Israel-Palestine Explained

Israel-Palestine Explained
A Rigorous Guide to a Long-Running Conflict
by Lorenzo Llorente

If you want Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Jerusalem and the West Bank explained with clarity, rigour and humanity, this is the book you were looking for.

It follows history, international law, geopolitics and everyday life from the origins to the present day with one ambitious aim: that you can form your own view from verifiable facts and documented sources.

What sets this book apart

• Worked impartiality: not empty "both-sidesism", but fair distance. All voices are heard, judgements are attributed, and claims are checked.

• Verified data: figures and series (data cut-off date 20 September 2025) drawn from the UN, OCHA, UNRWA, the ICJ, the ICC, the WFP, national ministries and statistical offices, think tanks with public methodologies, and human-rights documentation.

• Readable rigour: a detailed chronology, an A-Z glossary, "Myth-Fact-Nuance" tables, and 120 self-check questions to fix key concepts.

• Narrative + method: each chapter sets out what happened, who decided what, and within which legal limits - and ends with a single distilled line that holds the keys.

What you'll learn

• History without shortcuts: from ancient roots to Balfour; from the British Mandate to 1948; from 1967 to the Intifadas; from Gaza 2005 to the present.

• Geography that explains politics: maps that locate borders, Areas A/B/C, crossings and barriers so that the legal discussion makes sense.

• International law, in plain English: proportionality, occupation, war crimes and crimes against humanity, genocide, and the status of Jerusalem - explained precisely, with examples.

• How numbers are built: where casualty, displacement and damage figures come from, how they are verified, and why they sometimes diverge.

• Today in context: Gaza, Lebanon (Hezbollah), the Red Sea, and their regional and global implications.

For every reader

• Beginners: understand why this did not "start yesterday".

• Intermediates: get the legal frameworks that order the debates.

• Advanced readers: value the source-triangulation and annexes as a reference tool.

Why you can trust this book
Every sensitive assertion is attributed, dated and cross-checked. Where there is disagreement, it is explained; when better data emerge, they are updated with a note. To understand is not to excuse - it is to know where we stand so that we can argue better.

A book that changes how you read the news.
Afterwards you will follow Israel-Palestine with a compass: you will recognise the historical references, the legal language, the routes on the map, and the logic behind the numbers. It will not tell you what to think; it will give you the tools to think better.

If you want a reliable guide to Israel-Palestine built on data and method, this is it. Open a page, choose a map, consult the glossary - and begin, without shouting.