History of Asia

We talk about Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan 1990-today.
Notice any mistakes? Let me know, please!

A few datapoints:
1987 start first intifada
1988 establishment of Hamas
1988 PLO recognizes Israël
1989 Taif Agreement
1993 Oslo Accords1996 First Palestinian elections, Hamas boycots2000 Israel withdraws from Lebanon. Start second intifada.2004 Arafat dies2005 Cedar Revolution
2006 Hamas wins parliamentary elections. Violence Hamas-Fatah. Israel invades Lebanon.
2007 Palestinian civil war. Hamas takes power in Gaza. 2012 UN observer status for Palestine but sanctions
2018 start political crisis Israel
2020 financial crisis Libanon2022 Netanyahu leads most rightwing government ever2023 Hamas attack followed by Gaza war. 2024 attack on Hezbollah causes death Nasrallah. Fall Assad. 2025 Iran-Israel war

Sources for this series (more will be added later):
The Economist often for current affairs (cited when relevant)
ABICHT L. Israël, Palestina. ABICHT LUDO. Delalniettemin: over Joodse wijsheid en humor
ARNES I. Historische atlas van het jodendom : de bewogen geschiedenis van het joodse geloof in kaart gebracht.Librero, Kerkdriel, 2012, 400 p. BLACK I. Enemies and neighbours. Arabs and Jews in Palistine and Israel, 1917-2017. Alan Lane, s.l., 2017, 605 p.
BLOK ARTHUR. Morgen misschien: waarom de problemen in Libanon niet worden opgelost.
COOGAN M. The Oxford History of the Biblical World. Oxford University Press, 2001, 508 p.
DAVIES W.D., HORBURY W., STURDY J. The Cambridge History of Judaism EVERS LOU: jodendom, een heldere inleiding.HINCHCLIFFE P., MILTON-EDWARDS B. Jordan. A Hashemite LegacyHIRSCHFELD H. Kernpunten van hetIsraelisch-Palestijns conflict,
HARRIS W., Lebanon a history. Oxford University Press.
JOHNSON P. Ahistory of the Jews. Londen, Phoenix, 2004, 643 p.

MASALHA N. Palestine:a four thousand year history. Zed Books, Londen, 2018, 459 p.
SCHAMA S. De geschiedenis van deJoden
LEVY RACHEL. Israël op een doordeweekse dag.

ROBINS P. AHistory of Jordan, University of Oxford, Oxford. 2004, 266 p.

SAND SCHLOMO. The invention of the land of Israel: from holy land to Homeland
SOETERIK R. De verwoesting vanPalestina. Van der Horst, Pieter Willem. Het joodse koninkrijk Himyar en de christelijke martelaars van Nadiran: joden en christenen in Arabië in de zesde eeuw. Van Diggele, Els. "We haten elkaar meer dan de joden: tweedracht in de Palestijnse maatschappij. "VAN MIDDEN PIET: Israël, een wereld apart: een geschiedenis van 3000 jaar op leven en dood

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We talk about Assyria (and to a lesser extent Babylonia) during the Iron Age.