Recommended Reading

Most Recent:

• NEWLY ADDED: Daniel Byman in Foreign Policy: Mowing the Grass and Taking Out the Trash (August 25, 2014)
• Times of Israel: Arab League to ask UN to compel Israeli West Bank pullout (August 25, 2014)
• Hussein Ibish in The Middle East Policy Journal: Indispensable but Elusive: Palestinian National Reunification (August 23, 2014)
• Times of Israel: "Three Questions for the Prime Minister" by Naomi Chazan (August 11, 2014)
• President Obama on Gaza Ceasefire, ending the blockade, etc (final Q&A in the transcript) (August 6, 2014)
• Time for Netanyahu to make peace in Gaza by David Ignatius. (August 5, 2014)
• NY Times: "Start with Gaza" by Roger Cohen (August 5, 2014)
• Peter Beinart in Haaretz: Gaza myths and facts: what American Jewish leaders won't tell you (July 30, 2014)
• Roger Cohen in The New York Times: Zionism and Its Discontents (July 29, 2014)
• Naomi Chazan in Times of Israel: Tunnel vision (July 28, 2014)
• Dahlia Scheindlin in The Forward: Israel's Conflict Has a Past — and a Future (July 27, 2014)
• David Grossman in the New York Times: An Israel Without Illusions (July 27, 2014)
• David Grossman in Yedioth Achronoth: Thinking Outside the Bubble (July 27, 2014)
• Mira Sucharov in Haaretz: It isn't easy being an Israeli leftist during wartime (extensively quoting Peace Now's Lior Amihai) (July 26, 2014)
• Prince Turki Al Faisal in Al-Monitor: Israel's actions in Gaza trample hopes of Arab Peace Initiative (July 25, 2014)

APN Publications on The Gaza-Israel Crisis

Today's News Nosh - Special Section: The Gaza Crisis

• Etgar Keret in The New Yorker: Israel’s Other War (July 25, 2014)
• Spiegel Interview with Yuval Diskin: Ex-Israeli Security Chief Diskin: 'All the Conditions Are There for an Explosion' (July 24, 2014)
• Roger Cohen in the New York Times: Hope in the Abattoir (July 24, 2014)
• Times of Israel (AP): Egypt suggests restarting peace talks as part of ceasefire bid (July 22, 2014)
• Yitzhak Benhorin in YNet: Obama sends Kerry to Cairo to help truce efforts (July 21, 2014)
• Barak Ravid in Haaretz: Obama to Netanyahu: U.S. seeks immediate cease-fire (July 20, 2014)
• Jodi Rudoren and Fares Akram in The New York Times: Netanyahu Warns of Wider Israel Operation in Gaza (July 18, 2014).
• Zvi Bar'el in Haaretz: Hamas wages a lonely war, giving Israel the opportunity to boost Abbas' standing. (July 18, 2014).
• Haviv Rettig Gur in The Times of Israel: The tragic self-delusion behind the Hamas war (July 17, 2014)
• Times of Israel: Abbas, Sissi urge immediate Gaza ceasefire (July 17, 2014)
• Jodi Rudoren and Anne Barnard in the New York Times: Israeli Military Invades Gaza, With Sights Set on Hamas Operations (July 17, 2014)
• Batsheva Sobelman, Rushdi abu Alouf and Henry Chu in The Chicago Tribune Israel pounds northern Gaza Strip after warning residents to flee (July 13, 2014)
• +972 Magazine Live blog: Escalation in Gaza - July 2014
• Live Updates at Haaretz on the Gaza crisis
• Btselem Press Release: Bombing family homes of activists in armed Palestinian groups violates international humanitarian law (July 9, 2014)
• Noam Sheizaf at +972 Magazine: 'They left us no choice': On military escalation and its Israeli rationale (July 9, 2014)
• Larry Derfner at +972 Magazine: How Netanyahu provoked this war with Gaza (July 9, 2014)
• Amos Yadlin at the The Institute for National Security Studies: Operation Protective Edge: The Goals, and the Strategy to Achieve Them. (July 9, 2014)
• Benedetta Berti for Sada at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Hamas and Israel at the Brink. (July 8, 2014)
• David Grossman at Haaretz Israel Conference for Peace: On hope and despair in the Middle East. (July 8, 2014)
• Nahum Barnea at YNet: Escalation at Hamas' request (July 8, 2014).
• Ron Ben-Yishai at YNet: Hamas talks truce terms, but Israel balks (July 6, 2014)

From the Archives: Below is background reading from previous rounds of Gaza-Israel fighting:

• Full text: Terms of Israel-Palestinian cease-fire (Washington Post, 11/21/12)
• America And This Ceasefire (Ali Gharib at the Daily Beast, 11/21/12)
• A Gaza cease-fire: historic or futile? (Rami Khoury in the Daily Star, 11/21/12)
• Arab, Muslim, Israeli -- and under fire (Matti Friedman in the Times of Israel, 11/20/12)
• How this could be the last Gaza war (Khaled el Gindy at CNN, 11/20/12)
• The Middle East Won't Be Ignored (Akiva Eldar in the National Interest, 11/20/12)
• Israel and Gaza Trapped in Tragic Tape Loop (APN Board Member Leonard Fein in the Forward, 11/20/12)
• How Israel Could Really Harm Hamas (Peter Beinart at the Daily Beast, 11/20/12)
• Gaza Without End  (Roger Cohen in the New York Times, 11/20/12)
• Before the next baby dies (Izzeldin Abu el-Aish in Ynet, 11/20/12)
• Hamas's Illegitimacy (New York Times editorial, 11/9/12)
• The way out is the hardest (Nahum Barnea in Ynet, 11/19/12)
• Weaken Hamas through diplomacy (Ami Ayalon in Haaretz, 11/19/12)
• Israel's new Gaza honeymoon with Obama (and why it may not last very long) (Chemi Shalev in Haaretz, 11/19/12)
• WATCH: Israeli analyst and Arab MK clash over Gaza assault (Ami Kauffman at +972, 11/19/12)
• A plea to Israel from the right: End the Gaza war now (Bradley Burston in Haaretz, 11/19/12)
• The ongoing failure of Israel's military thinking  (Yagil Levy in Haaretz, 11/18/12)
• Give Mideast Peace One More Chance (Doni Remba at Open Zion, 11/17/12)
• Why Israel's Gaza Campaign Is Doomed (Janine Zacharia at Slate, 11/16/12)
• Living By The Sword (Daniel Levy at Open Zion, 11/16/12)
• Israel's Airstrike Gamble (Matt Duss at the American Prospect, 11/16/12)
• I'm Losing Hope for a Peaceful Israel (Jessica Apple in the New York Times, 11/16/12)
• Israel's Shortsighted Assassination (Gershon Baskin in the New York Times, 11/16/12)
• An endless war (Eitan Haber in Ynet, 11/15/12)
• A Gaza ground invasion will end badly (Meir Javedanfar in the Times of Israel, 11/15/12)
• Israel's Strategic Vacuum (Haim Assa in Maariv  11/15/12, translated in Al-Monitor)
• Gaza - the first Netanyahu war (Yossi Verter at Haaretz, 11/15/12)
• Another Israel-Gaza War? (New York Times editorial, 11/14/12)
• Gaza Expert Warns of Large Escalation (Adam Chandler at Tablet, 11/14/12)
• Operation Cast Lead 2.0 (Hussein Ibish at Foreign Policy, 11/14/12)
• Israel killed its subcontractor in Gaza (Aluf Benn in Haaretz, 11/14/12)
• Strategic Dimensions Of Attacking Gaza (Yossi Alpher at Open Zion, 11/14/12)

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