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The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East

By Ian J Bickerton, Tony Taylor, Copyright Year 2015, ISBN 9780170244183

The following links are referenced in your textbook

General websites

Foundation for Peace in the Middle East: the most reliable and accurate site for historical and current information on this subject
www.fmep.org/

Jewish Virtual Library: an Israeli view on the history of the state and other questions relating to Jews and Judaism
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/

Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs: an Arab non-profit institution that seeks to present the Palestinian Question in its national, Arab and international context
http://www.passia.org/

Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine: an Australian-based organisation that aims to support a just peace in Palestine
http://www.coalitionforpalestine.org/

Australia Israel and Jewish Affairs Council: an Australian Jewish community organisation that provides regular commentary and analysis of developments in the Middle East, Asia and Australia
http://www.aijac.org.au/

Current events

al-Jazeera: Arabic and English language news service
http://www.aljazeera.com/

Ha’aretz: Israeli daily news service
http://www.haaretz.com/

BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news

The Guardian: Australian news and commentary
http://www.theguardian.com/au

Historical document collections

The Avalon Project: 20th-century documents, 1900 - 1999
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/20th.asp

Internet History Source Book: Middle East since 1944
http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/modsbook54.asp

Chapter 1

Maps that explain the Middle East
http://www.vox.com/a/maps-explain-the-middle-east

Balfour Declaration
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/balfour.asp

Sykes-Picot Map
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-25299553

League of Nations Mandate for Palestine
https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/2FCA2C68106F11AB05256BCF007BF3CB

Before their Diaspora, Institute of Palestinian Studies
http://btd.palestine-studies.org/

Chapter 2

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
https://www.ushmm.org/

Creation of Israel, 1948
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-israel

The plan of partition and the end of the British Mandate
http://www.un.org/depts/dpi/palestine/ch2.pdf

1948: The First Arab-Israeli War, book review
http://www.historytoday.com/james-barker/1948-first-arab-israeli-war

Chapter 3

Suez Crisis (1)
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/suez-crisis

Suez Crisis (2)
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/projects/suez/suez.html

Suez Crisis (3)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/suez_01.shtml

Chapter 4

The United States and the Soviet Union in the Middle East
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/ussovme.htm

Six-Day War
http://www.coldwar.org/articles/60s/SixDayWar.asp

How 1967 defined the Middle East
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6709173.stm

The Six-Day War: causes and consequences
http://www.sixdaywar.org/

Israeli settlements
http://www.bloombergview.com/quicktake/israeli-settlements

Yom Kippur War
http://www.history.com/topics/yom-kippur-war

The Arab-Israeli War of 1973
http://www.historynet.com/the-arab-israeli-war-of-1973-honor-oil-and-blood.htm

Chapter 5

Camp David Accords and the Arab-Israeli peace process
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/camp-david

Oslo explained
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/13/oslo-accords-explained.html

The First Palestinian Intifada
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0230cjr#play

Chapter 6

Iran 1979, Al Jazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/01/iran-1979-revolution-shook-world-2014121134227652609.html

BBC News: In pictures: The Iranian Revolution
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/middle_east_the_iranian_revolution/html/1.stm

Iran-Iraq War
http://www.history.com/topics/iran-iraq-war

Lebanese Civil War
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01tg2fy

1991 Gulf War
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2754103.stm

Chapter 7

The Wye River Memorandum
http://www.unsco.org/Documents/Key/The%20Wye%20River%20Memorandum.pdf

Wednesday 12 September 2001. 145 front pages from 19 countries.
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20150319023141/http://www1.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default_archive.asp?fpArchive=091201

Understanding 9/11
https://archive.org/details/911

Osama bin Laden
http://www.history.com/topics/osama-bin-laden

Al-Aqsa Intifada timeline
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3677206.stm

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