Confused, angered, stunned about what is happening in the Lebanon and Israel? Check these resources for information and different perspectives on this conflict which Israeli news sources are now referring to as war.
- ABC – authorative Australian news site
Aljazeera.com – major news agency focusing on events and issues in the Middle East - Aljazeera.net – Arabic TV network and web site
- The Australian – online site (image of Beruit – The Australian 23/07/06)
- Beirut News – web site
- Dar Al-Hayat – ‘an alternative perspective and in-depth reporting on the Middle East and the Arab world’
- Factiva – database of the latest news from the world’s major news sources updated daily – recommended. (CSU students and staff only)
- Haaretz.com – Israeli news web site
- Lebanon a pawn in Mid-East colonial war by Tariq Ali, The Age, 23 July (check the CSU Library catalogue for books by Tariq Ali)
- SBS World News – Australian
- Ynet.news – Israeli news web site
- News and Newspapers – CSU Library (local, national and world)
Background reading and viewing from your CSU Library – check the Library catalogue and BONUS for many more titles.
- The great war for civilisation: the conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (opinionated but recommended)
- Pity the nation: Lebanon at war by Robert Fisk (1990, about the Lebanese civil war)
- Gaza strip directed by James Longley – documentary examining the lives of Palestinians living in Gaza (DVD) – devastating
- Growing up Palestinian: Israeli occupation and the Intifada generation by Laetitia Bucaille (memoir)
- Martyrs: innocence, vengeance and despair in the Middle East by Joyce M. Davis
- A history of the modern Middle East by William L. Cleveland
- The case for peace: how the Arab-Israeli conflict can be resolved by Alan Dershowitz
- A history of modern Palestine: one land, two peoples by Ilan Pappe
I’ve heard about a book called The Israel Lobby or something like that. Does the Library have it?
It’s a paper titled “Israel lobby and Israel foreign” policy” written by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt from Harvard University. Do a title search of the CSU Library catalogue to access the paper.