Thursday, May 8, 2014

Annotated Bibliographies

Lesch, David W. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This book Gives a detailed description of the Arab Israeli conflict going back to the declaration of Israel as a state and the necessary background information to understand the state of Israel and its history of war with the outlying Arab countries.

  Rotberg, Robert I. Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

The book offers a unique perspective on both the Israeli and Palestinian perspective on their conflict. the author states the obvious facts between these two and notes the misconception they have with each other with the Israeli citizens being misinformed about the situation that many Palestinians are in and what goes on out side their own borders like the food and humanitarian aid crisis.

Wasserstein, Bernard. Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop?New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003

This book offers both perspectives and solutions on how the Israeli and Palestinian governments can work together to provide the better benefit for both people in the region. One solution that the author had brought up was the attacks on Palestinian villages by the Israeli military. if they had offered up compensation for their transgressions like restoration of destroyed land, it would help bring Palestinian political leaders to the table towards the peace process.

Abukhater, Maher. "Food Aid Allowed to Enter Palestinian Refugee Camp in Syria." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2014. Web. 07 May 2014.

This Los Angeles times article talks about the resent progress that the Israeli military has done to help bring better food security towards Palestinians with humanitarian aid to better help feed these people instead of a fraction of the population.
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Mason, Alane Salierno, Dedi Felman, and Samantha Schnee. Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers : An Anthology. New York: Anchor Books, 2007.

In this anthology one writer talks about the shared ideas of literature and how it has no boundaries between different political groups like Palestinians and Israelis.She compares and contrasts the different styles of literature and how closely associated they are with each other with the same idea of peace.

Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

In this Book Former President Jimmy Carter calls on action by the United Nations to bring peace upon the situation in Israel calling to end the apartheid in the Gaza strip and West Bank. One of the most important arguments he does bring up is the Lack of aid going throughout these regions where the Israeli government have had restrictive laws preventing them from getting that aid.

"UN World Food Program." In Gaza, WFP Turns Women Into Community Nutritionists. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 May 2014.

This article by the world food program talks about Palestinian women learning how to become Nutritionists in their own household and efforts by the world food program on how to teach them. Many Palestinian citizens go malnourished every day and these aid effort allows them to have more food independence and security since the average house hold in these territories spend half of their income on rising prices of food. 

Remy, Mina. "Recovery after Winter Storm Alexa." GrassrootsOnline.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 May 2014.

In this article the PARC (Palestinian agricultural relief committee) Directs their efforts in Palestine to help with a resent winter storm that has killed many crops and could cause the price of food to skyrocket even more.

Hans Lofgren, Alan Richards, (2003) "Food security, poverty, and economic policy in the Middle East and North Africa", , Vol. Iss: 5, pp.1 - 31

In this Anthology The author goes in depth with how to start food security in Palestine with utilizing their own homes and rooftops to start. the main problem that Palestinians have in growing plants is that there is no water available to grow them so if they are put on rooftops, crops have better chance for water through rain and instead of paying most of their income for more expensive crops.

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition (2009)  "Gaza Strip"

This article goes into the depth on the 2008 Israeli Hamas conflict and goes into detail on how much more was lost on the Palestinian side compared to only 13 deaths on the Israeli side and goes into how much agricultural land was lost for Palestinians.



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