The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid
Roane Carey, Ahdaf Soueif, Ali Abunimah, Alison Weir, Allegra Pacheco, Azmi Bishara, Edward W Said, Ghassan Andoni, Gila Svirsky, Glenn E Robinson
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- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781859843772
- Published:
- 17 Oct 2001
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Dimensions:
- 360 pages - 198 x 198 x 20mm
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- Out of stock
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Frustrated by the failure of the peace process to end the Israeli occupation, and outraged by Ariel Sharon's invasion, with one thousand armed guards, of the Al-Aqsa holy site in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian population of Israel and the Occupied Territories rose up in September 2000. A new intifada has raged ever since. In these pages, a group of writers and analysts, many of them directly involved in the conflict, trace the origins of the uprising, its consequences for the Palestinian people and the Israeli state, and its likely impact on the future of peace in the Middle East. They discuss the role of the United States in the conflict, pick apart the fraudulence of the Oslo accords, examine the brutal response of the Barak and Sharon governments, and critically appraise the strategy of the Palestinian leadership. In addition, several contributors provide eloquent first-hand reports from the front-line of the intifada-from the streets of Jerusalem and Gaza, to refugee camps in Lebanon and schools on the West Bank. Photographs provide searing testimony to the heroism and costs of the resistance. Maps illustrate the stranglehold Israel continues to exert over the Palestinian territories. The case for an international grassroots movement in support of Palestinian rights is made with urgency and persuasive clarity.
Frustrated by the failure of the peace process to end the occupation, the Palestinian population of Israel and the Occupied Territories rose up on 29 September 2000. In this book a group of leading spokespeople trace the course of the uprising and its consequences.
Roane Carey is the Managing Editor of the Nation, editor of The New Intifada and co-editor of The Other Israel. Azmi Bishara is a Palestinian public intellectual and theorist who was a member of the Knesset for 10 years, before being forced into exile by the Israeli state. He is a prolific writer, and has authored over twenty-five books on political theory, philosophy, Arab politics and the Palestinian cause. His book Sectarianism without Sects is forthcoming with Hurst Publishers. Dr Bishara is the director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College Cambridge, his celebrated works include Orientalism, The End of the Peace Process, Power, Politics and Culture, and the memoir Out of Place. He is also the editor, with Christopher Hitchens, of Blaming the Victims, published by Verso. New Left Review published an obituary in Nov-Dec 2003: http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2481 Omar Barghouti is a human rights activist, founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the BDS movement, and author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona. Author of American Power and the New Mandarins and Manufacturing Consent (with Ed Herman), among many other books, he is a linguist, historian, philosopher, and cognitive scientist who has risen to prominence in the American consciousness as a political activist and the nation's foremost public intellectual.