The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy Stephanie Gutmann (Encounter Books) Journalist Stephanie Gutmann reveals the realities behind the media’s coverage of the Middle East conflict and how the international press corps has become a key player in the media war being waged against Israel.   Buy at Amazon.com

Covering the Intifada Joshua Muravchik (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) A review of the biased coverage of ten key episodes in the conflict, between 9/00 and 4/02.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News Bernard Goldberg (Regnery) Award-winning broadcast journalist reveals a corporate news culture in which "entertainment" trumps journalistic integrity. A best-seller.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer (PublicAffairs) The former Soviet refusenik and current Israeli cabinet minister argues persuasively that the future of humanity depends on the democratization and liberalization of tyrannical regimes.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

The Missing Peace : The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace Dennis Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) An insider's account of the Mideast peace process from 1988 to the breakdown of talks in 2001, when Yasser Arafat walked away from an agreement.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land Donna Rosenthal (Free Press) Journalist Rosenthal gives an in-depth look at the rich variety of people who live in the state of Israel.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Claim of Dispossession: Jewish Land Settlement and the Arabs, 1878-1948 Aryeh Avneri (Transaction Publishers) Meticulously documented account debunks the myth that Jewish settlers 'dispossessed' Arabs from present-day Israel.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars Yaacov Lozowick (Doubleday Books) Refutes dozens of pernicious myths about the conflict and its moral and historical underpinnings.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Israel: Life in the Shadow of Terror Edited by Nechemia Coopersmith and Shraga Simmons (Targum Press) A collection of 75 powerful essays: first-person accounts of terror attacks, examining the pivotal issues surrounding the conflict, and the deeper importance of the Land of Israel.   Buy at Amazon.com

The Case for Israel Alan Dershowitz (John Wiley & Sons) Harvard Law professor conclusively refutes thirty-two separate slurs and misrepresentations directed toward Israel in recent years.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Six Days of War Michael Oren (Oxford UP) Detailed account of the 1967 Six Day War - scholarly, yet highly readable.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Arafat's War Ephraim Karsh (Grove) Comprehensive account of the collapse of the Oslo peace effort, due to Yasser Arafat's unrelenting commitment to Israel's annihilation.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict Mitchell Bard (American-Israeli Coop. Ent.) Covers every aspect of the Israeli-Arab conflict from the Mandate period through the violence of September 2000. See text online at: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

A Durable Peace: Israel and its Place Among the Nations Benjamin Netanyahu (Warner Books) The former prime minister eloquently presents Israel's unique security needs and the necessity for retaining portions of land captured in 1967.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century Martin Gilbert (John Wiley & Sons) Renowned historian presents dramatic testimony of the division of Jerusalem in 1948, and its reunification in the Six Day War.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Israel: A History Martin Gilbert (Morrow) Comprehensive overview of the Zionist enterprise: its roots, growth, and hurdles.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Fabricating Israeli History: The New Historians Efraim Karsh (Intl Specialized Book Service) A response to revisionist writings that distort the creation of the State of Israel, particularly regarding the Palestinian refugee issue.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

The $36 Billion Bargain: Strategy and Politics in U.S. Assistance to Israel A.F.K. Organski (Columbia University Press) Demonstrates Israel's importance as a key American ally in the fight for democracy and against radical Arab states.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism Conor Cruise O'Brien (Simon & Schuster) Definitive overview of 20th century Israeli history.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

The Forgotten Millions: The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands Malka Hillel Shulewitz (Cassell Academic) Compelling discussion of the pogroms and expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab North Africa and the Middle East between 1941 and 1976.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Locked Doors: The Seizure of Jewish Property in Arab Countries Itamar Levin, Rachel Neiman (Translator) Examines brutal persecution of Jews in Arab countries, particularly on the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine Samuel Katz (Bantam) Though slightly obsolete on a few issues, this remains a valuable, comprehensive study of the Arab-Israeli conflict.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

The Return of Anti-Semitism Gabriel Schoenfeld (Encounter Books) Documents the recent return of 'the oldest hatred', in the Muslim world, Europe, and the U.S.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

History on Trial : My Day in Court with David Irving Deborah E. Lipstadt (Ecco) Prof. Lipstadt's personal, riveting chronicle of the legal battle with a notorious Holocaust denier.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

A History of the Jews Paul Johnson (HarperCollins) Renowned Christian historian begins with the Bible and ends with the establishment of the State of Israel, examining both historical and philosophical trends.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

The Destruction of the European Jews Raul Hilberg (Yale Univ Press) Representing a lifetime of research, this book shaped the entire field of Holocaust studies.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Why the Jews?: The Reason for Anti-Semitism Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin (Touchstone Books) Discards conventional explanations of anti-Semitism to argue that its root causes are, paradoxically, the very convictions that have ensured Jewish survival: the Jewish conceptions of God, law, and peoplehood.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us Steven Emerson (Free Press) Foremost expert on Islamic terrorism shows how Hamas and Islamic Jihad has grown an extensive network in the United States, and how American organizations helped recruit for the ranks of Osama bin Laden.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists Benjamin Netanyahu (Noonday Press) The former prime minister demonstrates that when concessions are made, terrorists temporarily lay off but then up the ante with more demands.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Militant Islam Reaches America Daniel Pipes (Norton) An alarming insight into radical Islam and the nurturing in the US of the terrorist threat.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam Bat Ye'or (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press) Excellent primer on the history of Muslim anti-Semitism, with important implications for contemporary Arab hostility toward Jews and Israel.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Islam and the West Bernard Lewis (Oxford University Press) Examines the issues of fundamentalism, religious co-existence, and modernity in the Muslim world.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk

Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey Fouad Ajami (Vintage Books) Examines how Muslim fundamentalism has restricted the introduction of modernity and secularism into the Arab world.   Buy at Amazon.com         Buy at Amazon.co.uk