Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky (PDF)

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“Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet.”—The New York Times Book Review”Ilan Pappé is Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.”—John PilgerDescribed by a UN fact-finding mission as “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate, and terrorize a civilian population,” Israel’s Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict.In Gaza in Crisis, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, two of the issue’s most insightful and prominent critical voices, survey the fallout from Israel’s conduct in Gaza and place it into the context of Israel’s longstanding occupation of Palestine.Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s foremost social critics, and one of its most prolific. He is author of Failed States and Hegemony or Survival, both New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is institute professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.Ilan Pappé is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies, director of the Palestine Studies Centre, and a longtime political activist. He is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

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Editorial Reviews: From Publishers Weekly 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.) (c) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 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. Among his recent books are the bestsellers Hegemony or Survival, recommended by Hugo Chavez in the United Nations, and Failed States. He is Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Ilan Pappe´is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the UK, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies, and director of the Palestine Studies Centre. He is author of the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge), and is a long time political activist.

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⭐Authors are writing what they know. Interesting read.

⭐Amazing!! Buy it!

⭐The book is informative and heart-breaking. I was always siding with Israel until I read this book. I wish the whole world knew about the atrocities committed on the Palestinian people by Israel with the help of the U.S. I wish something could be done to take away some of the power of AIPAC. I wish the U.N. would act to stop the expansion of the settlements. I don’t understand why Israel has been free to violate international laws for so many decades. No wonder that the result is the hatred demonstrated by the Islamists who are looking for revenge no matter how brutal and savage it is achieved.

⭐Good research readings. Both scholars write very well.

⭐Some of you may be reading this and thinking what is the problem with that? “New” Chomsky is not as great and detailed an author as old Chomsky. The citations and research are still there, but the wording seems lazier. It may be me but that is my opinion. Pappe seems to follow Chomsky’s lead in the writing instead of dominating readers like he usually does. Here is a long review I wrote months ago…I completed this book yesterday so I figured I would give a review to people who like to read books about the Middle East and Palestine in particular. It takes two prominent authors Ilan Pappe (author of A History of Modern Palestine, the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, etc) and Noam Chomsky (Hegemony or Survival, Manufacturing Consent, etc) to supposedly discuss the history and political situation of Gaza. I put supposedly because it seems the book is overall more about Palestine, US/Israeli policy, and possible ways to pressure the US and Israel than about Gaza itself. Two of the eight chapters deal specifically with Gaza, mostly from 2004-present day. One chapter deals with the issue of a one state solution, another with US involvement in the Palestine question, one referring to the place of the Nakbah in Israeli history, Middle East peace plan, a conversation with the two authors about various subjects, and an overall scene of the area through Chomsky’s eyes.Now at this point I must be honest, when it comes to Noam Chomsky, I treat him like Wall Street Journal readers treat a Milton Friedman. They may agree with his overall points perhaps 80-85% of the time, but the language he uses is just so repetitive and colloquial based that you would never want to cite him in any research. Noam Chomsky is not a political scientist or a historian, he is a Linguistics professor and innovator. So although his research may be amazing, his words (the first time you read them) shocking and charged, one would be hard pressed to see the man cited by anyone involving the Palestine question. As I know of he only has one book other than this one specifically about the Palestine issue entitled “The Fateful Triangle” from 1983, and a few articles here and there.Now Ilan Pappe is another issue for he has been writing about the Palestine issue, almost exclusively from the mid 80s onwards. He is the author of around 10 books on the subject and is currently writing or putting out almost 8 more. He has written about the role of the British in 1948, the origins of the conflict, a history of the Husayni family, and about the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Sometimes like any author he comes off rather colloquial but nowhere to the extreme of a Chomsky.As a person who has read every Pappe book and perhaps 27 or 28 Chomsky books it seems Pappe wanted to do more “Chomsky-speak” than his usual self. Usually in a Pappe book you see hundreds of citations with wide-ranging references and even to my disdain usual a good amount of his own. This book is more dialogue based, which the majority of Chomsky book are, which means less research and more recollection are the basis. This kind of book is full of repetition and not a lot of facts (if one is used to the subject) but can be a nice break from denser reads on Palestine.I would not recommend this book to beginners or advanced readers on Palestine alike. For the beginner it will give the wrong impression on Palestine research and writing, in addition to assuming a decent basis in the subject. For advanced readers the book could be used as a break to ease the mind but will give little in terms of academic substance and should not be used for research in any way. I would recommend it to 4th year undergraduates in Middle East or 1st year Graduate students in Middle East who have a background, but not enough they could write over 100pgs on a subject.Overall I would give the book a 6.5/10 because of my background, but I could see how others would rate it higher.

