Any recommendations for books on the history of the modern mid-east, creation of Israel, wars with its neighbors, etc?  I know there are differing views on all of that, hence the ongoing unpleasantness still taking place. Looking for an objective history if that is possible.

Not a book, but a pretty good article:
https://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars

The Lions Gate by Steven Pressfield

Rise and Kill First, a history of Israeli targeted assassinations.

Israel, A History by Martin Gilbert.

Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel's Just War Against Hamas. Written 9 years ago but Hamas hasn't changed their strategies at all.

The Sword and the Olive a Critical History of Israeli Defense Forces.

For a book that will describe what Israel will be doing for the next few years, Ghost Warriors Inside Israel's Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism. It is the story of the Border Police's special unit that went undercover into Gaza and the West Bank doing the same sort of raids McChrystal's guys did in Iraq.

A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism

Defensive Shield: An Israeli Special Forces Commander on the front line of counterterrorism.  Free to borrow on Kindle Unlimited.

Mossad greatest missions.

Israel's Struggles with Hezbollah and 34 Days Israel's 2006 War in Lebanon.

Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East Kindle

Operation Peace in Galiee (1982 Lebanon War).

This is a free book, just go to website and download PDF.  The Gaza War 2014: The War Israel Did Not Want and the Disaster It Averted.  Published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.  

Links to a PDF---Another free one--We Were Caught Unprepared--published by the US Army deals with 2006 war in Lebanon.

PDF is free to download at link--Air Operations in Israel's War Against Hezbollah Learning from Lebanon and Getting It Right in Gaza

Another good source for free reads--The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Center.. All of their stuff can be downloaded as PDFs to read on kindle or whatever.  

Israel's Way of War: A Strategic and Operational Analysis, 1948-2014.  More of an academic book.

Everyone's favorite, Operation Wrath of God:  Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter- Team, Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response Paperback, One Day in September.

Six Days of War, June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.

Jean Larteguy was famous for his two noveld about French paras in Algeria and Indochina--The Centurions and the Praetorians but in 1967 he wrote a book about the IDF.  The Walls of Israel.

Eightern Days in October--1973 Yom Kippur War.

The next two are written by an Israeli born in Iraq.  He's a professor emeritus at Cambridge.  He is not a Zionist, some of his books have been highly criticized, but they give you another perspective.  The Iron Wall--Israel and the Arabs and Israel and Palestine, Reappraisals, Revisions, and Refutations.

Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998.

1948--The First Arab Israeli War.

Night Raiders: The Story of the Legendary Unit 101 During the IDF Retribution Operations. A description of the book:

America's War for the Greater Middle East, a Military History.

The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism

The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power

Spies Against Armageddon Inside Israel's Secrer War

Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas.  Written in 2010 but still good.

Michigan66: thanks for all your recommendations!

This is more for my wife, as I have read and have a fairly decent understanding of the circumstances of the creation of Israel, and the ramifications of that, but she has been asking questions about it while witnessing the news.   So I think she would be best served by reading more in-depth of that subject.  I just put on hold at my local library "Righteous Victims", and after that I will have her read, (if she still wants to), "The Iron Wall", from your list. . . .

She might like Martin Gilbert's book rather than Avi Shlaim's.

Shlaim goes off the rails sometimes.  Not as bad as Norman Finkelstein.  Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim are in lots videos on Youtube as well.  

Thanks for posting that.  I didn't know he wrote a book on the Six Day War.

I second this book.  It is great reading.  The Lion's Gate

I'm currently reading a book, more or less specifically dealing with the conflict archaeology and the rise of unconventional warfare/special forces aspects in T.E. Lawrence's activities in Arabia. It has some very good, yet brief, history on what lead up to those events. I was turned onto it by another arfcom member. Good stuff.

Masters of Mayhem, by James Stejskal

Worth a read, good book.

Dan Kurzman -  Genesis: 1948
Barbara Tuchman - Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
The Balfour Declaration

It's not impartial in the slightest but, Leon Uris wrote some good historical fiction covering a lot of the subject matter. Exodus was a long but, good read.

One of the better books, IMO, on the Middle East is on sale at Amazon.  The Kindle edition of "America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History" by Andrew Bacevich is only $4.99.  Even if you disagree with his conclusions it has good background info.

Link to Amazon.

start with Benny Morris.