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Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion | |
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by Ramzy Baroud (Editor)
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The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid | |
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by Roane Carey (Editor), et al (Paperback - October 2001)
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Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance, A | |
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by Mary Elizabeth King,Jimmy Carter
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Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada | |
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by Wendy Pearlman, Laura Junka (Photographer) In 2000, Pearlman, a Jewish doctoral student in Middle East politics and longtime human rights activist, spent six months living and studying in the West Bank. Her book grows out of her sojourn and "provide[s] a window into the human dimension of their struggle" by letting the Palestinians speak for themselves. | ||
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Editorial Review by a Reader from Washington, DC, posted on Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003 When the occupied territories exploded following the collapse of the Camp David talks and Ariel Sharon's inflammatory visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Wendy Pearlman, a young Jewish woman from Nebraska, immersed herself amongst ordinary Palestinians and, a la Studs Terkel, recorded their lives. A remarkable oral narrative emerges from the school principals, professors, TV reporters, school kids, mothers, doctors, engineers, filmmakers, shop owners, victims of shellings and forced house removals that spoke to her: "The personal stories and heartfelt reflections that I encountered did not expose a hatred of Jews or a yearning to push Israelis into the sea. Rather, they painted a portrait of a people who longed for precisely that which had inspired the first Israelis: the chance to be citizens in a country of their own." Containing over thirty searing oral testimonies, this is one of the first books to tell the Palestinian story from the point of view of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. | ||
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From Booklist by a Reader from Washington, DC, posted on Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003 After the peace process in the Middle East broke down in 2000, the author, "a Jewish girl from Nebraska," was moved to visit Israel and speak to ordinary Palestinians living in the middle of the second Intifada (mass uprising). She spoke with doctors and educators, journalists and businessmen, homeowners and students, assembling a collage of memory and emotion. Each interview is preceded by a lengthy introduction that supplies historical and social contexts. | ||
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Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising | |
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by Don Peretz
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The classic! by a Reader from Washington, DC, posted on Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003 Many books have been written about the (1st) Intifada or Palestinian Uprising. This one certainly deserves its reputation as the "classic" account of this uprising. It is quite detailed and yet sees the Intifada from a broad perspective. Whereas so many books on the topic focus exclusively on the military or economic aspects of this conflict, this book treats the broader social and cultural issues. A whole chapter, for example, is devoted to the social effects of the Intifada on Israeli society. Few books broach the relationship of military service in such a conflict to domestic and criminal violence at home, in such deep analysis as Peretz does in this one chapter. Another chapter is devoted to social changes in Palestinian society, in particular the role of women. Everything is backed up with detailed notes, facts, and figures, and a beautiful selection of symbolic photographs. My only regret is that the book has not been brought up to date - it was written in 1989, in the heat of the conflict. But then perhaps that was a good thing. | ||
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Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement | |
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by Josie Sandercock, Nicholas Blincoe, Hussein Khalili, Marissa McLaughlin (Editors) The story of this movement reveals the horror of the occupation and the new hope for growing international solidarity. | ||
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Editorial Review by a Reader from Washington, DC, posted on Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003 The story of this movement reveals the horror of the occupation and the new hope for growing international solidarity. The last two years have been the most brutal in the entire thirty-six year history of Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; indeed the most violent since the creation of Israel itself. The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was founded as a peaceful resistance to that violence. Its highly visible actions, which have included breaking the sieges in Ramallah and Bethlehem, as well as saving countless lives, have shone a spotlight on Israel's occupation. Outlawed in Israel and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the ISM has threatened the governing coalition with fears that Israeli opinion might at last be turning against them. In showing what risks Palestinians take, ISM volunteers have also tragically been targeted. The deaths of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, as well as the shootings of Kate Edwards, Caoimhe Butterley and Brian Avery, have never been fully explained, covered up in the US and UK and brushed aside in Israel-an unfortunate consequence of Israel's "war on terror." Collecting previously published news articles on the movement, giving accounts drawn from web-logs and diaries as they happened, and including last writings of the murdered American Rachel Corrie and contributions from the Hurndall family, Peace Under Fire reveals the real horror of life under occupation and describes the first signs of a new wave of international solidarity. 20 b/w illustrations. | ||
