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Regardless of what you think about modern day Israel, I would like to suggest an amazing fiction book about the history of that land.

It's called The Source by James A. Michener. One of my favorites of all time.

Very glad to hear people are listening to your series in light of current events. I was raised to fully support (not question) one side and failed for years to educate myself because each source was missing big pieces. Combining macro and micro emotional elements with big picture history really allowed my brain to absorb information I had previously been very resistant to.

And in your Jonestown series, Paul Berman’s pieces on the 60’s radical left answered questions I didn’t know I had. But I very badly needed to have. The parts about “suffering from an illegitimacy complex and “taking radical politics in with their mothers milk” were two very impactful ideas.

Id like to recommend 2 books. Neither are exceptionally written, but they have interesting perspectives (development of religion, social interactions of inner circle in turn-of-century radical anarchism group)

https://www.amazon.com/Source-James-Michener/dp/0449211479

https://www.akpress.org/catalog/product/view/id/2635/s/storm-in-my-heart/

Whilst it's not about the conflict itself, The Source, by James Mitchener, is a fascinating book about the middle east. It weaves history with short stories, and gives a fantastic flavour of the middle east and the history of judaism.

It's genuinely one of the most enthralling books I've read - whilst it's not going to make you a super accurate israel/palestine expert, it makes you appreciate that conflict in the middle east has been an ongoing reality for centuries, and it's not as dry as academic work.