Waterstones Gaza in Crisis
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Description: Co-authored by two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, a clear-sighted and essential analysis of the political context around this region at a desperate impasse From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel's conduct in 'Operation Cast Lead' has rattled even some of its most strident supporters. In Gaza in Crisis, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé survey the fallout from that devastation, and place the massacre in Gaza in the context of Israel's long-standing war against the Palestinians. It is a rigorous, historically informed and much-needed analysis of the situation and will be welcomed by all those eager for Chomsky's and Pappé's insights into yet another political catastrophe.' Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon. he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today' The New York Times Book Review' Ilan Pappé is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian' John Pilger.
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Product ID: 9780141399515
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ISBN: 9780141399515
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Author: Mr. D. T. Marchesi
Rating: 5
Review: This book brings together the analyses of two of the leading commentators on the subject of Gaza, and particularly of the run-up to and execution of Operation Cast Lead.The unrelenting hatred of the Israeli rulers and their obedient military executioners is, of course, directed overwhelmingly a. against virtually defenceless victims, in the military sense, and b.with the aim of destroying any viable Palestinian state. These matters are not just on record for those who seek out references, as Chomsky and Pappé do, but is manifest through the actions of the Israeli authorities, backed, sadly, by the great majority of the Jewish population of Israel, it would seem. With the historian's analysis of the background, and Chomsky's characteristically pungent notes on the current situation, this book could be read alongside the heart-breaking witness account "Eyes in Gaza" by the Norwegian humanitarian doctors Gilbert and Fosse. What the media generally depict as a cruel( well, not too cruel- the victims are undifferentiated Arabs, or terrorists) necessity on the part of "plucky little Israel" has immense human cost. I would also recommend the works by Jonathan Cook, who explains unchallengeably that the Jewish state's underlying policy is not just to kill Palestinians, but, even more, their hopes. Quoting a leading Likud publicist from 1996, Chomsky notes that Netanyahu ( and, in general, the whole Israeli establishment) can contemplate a "Palestinian state" if the Palestinians choose to call it that rather than "fried chicken", and anybody who studies the "facts on the ground" can see that the "two-state solution" means that a KFC takeover of Palestine is, indeed, in the offing.
Author: Al
Rating: 1
Review: For years, I have been coming across the name Noam Chomsky, normally mentioned (except particularly in the case of Rod Liddle) with respect, if not reverence, and, when I saw this come up on offer, I bought it as an introduction to Chomsky and an opportunity to get some informed, balanced and nuanced views on Gaza. It consists of a series of interviews with and essays by Chomsky and his chum, Ilan Pappé and, instead of any balance or nuance, the whole thing comprises a bilious, biased, bigoted, blinkered rant against Israel and others. The Chomsky / Pappé world is divided into the nice and nasty. Palestinians are nice, Hamas is nice (although, at page 149, we finally get acknowledgement that its “….charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state [and the expulsion or eradication of its Jewish citizens?]….”, Hezbollah sometimes appears to be nice, presumably Chomsky and Pappé are nice and, on one occasion, when it spoke out against and acted against Israel, Greece was nice, so nice that “Perhaps Greece is just too civilized to be part of Europe.”. In the other camp, we have “….the United States, whose support of Israel is the least of its crimes….”, “….the UK, [and] other criminal states….”, “….Europe is too timid….”, “….the collaborationist Palestinian Authority….”, etc. Historical examples cited are very carefully selected, trimmed, sieved and sanitised, such as: the 1948 War is portrayed as being an attack on a few unorganised, badly armed, peaceful Arab farmers by a massive, heavily armed, Jewish military machine; so presumably the troops from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen and Gubb Pasha’s Arab Legion were only there for a bit of a holiday and the militias of Hitler’s two erstwhile house guests, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Fawzi al-Qawuqji, were only unengaged bystanders. I did learn some interesting things, including: “….Israel has no right to use force to defend itself against rockets from Gaza, even if they are regarded as terrorist crimes.”, “….the Democratic Party in the United States [cannot] recognize England.” and “….the “international community” [is] a technical term referring to the U.S. government and whoever goes along with it.”. One thing that does not even get touched on is that in the major population expulsions of the 20th century (in the 1920s, over one million ethnic Greeks from Turkey and close to half a million ethnic Turks from Greece; after WWII, close to two and a half million Sudetendeutsch from Czechoslovakia, and almost one million ethnic Germans from East Prussia), 70 years later they were not stuck in refugee camps or places like the “….Gaza dungeon….”, they were rapidly accommodated by and assimilated into the populations of their ethnic brethren – could it be that it suits some people or countries to have Gaza as an ant’s nest they can prod with a stick every now and then? I do not feel that this book helps anyone’s understanding of Gaza or does anything to move things forward – I think it just serves to reinforce antagonisms and prejudices. So disappointing.
