I would like to make my own opinion of the subject without being biased by the media of all sides. So a specific history book or any academical work as neutral and precise as possible would be the best. Thank you in advance.
The problem will be finding biased free books on a fairly heated topic. I took a Seminar course in college on the conflict taught by a Lebanese-American who although he tried to stay as neutral as possible still probably had a Palestinian bias in his personal opinion. Anyway the two books we used were Palestinian Identity by Rashid Khalidi and Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Charles Smith. From what I remember the second book was pretty good because it had a large number of first hand documents.