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This book claims that Palestine is fast disappearing and fulfilling the objectives of Israel's founding fathers. Over many decades, Israel has developed and refined policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the Palestinian people, in a relentless effort to destroy them as a nation. It has industrialized Palestinian despair through ever more sophisticated systems of curfews, checkpoints, walls, permits and land grabs. Cook analyzes how Israel has transformed the West Bank and Gaza into laboratories for testing the infrastructure of confinement, creating a lucrative "defense" industry by pioneering the technologies needed for urban warfare, crowd control and collective punishment.

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November 15, 2008
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1848130317
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Jonathan Cook is the only western journalist to be based in Nazareth, the capital of the Palestinian people in Israel. He was previously a staff journalist on the Guardian and Observer newsletters, and has also written about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the Times, Le Monde diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Al-Ahram Weekly, Counterpunch and Aljazeeria.net. He is the author of Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State (2006) and Israel and the Clash of Civilisations (2008).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zed Books; illustrated edition (November 15, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1848130317
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1848130319
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.44 x 0.68 x 8.51 inches

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- #2,666 in Israel & Palestine History (Books)
- #3,485 in Middle Eastern Politics

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Jordan

GREAT Book!

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2011

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Most important work by the exceptional, award winning [...] author Jonathan Cook.

Jonathan Cook won the Martha Gellhorn Special Award for Journalism in June 2011. As covered on the Israeli Occupation Archive ([...]

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Jonathan Cook, whose work appears regularly on the pages of the IOA, was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Special Award for Journalism.

The award citation reads: "Jonathan Cook's work on Palestine and Israel, especially his de-coding of official propaganda and his outstanding analysis of events often obfuscated in the mainstream, has made him one of the reliable truth-tellers in the Middle East."

Indeed. As regular readers of Jonathan Cook's work already know, Cook's analysis puts today's events in an historical context that never fails to decipher the power interests behind the news. His knowledge of Palestinian and Israeli history; his insightful, astute coverage; and his commitment to justice result in unparalleled reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Occupation, and the life of Palestinians under Israeli rule, both within and outside of the 1967 borders.

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This book details the history and reality of Palestinian dispossession by Israel: the thoroughly planned and carefully executed campaign of ethnic cleansing carried out by Israel over decades in which Palestine keeps shrinking and Greater Israel grows even greater.

An essential text for the understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel's Occupation and the dimming prospects for peace and resolution.

Most highly recommended!

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Howard B. Lenow

Another Amazing Book by Jonathan Cook

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2010

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If you want to understand, truly understand, what is going on inside Israel and what life is truly like for Palestinian citizens of Israel, you shoud read this book. NO one understands the intricacies of the Israeli's government's systematic and institutionalized discrimination against its Palestinian citizens like Mr. Cook.

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Theodore M. Horesh

This is a lucid and comprehensive work

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2012

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This is probably the most comprehensive work I have read on Palestine. If you want to understand the history and mechanisms through which Palestinian land has been broken up, hemmed in, regulated, and stolen, this is the best work of which I am aware. Like many works, this book provides a comprehensive history of Israeli acquisition of Palestinian lands. But it is unique amongst my readings in this field in that it uncovers the administrative means through which Palestinian lands have been progressively... there is really no other word for it than... stolen.

This book does a far better job of making sense of the plight of the Palestinians than other excellent works, like those of Noam Chomsky, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said, Jimmy Carter, and Saree Makdisi. Chomsky probably does a better job of making the moral case against the actions of Israel than anyone else. Rashid Khalidi presents a scholarly case for the endurance of Palestinain identity. Edward Said fluently speaks of the inner experience of Palestinians and the mechanisms of cultural oppression. Jimmy Carter provides a holistic picture of the plight of the Palestinians and a comprehensive view of a roadmap for peace. And Saree Makdisi does a better job of explaining how conditions in the West Bank shape Palestinian lives. But Cook provides a more comprehensive view of how Israel has exploited the Palestinians, how it has effected their prospects for forging a state, and what we might expect of future Israeli administrations.

However, this is a work of journalism, from an award winning journalist from what I understand, but journalism nonetheless. The sources are typical of journalistic works, mostly Hebrew sources, and often governmental, but less filtered than what you might get from an academic. This means that it is harder to cite Cook with confidence. It appears to me that in uncovering multiple deceptive practices of multiple different Israeli governments, Cook has become a little too quick to assign motives. This is understandable. And of course, this is what a good reporter should get at, who is doing what and for what reasons. While no one would question the validity of such reporting on, say, Rwanda, there are many who demand more of scholarship on Israel. While I would recommend this to someone new to the issue, who is at least a little sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, I would not give it to an Israel-hawk, even though I am tempted by its comprehensiveness and conciseness.

