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This is a long entry and very indepth coming to understand the roots of terrorism and in particular.. in Palestine. After that I have a long list of quotes and in each photograph or picture is a link to a particular website of interest. I also added a reading list at the end. I wrote the writer of the following material once online and he replied, though that was a long time ago. Dr. Eyad Sarraj was awarded the 1998 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders for his outstanding and courageous achievements in human rights in Palestine. He is the founder and Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, it provides support for those affected by the Intifida and the organized violence of the Israeli occupation. The GCMHP also contributes to public awareness and empowerment, in addition to therapy for individuals and groups. As the co-founder and Commissioner General of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizen's Rights, (which acts on complaints from Palestinians) he has played an active role in furthering democracy and human rights in Palestine. His open criticism of the Palestinian National Authorities has placed him in great danger and has resulted in his arrest on three occasions, most recently in June 1996, where he has experienced violence, torture, prolonged solitary confinement, and lack of access to an attorney. He participates in prevention of torture worldwide as a member of International Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims, and the Coordinating Committee of the Campaign Against Torture in the Middle East and North Africa.


Dr. Eyad Sarraj

I have my unique viewpoint about the siuation in the middle east. In the following Dr. Eyad Sarraj explains his thoughts on the problem in Palestine:

"Understanding Palestinian Terror":

~A few weeks ago I said that the struggle of Palestinians today is how not to become a bomb and that the amazing thing is not the occurrence of the suicide bombing, rather the rarity of them.

The BBC interviewer appeared to understand. I was shocked because it is our understanding that the world out there will never understand. And who on earth in their right mind would understand terror and the killing of innocent people? Why do Palestinians kill themselves and Israelis in such an horrific way at the bus stop or in a crowded market? Do you really care to know? Well, let me try and explain.

I believe it is an act of absolute despair and a very serious stage of the seemingly perpetual conflict. Since the uprooting of the Palestinians in 1948 triggered by Irgun Jewish terror under the leadership of Yitzak Shamir and Menachem Begin, we have tried every thing. We have tried Nasser and Arab Nationalism, only to be invaded in 1956 in our second homes in the refugee camps. It was only because of the Russian threat to bomb London and Paris, and the resolve of American president Eisenhower that ended the Israeli occupation.

We have tried the United Nations and its Security Council, which by the way have made excellent resolutions on our behalf. For example Resolution 194 calling on Israel to allow us to return to our homeland, but to no avail. So we kept wandering around, between airports and refugee camps, waiting for a hero or an earthquake. All we wanted was to go home. But our story was getting worse and we grew bitter as we heard that a Jew from Poland would be declared a citizen of our country - a country now called Israel. We were told that officially we were stateless with undefined nationality. So we went toniversities. We believed then that Jews were so clever because they were educated. We were told that Jews controlled the world with their education. They are doctors, lawyers and scientists, never beggars or boxers. In twenty years many of us became university graduates and we were in every university. We had some pride. Some of our educated people formed the resistance movement. They believed that the Arab countries would never fight Israel, and that we had to force them to fight. Fatah with Yasser Arafat was born. They forced the Arabs to fight by inviting Israel to attack Egypt in 1967. In the course of six days the Arabs were defeated again but worse. This time we lost Gaza and the West Bank, Egypt lost Sinai, and Syria lost the Golan. In a sudden stroke our fate was sealed and we had to live under Israeli military occupation for thirty years. Do you know what does it mean to live under Israeli military occupation? Do you really care to know? Let me tell you a few things.

You are given an identity number and a permit to reside. If you leave the country for more that three years in succession, you lose that right to residence.

When you leave the country on a trip, you are given a laissez passez, a travelling document, valid for one year and it tells you in its recording of your particulars that you are of undefined nationality.

Israeli occupation means that you are called twice a year by the intelligence for routine interrogation and persuasion to work as an informer on your brothers and sisters. No one is spared. If you are to be a member of a political organization you will be sentenced for ten years. For a military action you will be sentenced to life.

