About this title: First published in 1995, this highly acclaimed study scrutinizes popular and scholarly representations of the Israel-Palestine conflict. It begins with a novel theoretical interpretation of Zionism, and then moves on to critically engage the influential studies of Joan Peters, Benny Morris, and Anita Shapira. Carefully rehearsing the documentary record, Finkelstein also challenges the dominant images of the June 1967 and October 1973 Arab-Israeli wars. In a comprehensive new introduction, he provides the most succinct overview available in the English language of the Israeli-Palestine ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781859844427ISBN:1859844421
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. clean text, tight binding, minor shelf wear to cover/corners, nice reading copy, help support independent booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 287 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 2nd edition.
Binding: orig. wrappers
Publisher: Verso, London
Date Published: (2003)
Description: Minor rubbing. VG. 22x14cm, xxxviii, 287 pp, PAPERBACK. "This polemical study systematically undermines the popular and scholarly representations of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Opening with a theoretical discussion of Zionism and its roots, Norman Finkelstein goes on to look at the demographic origins of the Palestinians, referencing the work of Joan Peters and critiquing the influential studies of both Benny Morris and Anita Shapira, and closes by demonstrating that the casting of Israel as ... read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Verso
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781859840405ISBN:185984040X
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. shelf-aged NEW book w/ general cover wears. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VERSO
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781859844427ISBN:1859844421
Description: New. This polemical study systematically undermines the popular and scholarly representations of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Opening with a theoretical discussion of Zionism and its roots, Norman Finkelstein goes on to look at the demographic origins o... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: VERSO BOOKS
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781859843390ISBN:1859843395
Description: Ex-Library Published by Verso Books in 2001. Binding: Paperback. Number of pages: 224. Ex. Library copy-usual stamps and marks. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. #8488505 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
"A devastating rebuttal of the ludicrous notion (still floating around in some quarters of the US) that Palestine was largely unpopulated when confronted with Zionist colonization, and a powerful analysis of the conflict as a whole."
"In this book, Norman Finkelstein takes on some of the most pervasive myths surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, such as the idea that Palestine was "a land without people," that Palestinians were not expelled during the 1948 war, and narratives which cast Israel as the victim of wars in the last 35 years, rather than the aggressor. Finkelstein also includes an interesting chapter comparing the Zionist conquest myths with those of the European colonists in North America, South African settlers, and the Nazis.
The format of the book is to take each of these thematic topics in conjunction with a Zionist book as the foil. For instance, the chapter on the "land without people" myth uses Joan Peters's "monumental hoax" From Time Immemorial as its subject/foil. This works unevenly for Finkelstein. Some chapters this works quite well, such as the one on the Six Day War with Abba Eban's scholarship as its foil. Finkelstein has a relatively light touch in bringing Eban into the discussion. In other chapters, Finkelstein gets bogged down in minutiae and snagged in intricate discussion of footnotes. This is the major problem in the Joan Peters section, which is essentially unreadable to anyone without the in-depth knowledge of the book that Finkelstein has."
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