Index: People, M

• Mahdi Ben-Barka — Moroccan opposition leader assassinated in Paris in 1965 with Mossad technical help, in Zonder’s article in Peace, Peace’s Appendix 4.
• Mahmoud Abbas — Arafat’s fellow Oslo negotiator and successor as Israel’s Palestinian partner after 2005, in Makdisi’s account.
• Mahmoud Darwish — Palestinian poet of Identity Card, the poem Said calls the closest thing to a Palestinian national poem.
• Mahmoud Khalil — Green-card holder and former Columbia student whose arrest over allegedly distributing pro-Hamas propaganda Stern cites against the administration’s foreign-policy threat claim.
• Mahmoud Sarsak — Palestine National Football Team member held as an “unlawful combatant” whose hunger strike continued after the May 2012 settlement.
• Malcolm X — Black American leader whose anticolonial writings on Palestine, including “Zionist Logic” (1964), are treated in Petersen-Smith’s chapter.
• Mano Friedman — Minorities ministry representative in Safad who helped spare Jish yet delivered Kufr Bir’im’s evacuation order a week after counting its people, in Manna’s account.
• Marc Lamont Hill — Black academic fired by CNN the day after his November 28, 2018 UN speech for Palestinian solidarity.
• Marjorie Taylor Greene — Representative who opposed the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 on religious-freedom grounds over the deicide example.
• Mark Pearlmutter — PAMA letter organiser whose 70-75 percent children-operated claim Debunking the Genocide Allegations tests against GMOH hospital figures.
• Martin Buber — Philosopher whose 1911 Drei Reden ueber das Judentum gave German Zionism its doctrine of a community of blood, in Brenner’s account.
• Martin Indyk — United States special envoy appointed by Kerry in July 2013; Falk treats the appointment as proof the mediation framework is partisan.
• Martin Luther King — Civil rights leader whose “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and presence at Ghana’s independence exemplify Black internationalism.
• Marwan Barghouti — Imprisoned Fatah leader whose two-state terms (1967 borders, East Jerusalem capital, full Resolution 194, all settlements removed) Falk contrasts with the American conception.
• Mas’ad Qassis — Catholic notable of Mi’lya brought back from Lebanon by Bishop Hakim into the Knesset in 1951, whose refusal to yield his seat in 1956 showed the bishop’s grip on the Democratic list, in Manna’s account.
• Maurice Challe — French Deputy Chief of Staff who proposed the pre-arranged Sèvres “scenario” of an Israeli attack and Anglo-French intervention, per Bar-On.
• Max Nordau — Zionist leader whose 1920 Albert Hall speech, printed as an epigraph in Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, offered Britain Jewish guard duty over the Suez Canal and the route to India.
• Maxime Rodinson — Writer quoted by Said tying Zionist indifference to the natives to European supremacy, and the imperialist connection to Palestine being inhabited by another people.
• Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta — Interviewer of Barghouti in Chapter 16 of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, whose Refusing to Be Enemies interviewees all endorsed some form of BDS.
• Meir Amit — Mossad head in the Ben-Barka affair; as Staff Directorate chief in 1953 he transmitted the Qibya operation order.
• Meir Kahane — American-born rabbi, founder of the Jewish Defense League and of Kach, elected to the Knesset in 1984 on an overtly racist platform, in Lustick’s account.
• Meir Yaari — Mapam leader and Israeli “peace movement” president whose 7 November 1956 Knesset speech justified Operation Sinai and Gaza’s annexation as “liberation”.
• Menachem Begin — Israeli premier from May 1977, former Irgun head, whose admitted Deir Yassin terrorism Said presents as transmuted into statesmanship by the liberal consensus.
• Menachem Kasher — Rabbi and scholar whose messianic tracts classifying the period as the Great Era had an enormous impact on Gush Emunim’s core and periphery, in Lustick’s account.
• Meron Benvenisti — Former deputy mayor of Jerusalem quoted by Makdisi on boundaries drawn for “a maximum of vacant space with a minimum of Arabs”; in Lustick, the analyst of the de facto annexation and subsidized-settlement strategy.
• Michael Assaf — Mapai’s Middle East academic in Davar, a voice of the emotional-hatred reading of the conflict.
• Michael Ben-Yair — Former Israeli attorney general quoted by Barghouti (2002) describing Israel as a colonial society that established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories.
• Michael Merryman-Lotze — Co-editor of Light in Gaza (2022) with Abusalim and Bing.
• Michael Spagat — Scholar whose December 2024-January 2025 Gaza family survey with Khalil Shikaki is used and criticised in Debunking the Genocide Allegations.
• Michal Schatz — Co-editor of From the River to the Sea (2023).
• Michel Mitri — Jaffa Arab workers’ federation president assassinated by the Mufti’s group in the early 1930s.
• Michelle Alexander — Author of The New Jim Crow whose 2019 column “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine” declared “my conscience leaves me no choice”.
