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On Palestine Kindle Edition
by Noam Chomsky (Author), Ilan Pappé (Author), Frank Barat (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region.
What is the future of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement directed at Israel? Which is more viable, the binational or one state solution? Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss these critical questions and more in this urgent and timely book, a sequel to their acclaimed Gaza in Crisis.
'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 Pilger
'This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region' Publishers Weekly (on Gaza in Crisis)
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Noam Chomsky is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, On Anarchism, Masters of Mankind and Who Rules the World. He has also been the subject of numerous books of biography and interviews and has collaborated with journalists on books such as Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On Palestine. Noam Chomsky is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He has spent more than half a century at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is Institute Professor Emeritus, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
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Alex
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye openerReviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2023
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CuriousOne
4.0 out of 5 stars What happens next is a welcome set of ideas as the US heads into bankruptcyReviewed in the United States on 11 October 2015
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I became interested in the Middle East after 9/11. I first read the history of each country via my old Britannica encyclopedias circa 1970. Since I was friends with several engineering students sent by the Shah of Iran in his efforts to modernize the country. Those people were very much like traditional Americans, respecting the girls they dated without trying to get sex, fun-loving, etc....They were abandoned upon the demise of the Shah. When the US decided to invade Iraq, I was stunned, as it reminded me of the old red coats against the hidden gorilla forces of the US.
Washington said 8 Saudis caused the 9/11 destruction, and I wondered what that had to do with Sadam Hussein....The lie that weapons of mass destruction was eventually exposed, but only after the US military had destroyed most of the country, and killed untold numbers of innocents.
No true Christian can approve of such barbarity, much less cause it...I read the history of Israel and "Against Our Better Judgment" gave the entire history of it.
The US has now destroyed much of the Middle East in its 'War on Terror'......Why? Why has such unhinged people as John McCain now demanded WW3 against Russia simply because Russia is supporting a legitimate government in Syria? The American people are now being led to believe all Arabs are evil, even though many in my area are average middle class families living in peace.
Before Israel was created, Christians and Arabs had gotten along for centuries in Palestine. This book is a welcome addition to the warning bell being sounded around the world that the US is now the evil empire bent on total world dominance. Americans have been brainwashed so thoroughly by media and government schools (using textbooks by the same corporate demons who control the media) they don't even know their own history.
How many have learned that Pearl Harbor was a ploy by Roosevelt to get the US into WW2 on the side of Stalin? Yet several documentary books have been published thanks to the FOIA law and the decades that have passed since then....
As TEA Party and Occupy Wall Street activists were demonized by the press and anyone in Washington who points out the total corruption gets the same treatment. The American people have lost their government a long time ago. The only prop holding up the 70-year-long genocide in Palestine is the US government.
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Which Way For The Palestinians Now?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2015
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Human rights activist and coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine Frank Barat has brought together Noam Chomsky and the Israeli dissident historian Ilan Pappe for a follow up to their 2010 collaboration Gaza in Crisis . This time Barat has decided to change the format from being a collection of essays to a mix of interviews with both Chomsky and Pappe as well as individually authored essays.
Im not the greatest fan of the use of the interview format in book form (it works on radio/television: unfortunately places, bar marginal stations, where Pappe and Chomsky don't get much if any airtime). Even for two authors as articulate and knowledgeable as Chomsky and Pappe undoubtedly are, the need to adlib produces a less direct and articulate text than the more studied and concise essays. Having both formats side by side in this edition clearly underlines that.
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Human rights activist and coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine Frank Barat has brought together Noam Chomsky and the Israeli dissident historian Ilan Pappe for a follow up to their 2010 collaboration Gaza in Crisis . This time Barat has decided to change the format from being a collection of essays to a mix of interviews with both Chomsky and Pappe as well as individually authored essays.
