Disappearing Palestine : Israel's experiments in human despair / Jonathan Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Jonathan, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Zionism--Israel.

Zionism.

Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government.

Israelis--Colonization.

Israelis.

Israel.

Israelis--Colonization--Palestine.

Land settlement--Government policy--Israel.

Land settlement.

Land settlement--Government policy.

Palestine--Politics and government--21st century.

Palestine.

Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government--21st century.

Palestinian Arabs.

Physical Description:

viii, 294 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books, 2008.

Summary:

Palestine is fast disappearing. 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. It has transformed the West Bank and Gaza into laboratories for testing the infrastructure of confinement, creating a lucrative 'defence' industry by pioneering the technologies needed for crowd control, surveillance, collective punishment and urban warfare.

In this insightful and authoritative new book, leading journalist Jonathan Cook examines the many different guises in which these experiments on the Palestinian people are being carried out. Accessible and comprehensive, this is a powerful analysis of one of the most enduring and entrenched conflicts in contemporary world politics.

Contents:

The road to dispossession

Greater Israel's lure

Dunam after dunam

Disappearing Palestine

Zionism and its meanings

Life under occupation

Compromised critics

Our embedded media

Anti-Semitism and its abuses

Afterword: Two-state dreamers.

ISBN:

9781848130319

1848130317

OCLC:

262581633