The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies
The book Israel's International Relations: Contexts, Tools, Breakthroughs, and Failures" is a comprehensive volume authored by 18 Palestinian and Arab researchers and former diplomats who are experts in international relations and regional studies.
The book covers Israel's international relations, exploring their historical origins, motives, and transformations. It takes a historical approach and highlights key actors while examining international dynamics, particularly those related to the structure of the international system and power relations.
The contributors of this publication endeavor to address the multifaceted inquiries surrounding Israel's insistence on recognition as a Jewish state. Central among these inquiries is the question of why Israel specifically demands recognition as the national state for the Jewish people from the Palestinians, as opposed to any other nation. Furthermore, the book seeks to elucidate the objectives that Israel seeks to attain through such recognition by the PLO. It also delves into the ramifications that this recognition may have on the Palestinian population and examines the factors that render such recognition an arduous endeavor.
In the book, "National Planning in Israel: Strategies of Hegemony and Exclusion," authored by Yousef Rafiq Jabarin, an insightful exploration is undertaken to unravel the origins and underpinnings of Israeli national planning policies. The book sheds light on the influential figures responsible for shaping these policies and reveals the expansionist and exclusionary ideology that underscores them, exposing various associated complexities and shadows.
Professor Shlomo Sand, a historian at Tel Aviv University, has written a trilogy of books that includes "The Invention of the Jewish People" and "The Invention of the Land of Israel." In his latest book, "How I Stopped Being a Jew: An Israeli Point of View," he examines various Zionist narratives with a critical eye. The book has been translated into Arabic by Antwan Shalhat.
In this concluding volume, Sand subjects numerous Zionist mythologies to historical scrutiny. His previous works have already addressed significant topics: the first volume deconstructs the alleged continuity of Jewish history, while the second volume dismantles the mythological connection between the Jewish people and the land of Palestine, revealing how the "Land of Israel" was transformed from a religious concept into a geopolitical one to justify Zionist colonization.
Ramallah: the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (MADAR) has published a research paper entitled: The settlers’ vision of their status and the political solution of the conflict: from “Gush Emunim” to the Jewish Home (HaBayit HaYehudi), written by Mohanad Mustafa, of 88 pages.
This text discusses the allocation of budgets and economic policies related to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The study focuses on observing the private budgets allocated to settlements by government ministries, analyzing the budgets of local authorities within settlement regions compared to those in other areas, and examining tax laws that provide exemptions and tax privileges to settlers and settlements.
This book analyzes the political scene in Israel in light of the 2013 parliamentary elections, concluding that the elections didn’t succeed in getting Israel out of the state of political instability which is signified by the high frequency of party shifts and the fragmentation of the political map, which leads to a parliament with many small sized blocs, lacking a large bloc that can be a strong pillar for power.
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The Repercussions of the War against Gaza on Israel's Relations with Russia and Turkey: Will There Be Fundamental Changes?
On the collapse of the concept of "moving away from America and the West and replacing them with new friends": "Netanyahu was looking for comfortable political partners, even at the cost of harming Israel's national security."
Israeli Affairs (Issue no. 91)