To survive under the Israeli occupation you are given the chance to work in the jobs that Israelis do not like, sweeping the streets, building houses, collecting fruit or harvesting. You will have to leave your home in the refugee camp in Gaza at 3 am, go through the road blocks and check posts, spend your day under the sun and surveillance returning home in the evening to collapse in bed for a few hours before the following day.

We simply became the slaves of our enemy. We are building their homes on our villages, and we clean their streets. Do you know what does it do to you when you have to be the slave of your enemy in order to survive. No you will never know how painful it is unless your country is occupied by another force. Only then will you learn how to watch in silence pretending not to see the torture of your friends and the humiliation of your father.

Do you know what it means for a child to see his father spat at and beaten before his eyes by an Israeli soldier? Nobody knows what happened to our children. We don't know ourselves except we observe that they lose respect for their fathers. So they, our children, the children of the stone as they became known, tried the Intifada - the Uprising. Seven long years our children were throwing stones and being killed daily. Nearly all our young men were arrested, the majority was tortured. All had to confess. The result was every one suspected that all people were spies. So, we were exhausted, tormented and brutalized. What else could we do to return to our home? We had almost forgotten that and all what we wanted was to be left alone.

What else could we try? Oh yes, peace. When the news came that Arafat had signed a peace treaty in Washington we were jubilant. At last we thought we were to get rid of that miserable life of military occupation, at last. So we had hope.

We could not believe our eyes when there were no more curfews and we could actually spend our evening on the beach or wander in streets which were now ours after eight o'clock at night. We were ecstatic. We even had elections and we had a parliament, so we were told.

Then came Binyamin Netanyahu.

He refused to meet Arafat and was clearly forced to shake hands in obvious disgust. He refused to free our prisoners, to have a safe passage for us to move between the West Bank and Gaza. He even surrounded our towns and villages with his tanks and arrested our policemen. Then he went after our holy places and opened a tunnel under our holiest Mosque. Tens of our children and also Israeli soldiers were killed because of that tunnel, but he went on insulting us and driving out our sanity.

Arafat called for patience and we were patient, then Netanyahu started to build settlements in Jerusalem and drive the remaining Palestinians out. Settlers in Hebron spat on our prophet and called him a pig. All in the name of peace we were humiliated, even arrested and tortured by Palestinian forces to protect the peace. Our Authority was turning against us to please Netanyahu. Our officials were driving in big cars and building big villas. They have VIP cards and cross the check posts like human beings while we are left to rot.

I 've told you a few things. Now do you understand why we have turned into suicide killers?~


The situation in the Middle East is a complete disaster on how governments on all sides have dealt with it. They have only been interested in there own petty politics and it has led to hatred on both sides that leave young women and children dead. A time will come when there is peace on all sides but it will happen till corrupt politics and power plays are put aside.

In the following interview he went to to say the following when questioned about the future:

What can Israelis do?

The Israelis can do a lot. At least the Israeli government is very sensitive to public opinion. Each extreme group feeds the other. In order for [Ariel] Sharon to control his people, he needs Hamas to intimidate these people and to frighten them. Israel has become a culture of fear, which is dominated by the military. It has always been a military regime. And this fear is fed by suicide bombings. As long as there are suicide bombings, Sharon will be in control. So what the Israelis need to do, from their side, is to try to pressure their government to stop this campaign of violence against the Palestinians, so at least the Palestinians will stop using suicide bombings against the Israelis. And the Israelis should respond by pressuring the Israeli government, by making the rest of the society aware that the way out of this mess, for Israel to stay as a state, particularly as a Jewish state, is for them to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza as soon as possible. The next round will be for a one-state solution, where there will be no Jewish masters and Arab slaves. It will be a struggle for equality and a struggle against racism. If Jews want to have a Jewish state, it is now or never.

How do you rate Abu Ala�s chances of getting something positive done?

