Middle East / Israel / Palestine Resources

http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres5/wujshasbara.pdf
This is a collection of useful links I've found recently (and previously), in my efforts to gain an objective understanding of modern political 'Zionism', the relevant history and religious belief, and Israel's relationship with Palestine. This list is by no means exhaustive, and you are welcome to add to it in the replies. I've focused mostly on Israel here, and I'm sure there are plenty of websites explaining the Islamic side?

The key problem with this topic, for someone like me, is that whoever you ask, whoever you read, everyone has some kind of bias. I gather there are twelve tribes of Israel (not all Jewish) who were exiled, became the diaspora and basically returned there in about 1948. And that's where it gets more tricky to study without opinions getting in the way.

Lead link is a pdf of the 'Hasbara Handbook: Promoting Israel on Campus'. Thanks to the guy who gave me that yesterday... see you around here soon I hope.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917#Text_of_the_declaration

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/

http://www.mideastweb.org/mewgroups.htm

http://www.mossad.gov.il/Eng/About/History.aspx

http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/zionism/history.cfm

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/hizballah.htm

http://www.nkusa.org/

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nk.html