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This book offers chapters written by Chomsky just before the 2000 Intifada and up through October 2002, when 9-11 and a prospective military campaign against Iraq add new pressures to age-old conflicts.

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ISBN-13:	9780742529779
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.05(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Noam Chomsky, author of more than 80 books, is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He speaks regularly to audiences in the United States and throughout the world. The New York Times has described him as "an exploder of received truths."

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Part I: Peace in the Middle East? The 1967 War and the 1970s Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1. Nationalism and Conflict in Palestine Chapter 5 2. A Radical Perspective Chapter 6 3. Reflections on a National Conflict Chapter 7 4. The Fourth Round Chapter 8 5.The Peace Movement and the Middle East Chapter 9 Part II: Intifada, Israel and the United States at the turn of the Millenium Chapter 10 6. The "Peace Process" in U.S. Global Strategy Chapter 11 7. Prospects for Peace in the Middle East Chapter 12 8. Al-Aqsa Intifada Chapter 13 9. United States-Israel-Palestine Chapter 14 Part III: A Changed World? Chapter 15 10. After 9/11: The "War on Terror" Redeclared

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Editorial Reviews

In Middle East Illusions, Noam Chomsky proposes an alternative resolution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine and questions the territory’s strategic and economic importance to the industrial powers, most notably the United States.

Z Magazine

Answers divisive questions about the Israeli-Arab policy and U.S. involvement in the Middle East.

Foreword Reviews

An intriguing, scholarly analysis of fateful errors and lasting impacts.

The Bookwatch

Acting as a deliberately provocative American conscience, Chomsky argues that Israel behaves like a colonial power in the Occupied Territories. His indictments of casual American hypocrisy and abuse of power are important, and his thesis that Israel's actions, far from enhancing its security, compromise it by polarizing opinion both within Israel and beyond is reasonable.

Sunday Times

This is a lucid, well-documented, first-class book that should be in every library.

Day By Day

It's impossible not to agree with him most of the time, and I've yet to find a book of his that doesn't sell.

The Bookseller

Answers divisive questions about the Israeli-Arab policy and U.S. involvement in the Middle East.

Foreword Magazine

After 9/11 everything we were selling was an analysis of the Middle East. I've ordered 100 copies of Chomsky's new one, Middle East Illusions.--Edward Nawotka "Publishers Weekly "

It's impossible not to agree with him most of the time, and I've yet to find a book of his that doesn't sell.--The Bookseller

Acting as a deliberately provocative American conscience, Chomsky argues that Israel behaves like a colonial power in the Occupied Territories. His indictments of casual American hypocrisy and abuse of power are important, and his thesis that Israel's actions, far from enhancing its security, compromise it by polarizing opinion both within Israel and beyond is reasonable.--Sunday Times

From the Publisher

Chomsky's scathing indictments of U.S. foreign policy have long divided readers, and this collection of essays about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is likely to do the same. Written during the last 30 years, these pieces display many characteristics of Chomsky's thought: a deep mistrust of U.S. and Israeli intentions and a desire to change the course of history. Chomsky is erudite, and some of the points are now standard in discussion about the Middle East, such as the contradiction of Israel being both a Jewish state and a democracy. But Chomsky reprints numerous dated talks-and some of these, while interesting historical relics, contain statements that haven't stood the test of time, such as a 1969 observation that "[b]oth international and domestic factors are more conducive to a peaceful resolution of the conflict than has been the case for some time." More recent pieces attack the Oslo peace process, which he sees as "neocolonialist" and resembling South African apartheid. Chomsky's alternative-a binational state-seems highly unlikely given the violence of the past few years. This book is also intriguing for what it omits: in his historical roundup, for instance, Chomsky fails to mention violent Arab riots against Jews before Israel's founding in 1948. For some leftist critics of the U.S. and Israel, this book will ring true. But for many readers-perhaps even some who read Chomsky's bestselling 9-11-it will seem one-sided. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Answers divisive questions about the Israeli-Arab policy and U.S. involvement in the Middle East.

ForeWord Reviews

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