I think he has the will, but I don�t think he has the power. It�s a very complex story. On the one hand we have Arafat, and we have [George W.] Bush and we have Sharon. These three are not really working for peace. As long as they are together - I know Arafat wants a solution - but the other two are doing everything possible not to have peace, supported by the extreme right in Israel and by the extreme right in Palestine. So Abu Ala�a will be in the middle of this. What chances will he have? Very slim chances. I think that there is a possibility, positively speaking, of him being able to do something, because Hamas is ready to stop suicide bombings inside Israel. That is very good, because that will allow him the chance to maneuver without having to confront Hamas, which would be a huge task and could lead to civil war. He can contain them and handle them in a way that would not mean confrontation.
The other major task is to give the Palestinians a sense of purpose, a sense of hope, a sense of security. But that will not happen without an Israeli government that is really interested. This Israeli government, I believe, is not interested in peace, because peace, as far as Sharon is concerned, is a danger to Israel because it means giving up the land, and land is more important than peace. Land is more important to Sharon than Jewish blood. So that is another difficulty. So I think that as long as Sharon is in power, as long as Bush is in power - with this kind of policy... maybe they will change. If they change, good. But I don�t believe that Bush or Sharon will change.

If they did change their policies tomorrow, how much support will there be for a political solution?

Huge support. Everybody is waiting for a solution. The Palestinians have had enough and the Israelis have had enough. And we know what the solution is, and the question is how many people have to be killed before the solution is implemented. Although the solution is unjust for us - because Israel will take more land than was decided in the [1947 UN] partition plan - still, I think that the majority of Palestinians will accept it, if it happens today and if there are no settlements. The Geneva Declaration, for example, I think would be accepted by the majority of Palestinians because there would be no settlements, [a return to the] 1967 borders, and it will give the refugees the chance to be resettled, either in Palestine or third countries or in Israel, according to negotiations. The majority of the Palestinians and the majority of Israelis will be in support of a political solution.~



From 1988 through 2001 Dennis Ross worked as the United States Envoy to the Middle East and has just released a new book "The Missing Peace : The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace", which I will have to read. In it he deals with the sloution President Clinton worked on as his time as President ran out as did the efforts by The United States were not carried over by President Bush for a peaceful solution.


click here for an interview with Dennis regarding his book 'the Missing Peace'



Dennis Ross and Yasser Arafat (click to listen to Interview of Dennis Ross)

I need to rest... This is such a complex iusue. I would say see the film Fog of War by Errol Morris to get an understanding partially of how things can get so messed up. But I do believe peace can be made, it is just a matter of time. That with hard work and patience will get us all there.


Quoted:


�For believing [Torah] Jews, Zionism is anathema to our religion, indeed to our very being. Real Jews do not want to take over Palestine. Real Jews wish to live in peace with all peoples, especially our Arab/Muslim cousins. Real Jews commiserate with the suffering of the Palestinian people at the hands of the satanic Zionist Reich.�--Adiv Abramson, an orthodox Jew



"I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do. I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian childs existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger."--� Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister & homicidal psychopath


"Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them - and those who stand by them - they are all in one trench, against the Arabs and the Muslims because they established Israel here, in the beating heart of the Arab world, in Palestine. They created it to be the outpost of their civilization and the vanguard of their army, and to be the sword of the West and the crusaders, hanging over the necks of the monotheists, the Muslims in these lands. They wanted the Jews to be their spearhead..."--Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, Member of the Palestinian Authority-appointed Fatwa Council

"If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"--1st Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion

"We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves."--Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv 1983

