Bibliographie Essay ••• 515Elon, The Israelis: Founders and Sons, rev. ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 1983).
The history of Zionism is covered by Shlomo Avineri, The Making of Modern Zion¬
ism (New York: Basic Books, 1981); Simha Flapan, Zionism and the Palestinians
(London: Croom Helm, 1979); Rafael Medoff, Zionism and the Arabs: An American
Jewish Dilemma, 1898-1948 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997); and three histories by
David Vital: The Origins of Zionism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980),
Zionism: The Formative Years (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), and Zionism: The
Crucial Phase (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987). Complementary readings appear
in Arthur Hertzberg, éd., The Zionist Idea (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Soci¬
ety, 1997). The Jewish studies program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has
an excellent Web site, whose new URL will be http://www.dinur.org. On Israel's
history up to December 1988, see http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/iltoc.html.
The politicization of Palestine's Arabs can be traced in Yehoshua Porath's The
Emergence of the Palestinian National Movement, 1918-1929 (Jerusalem: Hebrew
University Press, 1973), and The Palestine Arab National Movement, 1929-1939,
Vol. 2: From Riots to Rebellion (London: Frank Cass, 1978). See also Baruch Kim-
merling and Joel Migdal, The Palestinian People: A History (Cambridge, MA: Har¬
vard University Press, 2003); Philip Mattar, The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin
al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement, 2nd ed. (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1992); and Muhammad Y. Muslih, The Origins of Palestinian Na¬
tionalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988). These may be supple¬
mented by Walid Khalidi, ed., From Haven to Conquest (Beirut: Institute for
Palestine Studies, 1971). See also the works by Antonius and Tibawi, already cited,
as well as Sami Hadawi, Bitter Harvest: Palestine Between 1914 and 1967 (New York:
New World Press, 1961); and Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction
of Modern National Consciousness (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Favoring Palestine's Arabs is David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots
of Violence in the Middle East, 2nd ed. (London and Boston: Faber & Faber, 1984).
On Palestinian women during this period, see Ellen L. Fleischmann, The Nation
and Its "New" Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948 (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2003). A documented Palestinian Web site with
links is http://www.palestine-net.com/history/.
The last days of British policy in Palestine are covered by Yehuda Bauer, From
Diplomacy to Resistance: A History of Jewish Palestine, 1939-1945 (New York:
Atheneum, 1973); Michael J. Cohen, Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982); Martin Jones, Failure in Palestine:
British and US Policy After the Second World War (London and New York: Mansell,
1986); William Roger Louis and Robert W. Stookey, End of the Palestine Mandate
(London: Tauris, 1986); Richie Ovendale, Britain, the US, and the End of the Pales¬
tine Mandate (London: Royal Historical Society, 1989). On US support for Zion¬
ism, read Peter M. Grose, Israel in the Mind of America (New York: Knopf, 1983),
and as a counterargument read Lawrence Davidson, America's Palestine: Popular