Palestine Betrayed is a hoax — one that speaks the truth, yet conceals much more than it reveals, and creates a ‘neo-revisionist’ canard about the Palestinian expulsion.
Letters from Palestine – Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the power of Nonviolence. Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah. Wheatmark, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2010. Kenneth Ring’s writing on Palestine has already received just praise, as it is another in a series of recently published works that cry from the heart of Palestine.* [...]
Israeli Exceptionalism lucidly encapsulates in its relatively short 220-page narrative the essential aspects of the Zionist movement, showing how it has been able to rapidly advance from its birth to regional dominance.
The rest of Wawro’s story, before becoming stuck in his own analytical quicksand, is very well written. Put simply, without going into a lot of quotes and references, the U.S. has acted through arrogance, ignorance, and political domestic expediency.
My martial arts odyssey, while having a central theme of martial arts, has been my attempt to live up to the spirit of adventure and great literary prowess of my idols.
Israeli Exceptionalism is scholarly and well-researched, but appropriate for general readers. It is an important contribution to current discussions about the viability of Zionism and the future of Palestine.
When former US President George W. Bush left the White House, he left behind one of the most unpleasant legacies in history. He redefined the US’s role in world affairs, tainted the country’s reputation, and left his successor with a political inheritance that seemed almost irrevocable.
Aslan’s views in ‘Beyond Fundamentalism’ have some background weaknesses e.g. globalization, the U.S. role in jihad etc. but the specific ideas he presents about terrorism, global jihad, fundamentalism and democratic rights are sound and accurate. It is a brief work with some powerful statements, a bit sensational at times, but mostly well grounded.
The Invention of the Jewish People is very well written and argued, taking a lot of mind work to assimilate the ideas and their implications. Whether anything real arises from this is uncertain. As the West in particular examines the atrocities that modern Israel perpetrates against the Palestinian people, this critical examination of Jewish history may add to the growing discontent of other peoples towards Israeli militarism and apartheid.
In his report on Gaza issued late last year, prominent South African jurist Richard Goldstone accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes. His language also showed awareness of the fact that the former is an occupying power with most sophisticated weapon arsenal (as reflecting in the number of Palestinian victims), and the latter is a besieged, occupied faction in a state of self-defense.
FPJ Blog – Between the Lines
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