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The Other Israel, edited by the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (compilation of Israeli authors critical of Israeli government policies)
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Shared Narratives, Paul Scham and Walid Salem (compilation of Palestinian and Israeli narratives on each of the key events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict)
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Justice and Only Justice, Rev. Naim Ateek Orbis Books, Mary Knoll, NY (1989)
(Palestinian Liberation Theology and nonviolence)
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Blood Brothers Chosen Books (1984) and We Belong to the Land, Harper San Francisco (1990),
Bishop Elias Chacour (the personal history of a Palestinian Israeli Melkite priest who was displaced from his Galilean village and lives for peace and reconciliation)
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Healing Israel/Palestine, Rabbi Michael Lerner (editor of Tikkun magazine and head of Tikkun Community and Network of Spiritual Progressives)
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, President Jimmy Carter, Simon & Schuster (2006)
(recent best-seller that provides a brief history of the conflict and describes each of the elements needed to achieve a real peace between Israel and Palestine)
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The Problem with Israel, Jeff Halper (background paper on the conflict with several unique revelations about Israeli government policies, i.e. their continuous refusal to meet with Arab and Palestinian leaders to negotiate a peace agreement)
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Obstacles to Peace, Jeff Halper (a re-framing of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with several colorful maps and pictures)
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The Truth About Camp David, Clayton Swisher (well documented discussion of what “really” happened and didn’t happen at Camp David II – with Barak, Arafat and Clinton)
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When the Rain Returns, prepared by an international Quaker Working Party (includes a study guide and covers several key subjects like Jerusalem, occupation and settlements, Palestinian refugees and a discussion about the peace process, international involvement and “an opening for nonviolence”)
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Christian Zionism, Road-map to Armageddon? by Stephen Sizer, Inter-Varsity Press (2004)
(excellent discussion of Christian Zionism roots in England, the biblical basis of this political doctrine and its negative consequences on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict)
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Resurrecting Empire, Rashid Khalidi (Western footprints and America’s perilious path in the Middle East)
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Fifty Years of Israel, Donald Neff (the author takes 54 key issues & people like the Balfour Declaration & Israel Becomes Strategic Partner of the US and writes a four to eight page synopsis of what each is about).
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Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on US Middle East Policy, Kathleen Christison (The author was a CIA analyst covering the Middle East for many years, and explains why the US became Israel’s closest ally)
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Bethlehem Besieged by Mitri Raheb, Fortress Press (2004)
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Documents on Jerusalem published by PASSIA (Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem)(1996)
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe, One World, Oxford (2006)
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Jerusalem 1948, The Arab Neighborhoods and their Fate in the War, edited by Salim Tamari, The Institute of Jerusalem Studies and Badil Resource Center (2002)
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Jerusalem One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong, Alfred A. Knopf (1996)
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The Palestine Question in Maps 1878-2002 published by PASSIA (Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem) (2002)
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Perceptions of Palestine Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy by Kathleen Christison, University of California Press (1999)
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Whose Holy City? by Colin Chapman, A Lion Book, Oxford, England (2004)
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Witnessing for Peace in Jerusalem and the World by Munib Younan, Fortress Press (2003)