See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections.

Contents

• Israel and Palestine
  • Zionism
  • The British Mandate
  • The Establishment of the State of Israel
  • Israeli Soceity
  • The Palestinians
• Turkey
• Egypt
• Algeria
• Iran
• Kurds

Israel and Palestine

• WEB Jewish History Sourcebook
• WEB Islamic History Sourcebook
• WEB Documents Relating to the Middle East [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Political Islam [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB United Nations Security Council Resolutions Relating to the Middle East [At Yale]
• Zionism
  • Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): On the Jewish State, 1896, excerpts [At this Site]
  • Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): The Jewish State, 1896 [At this Site]
  • H. Sacher, A Jewish Palestine, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1919, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
• The British Mandate
  • The Balfour Declaration, 1917 [At this Site]
  • League of Nations: The Mandate for Palestine, July 24, 1922 [At this Site]
  • A.J. Balfour (1848-1930): Defense of the Palestine Mandate, 1922 [At this Site]
  • Sir Henry McMahon: Letter to Ali ibn Husain, 1915 [At this Site]
    British promises to Arab leaders during World War I.
• The Establishment of the State of Israel
  • WEB Documents on US Recognition of Israel [At Truman Library]
  • Hatikvah: Israeli National Anthem and midi file [At Jewish Virtual Library]
  • 2ND Anita Shapira: Historiography and Memory: Latrun, 1948, Jewish Social Studies Volume 3, Number 1  [At Internet Archive, from JSS]
  • United Nations Resolution 181, 1947 [At Yale]
  • UN General Assembly Resolution 181: The Partition of Palestine, November 29, 1947 [At this Site]
  • Israeli Declaration of Independence, 1948 [At Yale]
  • Israel Basic Laws 1960-1994 [At ICL]
  • President Eisenhower: The Eisenhower Doctrine on the Middle
  • TASS: Statement on the Eisenhower Doctrine, January 14 1957 [At this Site]
• Israeli Society
  • Yehoshua Zamir: Survival is Not Enough [At Eserver]
    An Israeli reflects on the Lebanon war.
  • Jonathan Mahler: Uprooting the Past: Israel's New Historians Take a Hard Look at Their Nation's Past, August 1997 [Modern Account][At Lingua Franca]
• The Palestinians
  • The Palestinian National Charter, 1968 [At Yale]
  • Hamas Covenant, 1988 [At Yale]

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Turkey

• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1932): Speech, at the National Convention of the People's Party of the Republic, in Ankara between 15- 20 October, 1927. [At Internet Archive, from ataturk.turkiye.com]
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1932): Address to Turkish Youth [Turkish and English][At Turkish Language]

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Egypt

• Soviet Reaction to the Baghdad Pact, 1955   [At this Site]
• President Nasser: Denouncement of the Proposal for a Canal Users' Association, 1956  [At this Site]
• Anwar el Sadat: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the World Mission of the Peoples of Africa and Asia, 1957  [At this Site]
• Tahâ Hussein: From The Future of Culture in Egypt,   excerpts,1954 [At this Site]

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Algeria

• WEB Algeria [At Mt. Holyoke]
• Proclamation of Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), November 1, 1954 [At Historical Text Archive]
• Charles de Gaulle, French Premier: Speech at Constantine, Algeria, October 3, 1958 [At this Site]
• The Islamic Salvation Front National Provisional Executive Bureau:
  Communique No. 42, Algiers, November 14 1993 [At Historical Text Archive]
• 2NDWilliam Lewis, "Algeria at the Brink," Strategic Forum, National Defense University, Number 32, June, 1995  [At NDU]

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Iran

• Ayatollah Khomeini: The Uprising of Khurdad 15, 1979 [At this Site]
• V.S. Naipaul: Among the Believers, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1981, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  Shia Islam in Revolutionary Iran.

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Kurds

• Robert Kaplan: Sons of Devils, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1987  [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  On Kurdish identity.
• Laurie Mylroie: After Saddam Hussein, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1992 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  On the Kurds in the Middle East.

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