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Palestine | |
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by Joe Sacco
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Very Good Art, Accurate, Inspired, Like TinTin by a Reader from Maryland, posted on Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003 I totally enjoyed reading "Palestine". At first, I didn't know what to expect from a cartoon book like this. However Sacco brilliantly displays his mastery of the cartoon medium, using it to convey very complex ideas and make it understandable and tangible. His characters look so realistic they are almost ready to jump out of the page. I have one Palestinian friend and from what I know the characters and setting are very accurate representations of the people and landscape. The events that take place are also an accurate portrayal of the events in the early 1990s, towards the end of the first Palestinian uprising (or Intifada) against Israeli domination. One particularly memorable sketch is of that old man on p. 62 who describes how the Israelis destroyed his farm, kicked him out of his land, and uprooted his olive trees in order to make room for additional Jewish-only "settlements". "It was like watching my children being killed in front of my eyes" he says about the Olive trees, while in Sacco's sketch you can see the tear-ducts frozen in wrinkles on the man's face. I never appreciated the misery of Palestinians until I read this book. I enjoyed this book so much I absolutely HAD to get Sacco's other books. Notes From a Defeatist represents his earlier works and as thus his skills as a cartoonist are not as well developed as here. The works contained there are generally shorter, too, preventing him from fully developing a topic. Still, it is an interesting and exciting reading, the part on the first war with Iraq is just as applicable today as 12 years ago. The other major Sacco work "Safe Area Gorazde" is truly another masterpiece. I never thought I would ever be able to understand the complexities of the Bosnian conflict until I read Sacco's book which not only told me with words but showed me with pictures what had happened. The same is true with "Palestine", which takes perhaps a more important role now as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is STILL going on. If you like to understand what is happening there, and like to read a good enjoyable book, get it. It is money and time well-spent. | ||
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What is it like being a Palestinian? Why should you care? by a Reader from Washington, DC, posted on Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003 Starting with a typical attitude of "Who cares?" Sacco shows us how his visit to the West Bank and Gaza in the early 1990s transformed him completely. Palestinians have much against them in today's world, not least the stereotypes of "supporting terror" etc, etc that the Israeli propaganda machine heaps on them every day. These stereotypes create a formidable barrier between the Palestinian people and Americans. Americans do not feel like they should even pay attention to these "insignificant terrorists" - and that is precisely the goal of the propagandists in the first place: to silence the Palestinians and prevent their very humanity (let alone their message) from being recognized. Enter Joe Sacco! With master strokes of a cartoonist's pencil, he succeeds Single-handedly in shattering those barriers. For the first time in an American publication, you actually see Palestinians as people, you enter their households, you talk to them, you listen to their problems, and you think about it. Well, so what? If you always thought that the middle east problem is "too complicated" or "has been going on for too long" to be able to understand it, it is time to get out your credit card and buy this book now. In the most enjoyable cartoon style that makes it hard for you to let go of the book, you will see things like you've never witnessed them before. This is the raw human story, not the clinically sterilized CNN version of events, or the dry history book polemics. I guarantee that after reading Sacco's Palestine, something will click and you will finally understand what's been going on, more clearly than you ever have before. WARNING: Not for the faint of heart! | ||
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The Intifada: Causes and Effects (Publications of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv university, No. 16) | |
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by Aryeh Shalev
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Matter-of-factly Analysis of first Palestinian Intifada by a Reader from Washington, DC, posted on Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003 The author was a retired IDF officer and former military ruler of the West Bank, so he definitely knows his subject matter very well. Hired by the Israeli government to produce a factual analysis of the causes of the first Intifada and the ways it can be stopped. The document produced is thorough and factual and quite matter-of-factly in its presentation. It comes to the conclusion that the disturbances of the Intifada are caused primarily by the desire of the Palestinians to divest themselves from Israeli rule. This, according to Shalev, the Intifada cannot be stopped by military means alone and needs to be addressed by a political process. Though technical and full of notes and appendices, this factual study is easily readable and accessible to the general reader. I highly recommend it as I found it quite informative and useful for understanding the situation in the Middle East. | ||
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When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege | |
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by Raja Shehadeh
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