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4.25 AVERAGE
4.25 AVERAGE
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A compulsory read.
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A crucial and prescient read, although it is depressing how much of what is discussed is exactly the same as what is still happening now. Some great points but I did feel like some passages were repeated multiple times throughout the book.
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- "We live in a society where the 'nothing' (shopping, watching TV) has become a 'something' and the 'something' (relaxing, meditating, sharing) has become a void in need of being filled. Our minds, our souls, have slowly been corrupted by materialistic nothingness that has been created for us, billboarded in front of our eyes, and printed, tattooed on our cells by advertising, marketing, and vulture capitalism."
- "The Palestine question is emblematic of what is wrong with the world. The role played by Western states, the complicity of corporations and of various institutions make this case a very special one. The fact that Israel actually benefits from violating international law and receives 'red carpet' treatment from the West means that we all have a role to play in ending the injustice that the Palestinians are facing."
- "It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: 'Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here.' In other words, "I've got what i want, and you forget what your concerns are. I'll just take what I want.' "
- “If you take a look at the international support for Israeli policies, it’s of course primarily the USA, but secondarily it’s the Anglosphere. Australia, Canada. . . . I suspect that there is a kind of intuitive feeling on the part of the population. Look, we did it, it must be right. So they are doing it, so it must be right.”
- “Heading toward 2020, we will all most probably face a racist, ultra-capitalist, and more expanded Israel still busy ethnically cleansing Palestine. There is however a good chance that such a state will become a global pariah and the people around the world will ask their 'leaders' to act and end any relations they have with it. What they should not hear are the past slogans, which are no longer relevant in the struggle for a more just and democratic Palestine.”
- "For the past fourteen years, the norm is that Israel kills more than two Palestinian children a week."
- "Many of the world's problems are so intractable that it's hard to think of ways even to take steps toward mitigating them. The Israel-Palestine conflict is not one of these."
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Absolute gem of a commentary on Palestine. Only a tiny little book but it holds so much information. There’s some repetitions in the last chapter since its short essays earlier written and published elsewhere. The authors being a ‘former’ Israeli and a former American Zionist makes it somewhat easier to digest for certain critics however reading the reviews its clear some people will always find a flaw in literature that doesn’t fit there narrative.