"Disappearing Palestine"

Advance praise:

“This is an impressive and timely book written by one of the most
knowledgeable writers on the Palestine-Israel conflict. Its insight into the
devastating impact of Zionist settler colonialism and its account of the
current reality on the ground are unique. A must read for those seeking
peace and justice in the Middle East.”

Nur Masalha, Director of the Holy Land Research Project, St Mary’s
University College (UK), and author of The Bible and Zionism (2007)

“No one is a keener observer of Zionism’s true goals, from its bald
usurpation of land and resources to its bad faith about seeking real peace.
The book provides an unusual depth of evidence and sharp analysis, and a
devastating indictment of Zionism. It is a penetrating piece of scholarship
and a gem of easy readability.”

Kathleen Christison, former CIA analyst and author of Perceptions of
Palestine (1999)


From the back cover:

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.

About the author:

Jonathan Cook is the only western journalist to be based in Nazareth, the
capital of the Palestinian minority in Israel. He was previously a staff
journalist on the Guardian and Observer newspapers, and has written about
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict also for the Times, Le Monde diplomatique,
the International Herald Tribune, Al-Ahram Weekly, Counterpunch and
Aljazeera.net. He is the author of Blood and Religion (2006) and Israel and
the Clash of Civilisations (2008).



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