Im not the greatest fan of the use of the interview format in book form (it works on radio/television: unfortunately places, bar marginal stations, where Pappe and Chomsky don't get much if any airtime). Even for two authors as articulate and knowledgeable as Chomsky and Pappe undoubtedly are, the need to adlib produces a less direct and articulate text than the more studied and concise essays. Having both formats side by side in this edition clearly underlines that.
Having said that the exchanges are still worthwhile reading with the differences in the two interviewees opinions on the merits of the one/two state solution, and the limitations of using the Apartheid experience to describe relations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, keeping it interesting.
Amongst the essays the highlight is Chomskys address to the United Nations General Assembly last year which is a succinct account of developments in Palestine/Israel between the so called Israeli withdrawl from Gaza and last years brutal assault on Gaza, and the US's role as the perinally dishonest broker.
Amongst the essays the highlight is Chomskys address to the United Nations General Assembly last year which is a succinct account of developments in Palestine/Israel between the so called Israeli withdrawl from Gaza and last years brutal assault on Gaza, and the US's role as the perinally dishonest broker.
Both writers also make strong cases for their view of how things can be moved forward with Pappe embracing the one state solution using the defeat of Apartheid in South Africa as inspiration,
while a cautious Chomsky maintains that the two state solution is the realistic option for ending Palestinian suffering at the hands of a rapacious and brutal Israeli state. In short "On Palestine" is worth reading for those who are interested in the future of the Palestinians.
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Robert Caple
4.0 out of 5 stars Prior knowledge requiredReviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2022
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If you want to learn about the situation between Palestine and Israel, this is an advanced book to read and isn't the most accessible for those with next to no knowledge on the subject (like myself). Still a valuable read, though.
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Amr abualrub
4.0 out of 5 stars This book is more an enlightening delving into the minds of two great thinkers and how they view the solution to the ...Reviewed in the United States on 23 December 2017
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I’m a huge fan of both Chomsky and Pappé. This book, however, should not be treated as a historical or topical discussion on Palestine. This book is more an enlightening delving into the minds of two great thinkers and how they view the solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I won’t ruin any surprises but I think they’ve been quite just here.
With that said, the reason I’ve given it a 4/5 star review is only because I feel like the editor, Frank Barat, could have made this book from something moderately interesting to actually monumental. There are a number of historical events and illuminating documents referenced in passing by both Chomsky and Pappé, yet the reader is left in doubt about where to go to search for them to gain a further understanding. As an example, both reference “Israel’s recognition of Hamas’ adherence to the ceasefire,” yet there is no source for this.
Therefore, the editor did not do his job fully and he should have provided some background on some of these otherwise unheard of revelations. Setting up the interviews was a tall task and he did well by putting this together, however.
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Robert Caple
4.0 out of 5 stars Prior knowledge requiredReviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2022
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If you want to learn about the situation between Palestine and Israel, this is an advanced book to read and isn't the most accessible for those with next to no knowledge on the subject (like myself). Still a valuable read, though.
4 people found this helpfulReport
Amr abualrub
4.0 out of 5 stars This book is more an enlightening delving into the minds of two great thinkers and how they view the solution to the ...Reviewed in the United States on 23 December 2017
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I’m a huge fan of both Chomsky and Pappé. This book, however, should not be treated as a historical or topical discussion on Palestine. This book is more an enlightening delving into the minds of two great thinkers and how they view the solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I won’t ruin any surprises but I think they’ve been quite just here.
With that said, the reason I’ve given it a 4/5 star review is only because I feel like the editor, Frank Barat, could have made this book from something moderately interesting to actually monumental. There are a number of historical events and illuminating documents referenced in passing by both Chomsky and Pappé, yet the reader is left in doubt about where to go to search for them to gain a further understanding. As an example, both reference “Israel’s recognition of Hamas’ adherence to the ceasefire,” yet there is no source for this.
Therefore, the editor did not do his job fully and he should have provided some background on some of these otherwise unheard of revelations. Setting up the interviews was a tall task and he did well by putting this together, however.
17 people found this helpfulReport
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