Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on the U.S.-Israeli War on the Palestinians

by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé

Overview

This “succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays [presents] sober and unflinching analysis” of Gaza’s humanitarian crisis (Publishers Weekly).
 
While numerous books address Israel-Palestine conflict, Gaza in Crisis brings together two renowned thinkers—American activist Noam Chomsky and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé—to examine why this conflict has lasted so long, who can stop it, and how. Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, a 2008 military assault on the Gaza Strip, thrust the region to the center of the discussion. With expert knowledge and deep insight, Chomsky and Pappé survey the fallout from Israel's conduct in Gaza and place it in historical context.
 
This revised and expanded edition includes a new essay by Pappé called “The Ten Mythologies of Israel,” originally written for the New York session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Also included is Chomsky’s incisive essay “‘Exterminate All the Brutes’: Gaza 2009” and a dialogue between the two writers on “The Ghettoization of Palestine.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608463541
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	11/04/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	480,675
File size:	634 KB

About the Author

Noam Chomsky is widely regarded to be one of the foremost critics of US foreign policy in the world. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. Since 2003 he has written a monthly column for the New York Times syndicate. His recent books include Masters of Mankind and Hopes and Prospects. Haymarket Books recently released updated editions of twelve of his classic books.

Ilan Pappé is a senior lecturer in Political Science at Haifa University. He is Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies, Haifa. He is also author of the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), and The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge).

Frank Barat is a human rights activist and author. He was the coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine and is now the president of the Palestine Legal Action Network. His books include Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Gaza in Crisis, Corporate Complicity in Israel's Occupation, and On Palestine.

Table of Contents

Introduction Frank Barat 1

1 The Fate of Palestine: An Interview Noam Chomsky 5

2 Clusters of History: U.S. Involvement in the Palestine Question Ilan Pappé 19

3 State of Denial: The Nakbah in Israeli History and Today Ilan Pappé 57

4 "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009 Noam Chomsky 79

5 Blueprint for a One-State Movement: A Troubled History Ilan Pappé 125

6 The Ghettoization of Palestine: A Dialogue Ilan Pappé Noam Chomsky 145

7 The Killing Fields of Gaza 2004-2009 Ilan Pappé 171

8 A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won't) Noam Chomsky 195

Acknowledgments 211

A Note on the Text 213

Notes 215

Index 235

Editorial Reviews

Although much of the material collected here precedes Israel's recent military attack on a Gaza-bound international flotilla of embargo-breaking humanitarian aid, this succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays from the renowned linguist and activist Chomsky (Hopes and Prospects) and prominent Israeli historian Pappé (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine) gives essential context to the crisis. The reader will find Chomsky's consistent positions on everything from the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the issue of a one- versus two-state settlement. Pappé adds vital and unexpected historical background, including a chapter on the deep American evangelical roots in the support of Zionism and the birth of modern Arab nationalism in Palestine. Pappé and Chomsky are not perfectly in synch on every point: Chomsky remains skeptical of an academic boycott of Israel, for instance, called for in the past by Pappé and others. But the fundamentals of the crisis--and its scale in humanitarian, moral and political terms--are clear, as well as clearly expressed, between them. This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly