Noam Chomsky is the bestselling author of over 100 influential
political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial
Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes
and Prospects, Making the Future, On Anarchism, Masters of Mankind
and Who Rules the World. He has also been the subject of numerous
books of biography and interviews and has collaborated with
journalists on books such as Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On
Palestine.
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of
Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms
Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the
University of Arizona.
Although much of the material collected here precedes Israel's recent military attack on a Gaza-bound international flotilla of embargo-breaking humanitarian aid, this succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays from the renowned linguist and activist Chomsky (Hopes and Prospects) and prominent Israeli historian Pappe (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine) gives essential context to the crisis. The reader will find Chomsky's consistent positions on everything from the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the issue of a one- versus two-state settlement. Pappe adds vital and unexpected historical background, including a chapter on the deep American evangelical roots in the support of Zionism and the birth of modern Arab nationalism in Palestine. Pappe and Chomsky are not perfectly in synch on every point: Chomsky remains skeptical of an academic boycott of Israel, for instance, called for in the past by Pappe and others. But the fundamentals of the crisis-and its scale in humanitarian, moral and political terms-are clear, as well as clearly expressed, between them. This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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