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Lots and lots of places. I don't have them all here now.
What you really need to do, however, is read books from all sides. Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens are good for your completely biased Palestinian side (no, really - read these guys - they are amazing in that they ignore reality - but they will provide a Palestinian view). Noam Chomsky is also unreal in his ability to propagandize.
I actually don't read much Israeli propaganda. I know it exists, and I read a guy the other day, but he was a fucking nutjob and I just sorta closed the browser.
As for everything I quoted above, it's all in the record if you dig deep enough.
The problem is (and I'm being honest here) many sources buy into the anti-Semitic rhetoric of people like Chomsky and Said (I haven't read enough Hitchens; I think he's just strongly misguided). It really is a bigger problem than you might realize. A good eye opener is Dershowitz's <i>The Case for Israel</i>, which is a pretty lucid overview of what's going on. It doesn't claim that Israel is perfect - it just points out the bullshit.
I responded the way I did because it's time to stamp out this bullshit. Israel isn't perfect, but it's far better than many people believe. As Dershowitz says, "It's the Jew among nations."
(By the way, I appreciate your open attitude. I'm used to people who don't have one - like tw or jaguar, for instance - and it perhaps puts a bit of nasty in my posts.)
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