Israeli-Palestinian War

Anthony H. Cordesman is Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a military analyst for ABC News. A frequent commentator on National Public Radio, he is the author of numerous books on security issues and has served in a number of senior positions in the US government.

• Introduction From Peace to War: Land for Peace or Settlements for War? From Peace to War: Terrorism for Settlements The Final Settlement Issues: Asymmetric Values and Asymmetric Warfare The Collapse of the Peace Process The Actors in the Conflict: The Israeli Defense Forces The Actors in the Conflict: The Palestinian Factions that Challenge Peace and the Palestinian Authority The Outside Actors that Have Shaped the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Fighting and Failed Peace Efforts Casualty Trends and the Costs of the War The IDF Focus on Isolation, Containment, and the Selective Use of Conventional Military Power The Palestinian Response: The Battle for Public Opinion and the Challenge of Reforming the Palestinian Authority The Course of Conflict in Gaza The Course of the Conflict in the West Bank and "Greater Jerusalem" Conflict in Israel Proper The Continuing Hope for Peace: The Quartet and the "Road Map"

"Most of Cordesman's books are thick both in pages and substance. This book, with its comprehensive coverage enhanced by copious tables, maps, and chronologies certainly is. Cordesman has written two earlier books on Israel and the Arabs, but this is his first venture to concentrate even more narrowly on Israel and the Palestinians. And concentrate this book does. This book is no overview of Israel and the Palestinians going back to 1948. The war of the title is that which began with the al Aqsa intifada in September 2000, but the book's coverage of events starts with the first intifada, which began in 1987. Narrative chapters are interspersed with thematic treatments of everything from the tactics of this asymmetrical war to the role of different actors (including the Israel Defense Forces, the Palestinian Authority, Fatah, and Hamas)....This is a solid reference work." - Foreign Affairs