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aborham's review against another edition
4.0
A cleverly chronologically organized set of book reviews representing a critical view of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In addition to being a rich source of literature review for any Middle Eastern studies researcher.
ardavis414's review against another edition
4.0
Israel and Palestine is a great review of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If you are reading this book with previous well-rounded knowledge of the conflict, then this book won’t bring much more to the table for you. However, it did cause me to reevaluate the role of Saddam Hussein and Iraq within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the roots of the American invasion of 2003. Overall, it was well worth my time.
natlib91's review
1.0
author refuses to accept the idea that the zionist state is fundamentally settler-colonial in nature and rather decides to frame it as a good idea that went wrong in and around 1967. this requires him to skim over a lot of the detail regarding the british mandate period, the summary executions and brutal counter-insurgency campaign waged against the Palestinians
also requires him to accept the idea that the brits were an honest broker trying to make the best of a bad situation between two national liberation movements with equal rights to self-determination, telling each other distorted myths about their own histories, he pretty well says this directly in the book's second chapter
i understand the author is pro BDS but based on this its fairly clear they've very much held onto a certain liberal zionist outlook. not hugely surprised to see verso publishing and continuing to promote imperialist propaganda, but i wish they'd wish knock it off all the same
also requires him to accept the idea that the brits were an honest broker trying to make the best of a bad situation between two national liberation movements with equal rights to self-determination, telling each other distorted myths about their own histories, he pretty well says this directly in the book's second chapter
i understand the author is pro BDS but based on this its fairly clear they've very much held onto a certain liberal zionist outlook. not hugely surprised to see verso publishing and continuing to promote imperialist propaganda, but i wish they'd wish knock it off all the same
ilchinealach's review
1.0
author refuses to accept the idea that the zionist state is fundamentally settler-colonial in nature and rather decides to frame it as a good idea that went wrong in and around 1967. this requires him to skim over a lot of the detail regarding the british mandate period, the summary executions and brutal counter-insurgency campaign waged against the Palestinians
also requires him to accept the idea that the brits were an honest broker trying to make the best of a bad situation between two national liberation movements with equal rights to self-determination, telling each other distorted myths about their own histories, he pretty well says this directly in the book's second chapter
i understand the author is pro BDS but based on this its fairly clear they've very much held onto a certain liberal zionist outlook. not hugely surprised to see verso publishing and continuing to promote imperialist propaganda, but i wish they'd wish knock it off all the same
also requires him to accept the idea that the brits were an honest broker trying to make the best of a bad situation between two national liberation movements with equal rights to self-determination, telling each other distorted myths about their own histories, he pretty well says this directly in the book's second chapter
i understand the author is pro BDS but based on this its fairly clear they've very much held onto a certain liberal zionist outlook. not hugely surprised to see verso publishing and continuing to promote imperialist propaganda, but i wish they'd wish knock it off all the same
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