One more thing: Cook has been accused by another reviewer of being an anti-Semite. Please be assured there is nothing in the book to warrant, or even provoke, such an accusation. Supporters of Israel will often throw around very strong language like this when they imagine an individual to be a threat to Israel. Whether or not they believe what they are saying, I am uncertain. What is certain is that if it were an intentional smear tactic it would be very successful. Supporters of Israeli oppression have managed to sideline many credible and respectable politicians and academics. However, the practice of branding opponents with inflammatory smears should itself should delegitimize its practitioners. They did the same thing with Jimmy Carter, when he wrote of Israeli abuses of Palestinians. This in spite of the fact that probably more than any other individual outside of Israel, Carter has been responsible for assuring Israeli security.

This work should be taken seriously and the arguments found therein taken up for further research by scholars. And we should salute Cook for his dedication to human rights.

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marilyn selim

I didn't get to read the whole book

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2011

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I originally got this book through the library and read one and a half chapters before it had to go back. It was enough though to make me realize that it was worth buying and digesting slowly and thoughtfully. I won't get into the geo-political reasons to read this because that would open up too much backlash from shortsighted/blinded/brainwashed persons. As it happens, my daughter and a friend visited at Christmas time when my purchased copy arrived. The friend went home with the book. If I don't get it back, that's OK. I will be purchasing another for myself.

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James Griffin

Why I like this book

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2013

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I found this book factual and easy to read even though there is a lot of information being delivered all the time and it is a big book.
The reader's interest is being held throughout

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john randall

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2016

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Sad and compelling.

Newman

Required reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2011

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This really is a well written book, I read it in two days, in all my spare moments.
If you want to understand how we got to where we are in Palestine/Israel, then please read this book. It deserves to have a wide readership. It quashes many of the accepted "facts" surrounding the history of the region, and sheds much needed light on the real underlying policy of the Israeli government. There are also many examples of what it actually means to be a Palestinian living under Israeli occupation.

After reading this, I understand more fully why a true two state solution is not going to happen, and why a one state solution is even less likely. This work really undermines so much of the pro Israel/zionist propaganda that is unfortunately most peoples only source of information. More power to your elbow Mr Cook !

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Siegfried Ueberlacheer

Grossartiges, unverzichtbares Buch zum Verständnis des Elends der geschundenen Palästinenser

Reviewed in Germany on July 18, 2017

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Dieses Buch ist eine ausserordentlich profunde Beschreibung auf welcher (völkerrechtswidrigen) Grundlage der zionistische Staat Israel entstand und welches Elend dieser Landraub und die Vertreibung und Beraubung der ursprünglichen arabischen Bevölkerung durch vorwiegend europäische Einwanderer (mit erfundener Legende) für die Vertriebenen bedeutete und bedeutet! Man müsste dieses Buch in alle Sprachen der UNO übersetzen und allen europäischen und USA-amerikanischen skrupellosen Politikern, die diesen zionistischen Verbrechern schmeicheln, zum lesen aufzwingen. Weiters sollte man dieses grossartige, informative Werk im Geschichtsunterreicht der Mittelschulen und Hochschulen zwingend besprechen!

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André W.

Apartheid State strikes again with Canada's help!

Reviewed in Canada on July 23, 2017

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It tells in great disgusting detail how CANADA PARK in the Apartheid State was created with funding support from Lilly-white Canada.

Sistagaga

Une présentation claire: pourquoi et comment la Palestine disparaît

Reviewed in France on November 21, 2014

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On entend chaque jour des informations sur Israêl et la Palestine.
Jonathan COOK donne du sens, de la logique à tout cela. Il montre comment chaque évènement s' imbrique dans une seule logique. Dès les débuts du sionisme et plus encore dès la fondation d' Israël, les juifs impliqués n' avaient qu' un but la créations du Grand Israël au mépris des droits des Palestiniens et le leur existence même. "Les Palestiniens n' existent pas." disait Golda-Meir.

Tous les coups sont permis: d' abord la violence et la terreur puis la colonisation, les destructions, l' emprisonnement, le harcèlement et pire encore, les bombardements de Gaza. L' auteur met en lumière la destruction systématique des élites intellectuelles ou économiques palestiniennes. Un seul but : qu'ils s' en aillent mais surtout que le monde entier soit dupe et tienne les Palestiniens pour responsable de leur malheur.
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La conclusion est pessimiste, Israël finira par radicaliser la résistance palestinienne, une menace sérieuse dans le contexte du Moyen-Orient d' aujourd' hui. Vu la clarté de l' exposé, on serait porté à croire Jonathan Cook.

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