First published in 1995, this polemical study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new edition critically reexamines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light of the current failures of the peace process.
“Anyone interested in seeing justice brought to the MIddle East must read this book.” — Charles Glass, former ABC Middle East correspondent
“... both an impressive analysis of Zionist ideology and a searing but scholarly indictment of Israel’s treatment of the Arabs since 1948.” — London Review of Books
“The most revealing study of the historical background of the conflict.” — Noam Chomsky
“... a major contribution to the study of the Arab-Israeli conflict which deserves to be widely read, especially in the United States.” — Avi Shlaim, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
“Here is a book not to be missed.” — Le Monde Diplomatique
Norman G. Finkelstein teaches Political Theory and History at DePaul University. He is author (with Ruth Bettina Birn) of A Nation on Trial, named a notable book for 1998 by the New York Times Book Review, and The Holocaust Industry (Verso).
Publication
Cloth: April 2001
Paper: April 2003
286 pages
Paper
ISBN-13: 978 1 85984 442 7
US$22.95 / £15 / CAN$30
