author: William B. Quandt asin: 0815772890 binding: Paperback list price: $22.95 USD amazon price: $22.95 USD

Israel's military court system, a centerpiece of Israel's apparatus of control in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. This authoritative book provides a rare look at an institution that lies both figuratively and literally at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

author: Lisa Hajjar asin: 0520241940 binding: Paperback list price: $26.95 USD amazon price: $26.95 USD

author: Geoffrey Aronson asin: 0896082717 binding: Hardcover list price: $30.00 USD amazon price: $30.00

For decades, we’ve been shocked by images of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But for all their power, those images leave us at a loss: from our vantage at home, it’s hard for us to imagine the struggles of those living in the midst of the fighting. Now, American-born Israeli David Shulman takes us right into the heart of the conflict with Dark Hope, an eye-opening chronicle of his work as a member of the peace group Ta‘ayush, which takes its name from the Arabic for “living together.”

author: David Shulman asin: 0226755746 binding: Hardcover list price: $22.00 USD amazon price: $44.68 USD

Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present.

author: Zeev Maoz asin: 0472115405 binding: Hardcover list price: $55.00 USD amazon price: $55.00 USD

This latest work by Naseer Aruri focuses on the failed Middle East "peace process."Aruri analyzes the evolving relationship between the United States and the two protagonists-the Palestinians and Israel-and argues that the U.S.

author: Nasser Aruri asin: 0896086879 binding: Paperback list price: $18.00 USD amazon price: $18.00 USD

author: Graham Usher asin: 074531337X binding: Paperback list price: $26.00 USD amazon price: $37.18 USD

In 1993, amira hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in Gaza's gutted streets and destitute refugee camps.

author: Amira Hass asin: 0805057404 binding: Paperback list price: $18.00 USD amazon price: $16.56 USD

For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates the expansion and control of a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. It is neither democratic nor authoritarian, with rights and capabilities depending primarily on ethnic origin and geographic location. In Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine, Yiftachel presents a new critical theory and comparative framework to account for the political geography of ethnocratic societies.

author: Oren Yiftachel asin: 081223927X binding: Hardcover list price: $69.95 USD amazon price: $80.66 USD

In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause from one of its most eloquent spokesmen. These essays, which originally appeared in Cairo’s Al-Ahram Weekly, London’s Al-Hayat, and the London Review of Books, take us from the Oslo Accords through the U.S. led invasion of Iraq, and present information and perspectives too rarely visible in America.

author: Edward W. Said asin: 1400076714 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $13.65 USD