⭐It is horrible what Israel gets away with. Thousands of innocent children blown to bits. The Palestinians are locked up in a prison under surveillance day and night by US helicopters, fighter jets and bombers maned by Israelis. Door gunners kill unsuspected Palestinians at random. In order to get food, medical supplies, building material, etc. the Palestinians have to build tunnels into the Sinai desert which are bombed persistently by the Israeli The Palestinian fishermen are fired at and their boats sunk if the venture too far from shore. It is a clear case of ethnic cleansing compared to our massacre of the Indians during the 1800’s. Netayahu and his cronies are war criminals and must be tried by the World Court in the Haigh. Every American must read this book. The truth must be known.

⭐Good read from one of the leading if not the leading commentator of the Middle East

⭐Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe provide an analytical and academic discourse on the effects of Israel’s war on Gaza and the effects on the Palestinian people of Gaza both then and now. Noam Chomsky is a renowned academic and human rights activist from MIT and Ilan Pappe is an emininet Israeli historian who has researched the history of the 1948 birth of Israel.

⭐For years, I have been coming across the name Noam Chomsky, normally mentioned (except particularly in the case of Rod Liddle) with respect, if not reverence, and, when I saw this come up on offer, I bought it as an introduction to Chomsky and an opportunity to get some informed, balanced and nuanced views on Gaza.It consists of a series of interviews with and essays by Chomsky and his chum, Ilan Pappé and, instead of any balance or nuance, the whole thing comprises a bilious, biased, bigoted, blinkered rant against Israel and others.The Chomsky / Pappé world is divided into the nice and nasty.Palestinians are nice, Hamas is nice (although, at page 149, we finally get acknowledgement that its “….charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state [and the expulsion or eradication of its Jewish citizens?]….”, Hezbollah sometimes appears to be nice, presumably Chomsky and Pappé are nice and, on one occasion, when it spoke out against and acted against Israel, Greece was nice, so nice that “Perhaps Greece is just too civilized to be part of Europe.”.In the other camp, we have “….the United States, whose support of Israel is the least of its crimes….”, “….the UK, [and] other criminal states….”, “….Europe is too timid….”, “….the collaborationist Palestinian Authority….”, etc.Historical examples cited are very carefully selected, trimmed, sieved and sanitised, such as: the 1948 War is portrayed as being an attack on a few unorganised, badly armed, peaceful Arab farmers by a massive, heavily armed, Jewish military machine; so presumably the troops from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen and Gubb Pasha’s Arab Legion were only there for a bit of a holiday and the militias of Hitler’s two erstwhile house guests, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Fawzi al-Qawuqji, were only unengaged bystanders.I did learn some interesting things, including: “….Israel has no right to use force to defend itself against rockets from Gaza, even if they are regarded as terrorist crimes.”, “….the Democratic Party in the United States [cannot] recognize England.” and “….the “international community” [is] a technical term referring to the U.S. government and whoever goes along with it.”.One thing that does not even get touched on is that in the major population expulsions of the 20th century (in the 1920s, over one million ethnic Greeks from Turkey and close to half a million ethnic Turks from Greece; after WWII, close to two and a half million Sudetendeutsch from Czechoslovakia, and almost one million ethnic Germans from East Prussia), 70 years later they were not stuck in refugee camps or places like the “….Gaza dungeon….”, they were rapidly accommodated by and assimilated into the populations of their ethnic brethren – could it be that it suits some people or countries to have Gaza as an ant’s nest they can prod with a stick every now and then?I do not feel that this book helps anyone’s understanding of Gaza or does anything to move things forward – I think it just serves to reinforce antagonisms and prejudices.So disappointing.

⭐I read this book to learn something, after all Chomsky is without doubt a towering intellect and Pappe is a credible Jewish historian. Persistently they claim HAMAS was democratically elected, whilst FATAH is a tool of the US and Israel. Although the total number of Palestinians killed in the last 70 years of conflict with Israel is less than that of one month in Syria, the Israelis are waging genocide. HAMAS calling for total destruction of Israel is rhetoric, they really want a 2 State solution, whereas Chomsky & Pappe want one state. Emotive & partisan, rather than facts.

⭐Read it and weep. Well researched, well written, well presented

⭐What a joy to read such a clear and articulate analysis of one of themost complex areas of modern history!!

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