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Book recommendations for reading on Palestine with overviews or access to the content:

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917 - 2017 by Rashid Khalidi

The Palestinian - Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Bunton

Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine edited by Diana Allan

Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

The Palestine Laboratory - How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

On Palestine by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé

A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Huraini (Afterword by Malise Ruthven for later editions)

At times, the original flora [of Palestine] manages to return in surprising ways. Pine trees were planted not only over bulldozed houses, but also over fields and olive groves. In the new development town of Migdal Ha-Emek, for example, the JNF did its utmost to try and cover the ruins of the Palestinian village of Mujaydil, at the town’s eastern entrance, with rows of pine trees, not a proper forest in this case but just a small wood. Such ‘green lungs’ can be found in many of Israel’s development towns that cover destroyed Palestinian villages (Tirat Hacarmel over Tirat Haifa, Qiryat Shemona over Khalsa, Ashkelon over Majdal, etc.). But this particular species failed to adapt to the local soil and, despite repeated treatment, disease kept afflicting the trees. Later visits by relatives of some of Mujaydial’s original villagers revealed that some of the pine trees had literally split in two and how, in the middle of their broken trunks, olive trees had popped up in defiance of the alien flora planted over them fifty-six years ago.

—Ilan Pappé, from The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine