Six Books to Read on the Israel-Palestine Conflict

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. By David Fromkin. Holt, Henry & Company; 688 pages; $26

Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017. By Ian Black. Atlantic Monthly Press; 608 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. By Rashid Khalidi. Beacon Press; 288 pages; $19.95. Oneworld Publications; £34.99

Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement. By Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell. Wiley; 340 pages; $36.95. Polity Press; £24.99

The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron. By Colin Shindler. Cambridge University Press; 440 pages; $38.99 and £29.99

It’s Easier to Reach Heaven than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir. By Emma Williams. Olive Branch Press; 412 pages; $16. Bloomsbury; £8.99