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A review by indahmarwan
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky
5.0
In the rising of oppression and occupation of Israel on Palestine, I have been heartbroken and crying for days watching the torture, injustice, and silence that the world has on Palestine through my social media. I remembered I had this book untouched in my bookshelf and I grab it right away.
This book is a conversation and reflection between Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé as interviewed and edited by Frank Barat. Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé are two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine. Noam Chomsky has been a truth teller and vocal to the foreign policy of the US, especially regarding Israel and Palestine. I know some people are questioning Ilan Pappé’s position in this matter because of his nationality, but I can assure you that he makes it clear in this book and we would know why he does what he does. Frank Barat is a human right activist and coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
The book is divided into two parts: Dialog, and Reflection. The former discusses the past, the present and the future of Israel occupation on Palestine. The latter shares the thoughts on Gaza attack, Israel genocide, the partition in Palestine, deceiving ceasefire and closes with the letter addressed to UN by Noam Chomsky. They speak about BDS movement, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel, the analogy of South African genocide to Israel occupation on Palestine, US foreign policy and the support of US on Israel, and one-state or two-state solution.
Reading this book has opened my eyes to understand (a) the history of Israel occupation in Palestine, what they thought as an empty land and uninhabited; (b)what Zionism was and is; (c) and why they’re doing what they’re doing to achieve their goal, to have a state with a few Palestinian in it and it means that they need to suffer the Palestinians to their women and children by taking whatever is their basic needs.
We might see the present as brutal and inhumane, but what is happening will not stop when we let ourselves being ignorant and silent. Reading might be seen as passive action but educating ourselves is the root to the activism to the Palestinian cause. This book is light, straight-forward and very much relevant to the present. On Palestine is a starting point to make ourselves familiar with the Palestine/Israel discourse.
This book is a conversation and reflection between Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé as interviewed and edited by Frank Barat. Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé are two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine. Noam Chomsky has been a truth teller and vocal to the foreign policy of the US, especially regarding Israel and Palestine. I know some people are questioning Ilan Pappé’s position in this matter because of his nationality, but I can assure you that he makes it clear in this book and we would know why he does what he does. Frank Barat is a human right activist and coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
The book is divided into two parts: Dialog, and Reflection. The former discusses the past, the present and the future of Israel occupation on Palestine. The latter shares the thoughts on Gaza attack, Israel genocide, the partition in Palestine, deceiving ceasefire and closes with the letter addressed to UN by Noam Chomsky. They speak about BDS movement, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel, the analogy of South African genocide to Israel occupation on Palestine, US foreign policy and the support of US on Israel, and one-state or two-state solution.
Reading this book has opened my eyes to understand (a) the history of Israel occupation in Palestine, what they thought as an empty land and uninhabited; (b)what Zionism was and is; (c) and why they’re doing what they’re doing to achieve their goal, to have a state with a few Palestinian in it and it means that they need to suffer the Palestinians to their women and children by taking whatever is their basic needs.
We might see the present as brutal and inhumane, but what is happening will not stop when we let ourselves being ignorant and silent. Reading might be seen as passive action but educating ourselves is the root to the activism to the Palestinian cause. This book is light, straight-forward and very much relevant to the present. On Palestine is a starting point to make ourselves familiar with the Palestine/Israel discourse.