"In colonial Israel...human life is cheap." The leadership is "no longer ashamed to speak of war when what they are really engaged in is colonial policing, which recalls the takeover by the white police of the poor neighborhoods of the blacks in South Africa during the apartheid era." . . . No one can seriously doubt that the US role will continue to be decisive. It is therefore of crucial importance to understand what that role has been, and how it is internally perceived. . . . In the real world, the primary barrier to the "emerging vision" has been, and remains, unilateral US rejectionism. There is little new in the "Arab League's historic offer." It repeats the basic terms of a Security Council Resolution of January 1976 backed by virtually the entire world . . . It was opposed by Israel and vetoed by the US, thereby vetoing it from history. The Resolution called for a political settlement on the internationally-recognized borders "with appropriate arrangements...to guarantee...the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence of all states in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized borders" . . . the guiding principle of the occupation has been incessant and degrading humiliation, along with torture, terror, destruction of property, displacement and settlement, and takeover of basic resources, crucially water. That has, of course, required decisive US support . . . Current modifications of US rejectionism are tactical and so far minor. With plans for an attack on Iraq endangered, the US permitted a UN resolution calling for Israeli withdrawal from the newly-invaded territories "without delay" -- meaning "as soon as possible," Secretary of State Colin Powell explained at once. Palestinian terror is to end "immediately," but far more extreme Israeli terror, going back 35 years, can take its time. Israel at once escalated its attack, leading Powell to say "I'm pleased to hear that the prime minister says he is expediting his operations." . . . Meanwhile the US continues to "enhance terror," to borrow the President's words, by providing Israel with the means for terror and destruction, including a new shipment of the most advanced helicopters in the US arsenal."--Noam Chomsky

"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."--Yasir Arrafat,On going to war over religion.

'Every time we do something, you tell me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure, we the Jewish people control America, and Americans know it.'--�Ariel Sharon Israeli Prime Minister, homicidal psychopath, Knesset, Tel Aviv, October 3, 2001

�Every time I have gone to Israel in connection with the peace process on each of my trips I have been met with the announcement of new settlement activity. This does violate United States policy. It is the first thing that Arabs--Arab governments�the first thing that Palestinians in the territories�whose situation is really quite desperate�the first thing they raise when we talk to them. I don�t think there is any greater obstacle to peace than settlement activity that continues not only unabated but at an advanced pace."--former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker


"The Bush administration is almost entirely bereft of actual military heroes, but it is filled with pasty-faced Zionists who want to smash the Arab world, along with Big Business executives who want to control the world's oil supply."--Dave Rollins

"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."--1st Prime Minister of the state of Israel David Ben-Gurion, May 1948

"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."--Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online

�Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war... We are very far from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle. First and foremost, terror is for us a part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today...�--Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister, Zionist terrorist

"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle."--Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983

"And you can write that I am disgrace to humanity, I don't mind, on the contrary. Let's make a deal: I will do all I can to expel the Arabs from here, I will do all I can to increase anti-Semitism, and you will write poems and essays about the misery of the Arabs and be prepared to absorb the Yids I will force to flee to this country and teach them to be a light unto the gentiles. How about it?"--Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister & homicidal psychopath


"My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism."--Republican U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, August 30, 2004

"The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity."--Senator Alexander Wiley

"[Iran, Libya and Syria] are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons [of] mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve."--Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, speaking to American Congressmen

"Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don't care. And I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. Then you can spruce up your Jewish conscience and enter the respectable club of civilised nations, nations that are large and healthy. What you lot don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it. True, it could have been finished in 1948, but you interfered, you stopped it. And all this because of the Jewishness in your souls, because of your Diaspora mentality. For the Jews don't grasp things quickly. If you open your eyes and look around the world you will see that darkness is falling again. And we know what happens to a Jew who stays out in the dark. So I am glad that this small war in Lebanon frightened the Yids. Let them be afraid, let them suffer. They should hurry home before it gets really dark. So I am an anti-Semite? Fine. So don't quote me, quote Lilienblum instead [an early Russian Zionist]. There is no need to quote an anti-Semite. Quote Lilienblum, and he is definitely not an anti-Semite, there is even a street in Tel Aviv named after him."�-Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister & homicidal psychopath

"We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters."--Yitzhak Rabin (Later Israeli Prime Minister), 1979

