Bibliographie Essay ••• 527Karsh, Arafat's War: The Man and His Battle for Israeli Conquest (New York: Grove
Press, 2003), which is predictably hostile to the late PLO leader. Critical of Israel
are Edward Abboud, Invisible Enemy: Israel, Politics, Media, and American Culture
(Reston, VA: Vox Publishing, 2001), which argues strongly that Israel is not an ally
acting in the American national interest, and a leading Israeli academic, Tanya
Reinhart, Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (New York: Seven Stories
Press, 2002), who describes Israel's policies as fatally flawed. Similar in its argu¬
ments, but much more iconoclastic in its tone, is Richard Ben Cramer, How Israel
Lost: The Four Questions (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004). A symptom of the
fragmentation of Israeli society is the growing reluctance of its soldiers to serve in
the occupied areas. See Ronit Chacham, Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip (New York: Other Press, 2003). Jan Selby, Water,
Power, and Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (New
York: I. B. Tauris, 2003) shows how water figures in the power struggle. See also a
collection of Edward W. Said's essays, published posthumously, From Oslo to Iraq
and the Road Map (New York: Pantheon Books, 2004). We strongly recommend
Bernard Wasserstein, Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop?
2nd ed. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004). Generally sympa¬
thetic to Israel, but conscious of its cultural divisions, is Donna Rosenthal's The
Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land (New York: Perennial, 2003).
An oft-updated account of Israel's struggle with the Palestinians can be found on¬
line at http://www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm. A pro-Palestinian Web site,
http://www.merip.org/palestine-israel_primer/toc-pal-isr-primer.html, is up¬
dated frequently, too. A Palestinian Web site is http://www.alaqsaintifada.org/. For
Israel's account of the uprising, see http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1991to
_now_alaqsa_start.php. On President Mahmud Abbas, see http://www.Jewish
virtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Abbas.html or the many listings at http://
student.cs.ucc.ie/csl064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=366.
Recent books on political Islam include Akbar Ahmed, Islam Today: A Short In¬
troduction to the Muslim World (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2001); Ray¬
mond William Baker, Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2003); Lawrence Davidson, Islamic Fundamental¬
ism: An Introduction (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003); Noah Feldman, After
Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2003); Gilles Keppel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam (Cambridge,
MA: Belknap Press, 2002); Bruce B. Lawrence, Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond
Violence, 3rd ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000); John Miller and
Aaron Kenedi, eds., Inside Islam: The Faith of the People and the Conflicts of the
World's Fastest-Growing Religion (New York: Marlowe, 2002). The British Library
has a bibliography on the Web at http://www.bl.uk/collections/sodal/rdp-islf.html.
Translated Muslim writings appear in John Esposito and John Voll, eds., Makers of