• Mohamed Morsi — Egyptian president who brokered the November 2012 Gaza ceasefire, in Falk’s assessment the key diplomatic figure of that ceasefire.
• Mohammad Jalud — Izbat Jalud farmer cut off from his plot by the wall in 2003 and caught in the seam-zone gate-assignment trap of 2004–2005, in Makdisi’s account.
• Mohammed El-Kurd — Palestinian writer, author of “Western journalists have blood on their hands” and “No Moses in Siege” in From the River to the Sea.
• Mona el-Farra — Gaza doctor whose February 2007 exit attempts through Erez and Allenby Bridge, rescued only by Irish embassy intervention, open Makdisi’s “Outside In”.
• Mordechai Bar-On — Dayan’s adjutant whose Etgar ve-tigra records the 1956 Vermars meeting and the origin of the Sèvres scenario, excerpted in Peace, Peace’s appendices.
• Mordechai Bentov — Mapam minister who opposed the Sinai invasion proposal yet announced full responsibility for it, and restated Mapam’s refugee position in the 1961 Cabinet.
• Mordechai Eliash — Jerusalem lawyer, counsel to the Yishuv’s institutions, under whom Agranat clerked and learned Mandatory Palestine’s legal system, in Lahav’s account.
• Mordechai Maklef — Carmeli Brigade operations officer who orchestrated the cleansing of Haifa with orders to kill any Arab encountered, later Israeli Chief of Staff, in Pappe’s account.
• Mosab Abu Toha — Gaza writer and teacher who founded the Edward Said Public Library; author of the Light in Gaza chapter on cultural struggle in Gaza.
• Moses Hess — Early Zionist idealist whose Rome and Jerusalem (1862) shares Eliot’s language of restoration, French patronage and civilising mediation.
• Moshe Carmel — Northern front commander who ordered Nazareth’s expulsion in July 1948 and, on 31 October 1948, ordered his units to purify the occupied Galilee and help its residents leave, in Manna’s account.
• Moshe Dayan — Israeli leader whose April 1969 remarks state that Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages that are not there either.
• Moshe Kalman — Palmach deputy battalion commander who led the Sa’sa attack of 14–15 February 1948, in Pappe’s account.
• Moshe Landau — Danzig-born Haifa magistrate and Agranat’s lifelong collaborator, who with him kept Hebrew opinions against a 1942 English directive, in Lahav’s account.
• Moshe Levinger — Rabbi who established the first Jewish settlement in Hebron in 1968, a Gahelet founder-figure of Gush Emunim identified by the movement in May 1987 as its overall ideological guide, and named jointly with Menachem Begin as person of the generation in a spring 1987 Hadashot panel.
• Moshe Machover — Israeli-British academic and activist quoted by Barghouti against the symmetric “peace activists” image of the conflict, in Barghouti’s book.
• Moshe Sharett — Ben-Gurion’s second-in-command and the Jewish community’s ‘foreign minister’, who in a 1938 lecture himself described a land purchase accompanied by ‘transfer of population’.
• Moshe Smoira — Israel’s first chief justice, who spoke for the Court in Brun preferring security over liberties and protested the 1952 attack on the judiciary, in Lahav’s account.
• Moshe Sneh — Maki Knesset member who moved non-confidence in the Sinai “war government” and demanded complete withdrawal from the occupied territories.
• Mostafa Omar — Author of Chapter 3, “The National Liberation Struggle: A Socialist Analysis” (originally 2002).
• Motti Golani — Haifa historian who found the secret Operation Fig agreements in the French Air Force archives at Vincennes.
• Mousa Abu Marzouk — Hamas leader quoted in Debunking the Genocide Allegations: “We are not responsible for Gaza’s civilians. Israel and the UN are responsible.”
• Muhammad Abu al-Hayja — Civil engineer of Ayn Hawd al-Jadida and founder of the Association of Forty, testifying in Makdisi’s account to life in an unrecognized village within earshot of Ein Hod.
• Muhammad Dahlan — Fateh figure whose U.S.- and Israeli-armed Gaza militia was used to destabilize the Hamas government until Hamas’s June 2007 crackdown, in Makdisi’s account.
• Muhammad Haydar (Abu Jamil) — Majd al-Krum diarist known as Abu Jamil, whose 1950–51 diaries Manna uses as a documentary source for the village, in Manna’s account.
• Muhammad Nimr al-Hawwari — Lawyer and al-Najjada founder who returned to Nazareth with Israel’s consent and wrote an indictment of the mufti, the Arab states and the Arab Rescue Army, in Manna’s review.
• Muhammad Nimr ‘Awda — Mandate communist expelled from the party in 1940 for “nationalist deviation,” accused by al-Ittihad of recruiting emigrants to Libya, in Manna’s account.
• Musa al-‘Alami — Jerusalem attorney whose The Lesson of Palestine assigned primary responsibility to Britain and first sketched the war’s two-stage division, in Manna’s account.