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Book Review: Dismantling the Empire

Dismantle the Empire is a must read for anyone looking for a quick, concise, and meaningful information concerning the future of the American Empire.…

Book Review: Children of Catastrophe

Children of Catastrophe explains that identity and brings it to life in a straight forward manner, for those beyond the borders of the community, to the larger community of global…

Zionist Dialectics: Past and Future

Zionist Dialectics: Past and Future

The following is an excerpt, used with permission from the author, from the book Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism (Palgrave: 2009).…

Book Review: Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War

Andrew Bacevich has written another authoritative and well written book examining the U.S. military and its influence on the United States.…

Book Review: Toward a New Public Diplomacy

So there, four words to describe this book - arrogant, ignorant, image, FAIL. It would certainly make my critique shorter if that was all I wrote, but my pen ran…

Behind the Israeli Wall: A Lesson in Reality

Wiles’ work is an important contribution to what I insist on referring to as a ‘People’s History of Palestine’. In order for this genre to endure and flourish, it must…

Book Review: Palestine Betrayed

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.…

Book Review: Letters from Palestine

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…

Review: Israeli Exceptionalism – The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism

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…

Quicksand – America’s Pursuit of Power in the Middle East

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.…

A Warrior’s Odyssey – Interview with Antonio Graceffo

A Warrior’s Odyssey – Interview with Antonio Graceffo

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…

A Review of M. Shahid Alam’s Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism

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.…

‘Overcoming the Bush Legacy’: New Language Is Not Enough

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,…

Review: Beyond Fundamentalism – Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization

Review: Beyond Fundamentalism – Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization

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…

Review: The Invention of the Jewish People

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…

The Price of Courage: On Goldstone’s Bar Mitzvah and Finkelstein’s Book

The Price of Courage: On Goldstone’s Bar Mitzvah and Finkelstein’s Book

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…

A Moderate Voice from Within the Taliban

A Moderate Voice from Within the Taliban

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef sets out to present a counter-narrative about the Taliban in his autobiographical book, My Life with the Taliban. The ex-Taliban ambassador in Pakistan remains unrepentant…

Review: My Father Was A Freedom Fighter – Gaza’s Untold Story

Ramzy Baroud has written what should become an icon of historical-cultural writing for the people of Palestine. My Father Was a Freedom Fighter is an amazingly powerful and wonderfully…

The U.N. Partition Plan and Arab ‘Catastrophe’

The U.N. Partition Plan and Arab ‘Catastrophe’

In 1947, Great Britain, unable to reconcile its conflicting obligations to both Jews and Arabs, requested that the United Nations take up the question of Palestine. In May, the U.N.…

Review: Behind the Wall – Life, Love, and Struggle in Palestine

Wiles’ writing style is elegant and clear, using a simplicity of language that allows the people of Palestine to speak for themselves with all the honest emotion involved in their…

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