Netanyahu says Hamas Gaza chief Mohammad Sinwar has been killed

[Beastly Boy]

72. Neither the format nor the environment on DU permit anything but the most superficial inquiries

into the topic of Israel/Palestine. The framing of the topic as "Israel/Palestine" is itself a somewhat misleading shorthand: the State of Israel, no matter how you look at it, makes up the majority of Palestine, and the division between the two is only meant to signify the separation between the State of Israel and the occupied territories of West Bank and Gaza, particularly their respective statuses in international law. In the immediate present, both Gaza and the West Bank are occupied, but under international law there are certain distinctions between the two which are too nuanced and contested to bring up here.

I usually respond, unless I am challenged otherwise, to posts that contradict facts, purposely or out of ignorance (not that I am completely immune from the latter), or to provide pertinent information that adds context or missing content. When I encounter particularly egregious examples, I tend to respond with snark. Guilty as charged.

As to the specifics of your question, the information I refer to is not found in books alone. It is more of a multimedia experience which includes printed sources. For brevity, I will limit the examples of written sources (it would be unfair to concentrate exclusively on "books" as volumes of text created by by authors and/or editors that circulate in printed form). I will also limit this list, for brevity, to the events between WW1 and the present, leaving out much of what eventually lead to the present.

First and foremost, I go to the original sources. These may include documents like the Hussein-McMahon correspondences, the Sykes-Picot agreement, the Balfour Declaration, the League of Nations grant of mandate to Britain, the UN partition of Palestine, the Geneva Conventions, the Rome Convention, the Camp David agreements, the Oslo accords, etc. For more descriptive and contiguous narratives, I would go to books lile "A Very Short History of the Israel/Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappe, Noa Tishby's "Israel", Benny Morris' "One State, Two States". I also like Encyclopedia Britannica for its ability to access specific topics. For the coverage of most recent events, there is no alternative to mass media in which I would slightly favor outlets within Israel and the Arab world (particularly Lebanese and Egyptian sources), not necessarily for impartial coverage but for their coverage of certain nuances that are routinely disregarded by the Western media.

What would you add to this list?