Fateful Triangle:
The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians
(Updated Edition)
by Noam Chomsky
Foreword by Edward W. Said
South End Press 1999; ISBN 0-896-08601-1
"First published in 1983, Fateful Triangle is a comprehensive indictment of what Noam Chomsky calls the 'disgraceful and extremely dangerous' policy the United States has enacted towards Israel, particularly with regard to Israel's actions concerning the Palestinians.
"Supporters of Israel must willfully overlook or deny that nation's long history of human rights violations and military aggression, Chomsky writes, and they will continue to do so as long as Israel is strategically useful towards 'the U.S. aim of eliminating possible threats, largely indigenous, to American domination of the Middle East region.'
"In the course of elaborating his argument, Chomsky cuts through the myths and distortions that appear in mainstream media accounts; the damning facts that he so systematically assembles portray a government more brutally and overtly racist, perhaps, than even apartheid-era South Africa.
"Three new chapters, drawing upon material from Z magazine and other publications, incorporate such developments as the Palestinian uprising, Israel's war on Lebanon, and the ongoing "peace process."
— Editorial Review
Amazon.com
"Chomsky's seminal tome on Mideast politics has become a classic in the fields of political science and Mideast affairs. For its tenth printing, Chomsky has added chapters bringing the book completely up to date, with a new preface by Chomsky, a new foreword from Palestinian author and activist Edward W. Said, and new material on the Intifada, the ongoing Israeli-PLO 'peace process' (including the Oslo and Wye accords), and Israel's war against Lebanon."
The Question of Palestine
by Edward W. Said
Vintage Books 1992; ISBN 0-679-73988-2
"In these times of turmoil, this is an essential reading for anyone looking to better understand why [Israel] a nation partly built by extermination camp survivors is now creating an apartheid nation, shooting 9-year old children in the head and forming a bantustan in Gaza and other occupied territories. All of this with the full support from the US, a kind of blind support the South African white regime was never allowed to enjoy."
— Reda
Amazon.com reviewer from New York
A Land without a People:
Israel, Transfer and the Palestinians, 1949-96
by Nur Masalha, Palestinian-Israeli scholar
"Details how the Zionists planned and implemented programmes to rid the 'Promised Land' of its native people. He explains that this policy continued well after the 1948-49 war and involved not just the politicians and military forces, but also Israeli intellectuals. It included transfer, massacres — as in the case of Kfir Qasim — housing demolitions and expulsions."
Expulsion of the Palestinians:
The Concept of 'Transfer' in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948
by Nur Masalha
Institute for Palestine Studies
1992; ISBN 0-887-28242-3
"Almost entirely based on declassified Israeli archival materials, Dr. Masalha's sober and carefully researched account shows conclusively that 'transfer' — a euphemism for expulsion — was from the start an integral part of Zionism... (an) impressive and timely book... quietly devastating research...
— Rt. Hon. Lord Gilmore
The Guardian (London)
"[Dr. Masalha] shows using documents from the Israeli archives, that the flight of the Arab population from what became Israel in 1948 — which Israel's first president, Chiam Weizmann hailed as 'a miraculous clearing of the land' — was in fact 'less than a miracle than the culmination of over a half century of effort, plans and (in the end) brute force'.
— Edward Mortimer
Financial Times
All That Remains:
The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948
by Walid Khalidi (Editor)
Institute for Palestine Studies
1992; ISBN 0-887-28224-5
"...a very significant encyclopedic work... the book represents an indispensable basic research tool... a dazzling achievement.. "— Benny Morris
Ha'Aretz
The Founding Myths of Israel
by Ze'ev Sternhell, Israeli historian
Princeton University Press; ISBN 0-691-00967-8
"[A] fiercely polemical — but assiduously researched — demolition job on...comfortable myths... The central myth Sternhell attacks is that of the socialist, liberal and democratic values of Israel's pioneers."
— Stephen Howe
The Independent
Operation Babylon
by Shlomi Hillel
"The case of the Iraqi Jews is the most well known, and is documented in several books. The Zionist underground, backed by Mossad le-Aliya, the forerunner of the Israeli security service, sent agents provocateurs abroad to create conditions whereby Jews would leave their homes and come to Israel. As a result of Mossad activities, in the space of a few weeks more than 120, 000 Jews — almost the entire community in Iraq — were forced to leave their homes and possessions for Israel. Until the onset of Zionist-Palestinian conflict and the inflaming of political tensions by Britain's stooge regime under King Feisal and Prime Minister Nuri Said in Iraq, Jews had lived there without incident for 2, 500 years, since the Babylonian exile from biblical Palestine."