"You are the greatest campaign manager in history because you've just elected Sharon by a majority that's huge, and you think it doesn't matter, and you'll see."--President Bill Clinton speaking to Yassur Arafat

�Many rabbis and professionals have told me recently that they fear for their jobs should they even begin to articulate their doubts about Israeli policy � much less give explicit support to calls for an end to the occupation.�--Rabbi Michael Lerner, April 28, 2002

"By so proclaiming we proclaim before the world that we are the people of the Torah, that our faith demands that we be honest and fair and good and kind. We have attended hundreds of pro Palestinian rallies over the years and everywhere we go the leaders and audience greet us with the warmth of Middle Eastern hospitality. What a lie it is to say that Palestinians in particular or Muslims in general hate Jews. You hate injustice. Not Jews."--Rabbi Mordechi Weberman

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."--Mother Teresa

"The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind. Somebody must have sense and somebody must have religion. I remember some years ago, my brother and I were driving from Atlanta to Chattanooga, Tennessee. And for some reason the drivers that night were very discourteous or they were forgetting to dim their lights...And finally A.D. looked over at me and he said, 'I'm tired of this now, and the next car that comes by here and refuses to dim the lights, I'm going to refuse to dim mine.' I said, 'Wait a minute, don't do that. Somebody has to have some sense on this highway.' And I'm saying the same thing for us here in Birmingham. We are moving up a mighty highway toward the city of Freedom. There will be meandering points. There will be curves and difficult moments, and we will be tempted to retaliate with the same kind of force that the opposition will use. But I'm going to say to you, 'Wait a minute, Birmingham. Somebody's got to have some sense in Birmingham.'"--Martin Luther King, Jr., 3 May 1963

"Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility."--Desmond Tutu

"I went out of my way to be the first president who showed a concern, not just for the Arab countries and the oil producers, but for the Palestinians in the street and their troubles. And I was convinced that America and the world would be safer and that terrorism would be much easier to manage as a problem if we made this peace."--President Bill Clinton

"We've never seen spiritual leaders take a lead in this conflict or emphasize the importance of tolerance or reaching peace. The foremost clerics on the Palestinian side, in the Islamic world, and the chief rabbis in Israel have not taken it upon themselves to emphasize the importance of peace. It's not that they're out there deliberately creating a set of impediments, but they're certainly not at the forefront of trying to promote reconciliation."--Dennis Ross


"Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, that we may walk the paths of the Most High. And we shall beat our swords into ploughshares and our spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation�neither shall they learn war any more. And none shall be afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken."--Jewish Prayer

"In the name of Allah,
the beneficent, the merciful.
Praise be to the Lord of the
Universe who has created us and
made us into tribes and nations
That we may know each other, not that
we may despise each other.
If the enemy incline towards peace, do
thou also incline towards peace, and
trust God, for the Lord is the one that
heareth and knoweth all things.
And the servants of God,
Most gracious are those who walk on
the Earth in humility, and when we
address them, we say "PEACE."--Islamic Prayer

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."--Mohandas K. Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919


*Recommended Books on the Middle East Conflict:



Click here to see Joe Sacco's book 'Palestine'


� All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied, by Walid Khalidi (Institute for Palestine Studies 1992).

� Antique Land, by Amitay Ghosh (Vintage Books 1994).

� The Arab Israeli Dilemma, by Fred Khouri (Syracuse University Press 1985).

� A History of the Arab Peoples, by Albert Hourani (Warner Books 1992).

� Battle for God, by Karen Armstrong (Ballantine Books 2001).

� Bible and Sword : England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour, by Barbara Tuchman, (Ballantine Books 1988).

� Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy : The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul, by Martin Dillon, Gordon Thomas

� Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestine Question, by Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens (Verso Books 2001).

� Blood Brothers, by Elias Chacour (Chosen Books 1987).

� Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community, by Dan Raviv, Yossi Melman

� The Body and the Blood, by Charles Sennott (Public Affairs 2001).

