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

Feldman, Steven R., COMPARTMENTS: How the Brightest, Best Trained, and Most Caring People can Make Judgments that are Completely and Utterly Wrong, Xlibris Corporation, 2009.

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