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Required
- Emile
Habiby (obituary) and "The
Israeli Arabs"
- Eric Black, from Parallel
Realities (Alternatively, try Mike Shuster's NPR series, The
Mideast: A Century of Conflict. For a quick review, you
might also want to refer to PBS's nutshell History
of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, an interactive timeline
annotated with Israeli and Palestinian views on the history
of the region.)
- Edward Said, "Bombs
and Bulldozers" (The Nation 8 & 15 September
1997). Though the occasion for which this piece was written is
long past, its complaint about what Said calls the "bulldozers
of forgetfulness" is still timely (and relevant to Habiby's
novel), as is its reminder that "there was always another
people in Palestine, [and] every village, kibbutz, settlement,
city and town [in Israel] has an Arab history also."
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Recommended
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Selected
online articles originally from The Nation's "Israel
at Fifty" issue
(May 4, 1998): Danny Rubinstein, "Israel
at Fifty" and Edward Said, "An
Orphaned People"
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NPR's Linda
Gradstein on the controversy over a revisionist
history curriculum in Israeli schools (RealAudio file from "All
Things Considered," November 15, 1999).
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The website
for "Give
It To Them," an episode of Public Radio International's This
American Life which first aired in early August 2002,
includes a splendid page of Links,
Books and Resources on the Oslo Accords, Israeli Revisionist
History, and firsthand reports from inside Israel and the West
Bank.
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NPR's Mike
Shuster reports on Israeli/Arab
apartheid in Israel (Real Audio file from "Weekend
Edition Saturday," April 18, 1998)
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"The
Lemon Tree," a radio documentary featuring an Israeli
and a Palestianian who both share claim to the same house. (This
feature aired on NPR's "Fresh Air," April 24, 1998
and May 7, 1999. The audio link on the "Fresh Air" site
seems to be broken, but it can also be found at the TCIAF
Feature Archive.)
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NPR's Jennifer
Ludden reports on the impact of the latest (ongoing)
Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories on Israel's
Arab citizens: Part
1 | Part
2 (RealAudio files from "All Things Considered," November
21 & 22, 2000)
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Seth
Ackerman's"Losing
Ground" (pbs.org; originally in Harper's magazine,
December 2001) is a map illustrating Arab and Jewish populations
in Israel/Palestine under a number of historical and projected
scenarios. See also letters critical
of Ackerman's map (from the March 2002 issue), along with his
response to his critics.
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