

Baltzer, Anna, WITNESS IN PALESTINE: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories, Paradigm Publishers, 2007

Bennis, Phyllis, UNDERSTANDING THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT, Trans-Arab Research Institute, 2002

Burge, Gary M., WHOSE LAND? WHOSE PROMISE? What Christians are not being told about Israel and the Palestinians,  Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2003

Chapman, Colin, WHOSE PROMISED LAND?, Lion Publishing, 2002

Findley, Paul, THEY DARE TO SPEAK OUT, Lawrence Hul Books, 1989

Finkelstein, Norman, IMAGE AND REALITY OF THE ISRAEL/PALESTINE CONFLICT, Verso, 2001 

Goldstein, Stephen, ISRAEL-PALESTINE: A Mission Study for 2007-2008, Study Guide by Sandra Olewine.  (A publication of the Women's Division, Bd. of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church.)

Hass, Amira, DRINKING THE SEA AT GAZA, DAYS AND NIGHTS IN A LAND UNDER SEIGE, Henry Holt, 1996

Raheb, Mitri, I AM A PALESTINIAN CHRISTIAN, 1995;  BETHLEHEM BESIEGED, 2003. 

Shlaim, Avi, THE IRON WALL, ISRAEL AND THE ARAB WORLD, Penguin Books, 2001

Sizer, Stephen, CHRISTIAN ZIONISM, Intervarsity Press, UK

Tolan, Sandy, THE LEMON TREE: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Bloomsbury, 2006 

Wagner, Donald, ANXIOUS FOR ARMAGEDDON: A CALL TO PARTNERSHIP FOR MIDDLE EASTERN AND WESTERN CHRISTIANS, Herald Press, 1994

Wagner, Donald, DYING IN THE LAND OF PROMISE: PALESTINE AND PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANITY, Melisende, 2001

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Suggestions for other resources are welcome!  Email Bob Sawyer, Pilgrims' Executive Director, pilgrims@triad.rr.com