The epilogue to the Palestine series is an essay from Max that draws upon personal experience and reveals what he learned from putting together these episodes. The conclusions are far from uplifting. In fact, they’re dire.
Resources
Marxists.org: Leon Trotsky on Zionism
Council on Foreign Relations: What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel
PBS: Parallel Realities - Resolution 242 And The Aftermath Of 1967 | Shattered Dreams Of Peace
Wikipedia: Six-Day War
Opinio Juris: The Biden Administration and the Golan Heights
Al Jazeera: Mapping Israeli occupation | Infographic News
Jewish Virtual Library: Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World
Christopher Hitchens on Antisemitism
BBC News: Golan Heights profile
The Baffler: Unmaking the Myth of Ben-Gurion
My Jewish Learning: Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews
JCPA: Ben-Gurion’s Concept of Mamlahtiut and the Forming Reality of the State of Israel
Council on Foreign Relations: The Sunni-Shia Divide
Council on Foreign Relations: What Is U.S. Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
Council on Foreign Relations: How Evictions in Jerusalem Led to Israeli-Palestinian Violence
NPR: This is how the Republican Party became so strongly pro-Israel
The Jewish Agency: Modern Zionist Aliyot
The Weiner Holocaust Library: How did the Holocaust happen?
Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Evian Conference
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Issa al-Sifri
UN: Faisal-Weizmann agreement/Non-UN document - Question of Palestine
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Musa Kazim Husseini
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Fanack: Historic Palestine: The Arab Executive (1920 -1934)
MERIP: Owen, Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine
MERIP: Conspiracy of Praise
Just Vision: Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
The New York Times Archive: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World since 1948
Jewish Virtual Library: Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky
Encyclopedia: Altalena
Palquest: Abd al-Aziz Rantisi
MERIP: The War of Numbers
The Washington Post: War Casualties Put at 48,000 in Lebanon
Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute: The Reagan Administration and Lebanon, 1981–1984
Al Jazeera: Who is Israel’s far-right, pro-settler Security Minister Ben-Gvir?
Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas To Bombing It
HRW: Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated
The Hill: Trump on Israel embassy move: ‘Evangelicals appreciate it more than the Jews’
HRW: A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
Pew Research Center: Israel’s Religiously Divided Society
The Guardian: Red Cross and Vatican helped thousands of Nazis to escape
Pew Research Center: The most (and least) culturally diverse countries in the world
Mosaic Magazine: The Looming War Over Israel’s Law of Return
The Daily: Israeli Citizenship for Non-Jews - Exploring the Naturalization Process
The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel: Discriminatory Laws in Israel
Council on Foreign Relations: What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel
Human Rights Watch: A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
Reuters: How Hamas secretly built a 'mini-army' to fight Israel
Human Rights Watch: Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated
Wilson Center: The US Discovery of Israel's Secret Nuclear Project
Associated Press: With the world’s eyes on Gaza, attacks are on the rise in the West Bank, which faces its own war
Council on Foreign Relations: Conflict in Syria
Reuters: Lebanon economic crisis worsened by vested interests, IMF says
United Nations: Ethnic Cleansing
NPR: Half of Gaza's population is under 18. Here's what that means for the conflict
Committee to Protect Journalists: Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
Book Love
Rashid Khalidi: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Moshé Machover: Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution
Dennis Ross: Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
James L. Gelvin: The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Jeremy Wilson: Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence
Jim Newton: Eisenhower: The White House Years
Augustus Richard Norton: Hezbollah: A Short History Updated and Expanded Third Edition
UNFTR Episode Resources
Palestine: An Introduction. The Land Imperialism Left Behind.
Palestine: Part One. The Jewish Question.
Palestine: Part Two. The Palestinian Cause.
Palestine: Part Three. Two states, one state, none.
Phone A Friend: Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.
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