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When reading about Israel and Palestine I quickly decided I needed overviews of both Jewish and Arab history, going back millennia, just to establish the mentality of the historical actors involved.I’m beginning to understand why there isn’t more 20th Century Middle Eastern based Alternate History because the minute you go ‘What If Nasser was assassinated in 1954?’ you open a box of all sorts of different ideas, people and events related and now changed due to this.
I can now see why @SpanishSpy read a number of books to talk about Israeli-Palestine conflict for the Alternate History podcast.
I also found I needed a decent understanding of British and Ottoman politics circa World War I, as well as smatterings of Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian politics. You also need to have a decent understanding of the Lebanese Civil War. Some American politics in regards to the Middle East also helps.
I'm probably forgetting something.