The Real Terror Network:
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
by Edward S. Herman
See the excerpt:
Israel's Sacred Terrorism
The Rise and Fall of Palestine:
A Personal Account of the Intifada Years
by Norman G. Finkelstein
University of Minnesota Press 1996; ISBN 0-816-62859-9
Zionism in the Age of Dictators
by Lenni Brenner
Lawrence Hill & Co; ISBN 0-882-08163-2
The Making of the Arab Israeli Conflict 1947-51
by Ilan Pappe
I B Tauris & Co Ltd; ISBN 1-850-43819-6
The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation
by Abram Leon
Pathfinder Press; ISBN 0-873-48134-8
The Jewish Exodus from Iraq 1948-1951
by Moshe Gat
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American-Israeli Terrorism of the Palestinian People
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JewsNotZionists.org
http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/
"There are in fact many Jewish movements, groups and organizations whose ideology regarding Zionism and the so-called 'State of Israel' is that of the unadulterated Torah position that any form of Zionism is heresy and that the existence of the so-called 'State of Israel' is illegitimate."
The Electronic Intifada
http://electronicintifada.net/new.html
"A Resource for Countering Myth, Distortion and Spin from the Israeli Media War Machine.""The Electronic Intifada project is a focused network of pro-Palestinian activists with a history of Internet and media activism. The project aims to focus on just one aspect of the struggle, the war in the media for a representation of the Palestinian point of view."
Institute for Palestine Studies
http://www.ipsjps.org/
"The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), founded in Beirut in 1963, is an independent nonprofit research and publication center, not affiliated with any political organization or government. IPS promotes research, analysis, and documentation on the Arab-Israeli conflict and its peaceful resolution."
Zionism's legacy of ethnic cleansing
Part 1: Israel and the Palestinian right of return
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jan2001/pal1-j22.shtml
"While many Palestinians fled to avoid the war [of 1948], most left out of fear of what might happen to them at the hands of Zionist terrorists. One of the most notorious incidents was the Deir Yassin massacre where 250 men, women and children were murdered in cold blood by Menachem Begin's Irgun group, as it went from house to house to drive out the Palestinians."
Zionism's legacy of ethnic cleansing
Part 2: Israeli expansion creates more Palestinian refugees
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jan2001/pal2-j23.shtml
"The tragic irony of the Zionist solution to the oppression of the Jewish people — traditionally and historically connected with a struggle for tolerance and freedom — has been the brutal suppression of another oppressed people [the Palestinians]. In consequence, the right-wing forces cultivated by the Zionist state now threaten to reproduce within Israel the same conditions of dictatorship and civil war from which an earlier generation of Jews fled."
Israel's war measures and the legacy of Zionism
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/oct2000/mide-o16.shtml
"Israel was established through a military struggle to wrest control of the land from its Arab inhabitants, beginning with a systematic campaign of terror and intimidation that drove more than three quarters of a million Palestinian Arabs from their homes."The founding principle of the Israeli state was the assertion of the ethnic and religious interests of Jews over those of Arab Muslims. Any criticism of this inherently anti-democratic and repressive standpoint was denounced by Israel's Zionist rulers and their apologists as an expression of anti-Semitism.
"In order to justify Israel's creation, Zionist leaders for 40 years denied the very existence of a Palestinian people. Their central slogan was: "A land without people for a people without land." In official proclamations, the land that became Israel was portrayed as largely uninhabited prior to the arrival of Jewish settlers."
WSWS : News & Analysis : Israel and Palestine
http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/news/me-peace.shtml
This is the index page for an extensive collection of news articles and high-quality analysis. The articles deal with both the brutal Israeli terrorism and oppression of the Palestinian people, and the internal condition of Jewish Israeli society itself.
The political dead end of Labour Zionism:
Part 1 — The origins and class character of political Zionism
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/zio1-a05.shtml
"The core premise of Zionism was that Jews everywhere constituted a single nation with permanent and exclusive rights to occupy Palestine land. This was embodied in the slogan, 'A land without people for a people without land'. But Palestine was not an uninhabited territory. A Zionist state for the Jews in Palestine could only be established at the expense of the existing population. The very conception of the Zionist state was based upon profoundly undemocratic principles: the denial of the rights of non-Jews already living there."
Part 2 — The convergence of the Labour Zionists and Revisionist Zionism
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/zio2-a06.shtml
Part 3 — The June 1967 "Six Day War" — A turning point in the evolution of Israel
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/zio3-a07.shtml
"The Zionist utopia of a national state in which the Jews of the world could find liberty, equality and social justice has been realised in the form of a capitalist entity created through the dispossession of another people. It has been maintained through brutal wars and repression beyond Israel's borders, and mounting social inequality at home. As the murderous actions of the extreme right-wing zealots cultivated by the Zionist state have shown, there is a real danger that Israel will itself reproduce the very conditions of dictatorship and civil war from which earlier generations of European Jews had fled."