Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Originally published on Electronic Intifada.
Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada, 13 October 2009
In his new book The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance, Nasser Abufarha examines the phenomena of Palestinian suicide operations. It is based on extensive fieldwork conducted in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, mostly in and ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
This book is an excellent "guide for the perplexed". It is perfect for those new to the subject. I personally will be buying copies and foisting it on friends and relatives. At the same time I was surprised how much a learned from it (particularly about the Palestinian citizens of ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
I went into this book looking for the "old" Obama, who one gets the impression was perhaps more radical before he started to compromise in order to win elections. It seems, though, that this is an illusion, and he was never really on the left in the first place. Obama ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
A pretty dry, academic account of (surprise surprise) US policy towards the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and other Arab lands in 1948 and 1967 (with a focus on the status of Jerusalem in 1948). It's a sound summary of the official US documentary record, supported by various memoirs etc. Its ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
An excellent sequel to "Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948". Here Reinhart argues that the correct way to understand the 2005 Israeli redeployment from Gaza (the much vaunted "disengagement") is in the context of massive US pressure behind the scenes, even rising to the level of military sanctions. ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Philosophic pretence can not disguise what is essentially yet another very stupid story about a masked vigilante in tights who goes around beating criminals within an inch of their lives (as if police brutality has never been tried -- and ever solved society's problems). Making matters worse is the way ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
The late and much missed Tanya Reinhart wrote this 2002 analysis at height of the second intifada during the darkest days of the violence. It is extremely solid and many of her arguments here have been borne out by more recent events. Although one should always be wary of making ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
This is really disappointing. I've long respected Amira Hass' reporting from the occupied West Bank and Gaza. And there's is no question that, as the only Israeli reporting regularly from Palestine these are historically important news reports, taking us through some of the darkest moments of the second intifada.However, in ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Hm. I'm in two minds about this one. Reading it, I couldn't shake the feeling that it was rushed out in the wake of the January 2006 Hamas election victory -- an attempt by Pluto Press to make a quick buck. It reads somewhat like a first draft in places, ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
It takes a little while to get going, and is a bit slow at the beginning, but it pays off in the end. The vision of home-grown British fascism (as opposed to a "what if" scenario where in the Nazi won WII) is all too convincing. Also, I love the ...
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