� Broken Bridge, by Lynne Reid Banks (Flare 1996).

� Drinking the Sea at Gaza, by Amira Hass (Owl Books 2000).

� The Empires of Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East 1789-1923, by Efraim and Inari Karsh (Harvard University Press 1999).

� The Woman from Mossad: The Story of Mordechai Vanunu & the Israeli Nuclear Program, by Peter Hounam

� Fateful Triangle, by Noam Chomsky (South End Press 1999).

� Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, by Ari Ben-Menashe

� From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab Conflict Over Palestine, by Joan Peters (JKAP Publications 2001).

� The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development, by Sara Roy (Institute for Palestine Studies 1995).

� Habibi, by Naomi Shihab Nye (Pocket Books 1999).

� A History of God, by Karen Armstrong (Ballantine Books 1994).

� Holy War, The crusades and Their Impact on Today's World, by Karen Armstrong (Anchor Books 2001).

� The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, by Avi Shlaim (W.W. Norton & Company 2001).

� One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, by Tom Segev

�Bad News from Israel Greg Philo, Mike Berry Holy War, Holy Peace, by Marc Gopin (Oxford University Press 2002).

� Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, by Norman G. Finkelstein (Verso Books 2001).

� Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain (New American Library, reissue edition 1997).

� The Invention of Ancient Israel, by Keith W. Whitelam (Routledge 1997).

� Jewish History, Jewish Religion; The weight of Three thousand years, by Israel Shahak (Pluto Press 1994).

� The Map of Love, by Ahdaf Soueif (Anchor Books 2000).

By Way of Deception, by Victor Ostrovsky

� The Middle East, A Brief History of 2000 years, by Bernard Lewis (Touchstone Books 1997).

� The Muslim Discovery of Europe, by Bernard Lewis (W.W. Norton & Company 2001).

� Gideon's Spys : the Secret History of the Mossad, by Gordon Thomas

� Nine Parts of Desire: Hidden World of Islamic Women and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, by Geraldine Brooks (Anchor Books 1996).

� O Jerusalem, by Larry Collins (Touchstone Books 1988).

� Silent No More: Confronting America's False Images of Islam, by Paul Findley

� One Palestine Complete, by Tom Segev (Little Brown & Company 2000).

� Warriors Against Israel: How Israel Won the Battle to Become America's Ally 1973, by Donald Neff

� Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East in 1956, by Donald Neff

� The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists, and Palestine 1921-1951

� The Seven Pilllars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence

� A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, by David Fromkin

� Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians, by Baruch Kimmerling

� The Conflict in the Middle East: Analyzing the Present, Prospects for the Future

� Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children, by Catherine Cook, Adam Hanieh & Adam Kay

� Palestine, Palestinians and International Law, by Francis Boyle

� Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq by David Miller

� No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by Mark A. Heller & Sari Nusseibeh

� How Israel Lost: The Four Questions, Richard Ben Cramer

� They Dare to Speak Out, by Paul Findley (A Cappella Books 1989).

� A Fire in Zion: The Israeli-Palestinian Search for Peace, by Mark Perry

� Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition, by Norman G. Finkelstein

� How Israel Lost: The Four Questions, by Richard Ben Cramer

� The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent, by Tom Segev, Jonathan Shainin, Roane Carey

� Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the U.S.-Israeli Relationship, by Paul Findley

� Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, by Rashid Khalidi

� Israel/Palestine: The Black Book, edited by Reporters Without Borders

� The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians, by Michael Hoffman II, Moshe Lieberman

� Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion, by Nur Masalha

� They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby, by Paul Findley

� Final Judgement, by Michael Collins Piper

� Walking With the Damned : The Shocking Murder of the Man Who Freed 30,000 Prisoners from the Nazis, by Ted Schwarz


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FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE & ANTI WAR London Rally, Saturday 28th September 2002, To mark the second anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, 450,000 ordinary people from all races, all religions, all backgrounds, marched in unity, demanding Freedom for Palestine

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