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The Plight of the Palestinians Also by William A. Cook A Time to Know Psalms for the 21st Century Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy The Unreasoning Mask (co-authored with Darcy Jones Cook) The Agony of Colin Powell Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied: The Rape of Palestine The Chronicles of Nefaria Decade of Deceit, 2002–2012: Reflections on Palestine (Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany) Age of Fools (Dandelion Books, Tempe, AZ) The Plight of the Palestinians A Long History of Destruction Edited by William A. Cook THE PLIGHT OF THE PALESTINIANS Copyright © William A. Cook, 2010. Corrected Printing 2010 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-10037-4 All rights reserved. First published in 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-28656-0 ISBN 978-0-230-10792-2 (eBook) DOI10.1057/9780230107922 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The plight of the Palestinians : a long history of destruction / edited by William A. Cook. p. cm. 1. Palestinian Arabs—Crimes against. 2. Palestinian Arabs— Government policy—Israel. 3. Palestinian Arabs—History—20th century. 4. Arab-Israeli conflict. I. Cook, William A. DS113.7.P57 2010 323.1192(cid:2)74—dc22 2009044766 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: June 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To the memory of the innocent victims of the Nakba and its aftermath. C O N T E N T S List of Graphs and Tables xi Foreword xiii Acknowledgments xvii Authors’ Biographies xix Introduction 1 William A. Cook Part 1 The Human Tragedy 27 One Israel’s Slow-Motion Genocide in Occupied Palestine 29 Steve Lendman (11-26-2008) Two Ongoing Palestinian Genocide 39 Gideon Polya (3-6-2008) Three The Lessons of Violence 43 Chris Hedges (1-28-2008) Four This Brutal Siege of Gaza Can Only Breed Violence 47 Karen Koning AbuZayd (1-23-2008) Five The Olive Trees of Palestine Weep 51 Sonja Karkar (9-7-2007) viii Contents Six Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust 55 Richard Falk (6-29-2007) Seven Gaza Is a Jail: Gaza Is Dying 63 Patrick Cockburn (9-8-2006) Eight The Shame of Being an American 67 Paul Craig Roberts (7-22-2006) Nine Israeli Immunity for Genocide 71 Andrea Howard (7-15-2006) Ten Palestinian Misery in Perspective 81 Paul de Rooij (6-3-2004) Eleven A Slow, Steady Genocide 91 Tanya Reinhart and Jon Elmer (9-11-2003) Part 2 Propaganda, Perception, and Reality 99 Twelve Gaza’s Holocaust 103 Dr. Elias Akleh (3-20-2008) Thirteen Big Bang or Chaos: What’s Israel Up To? 109 Ramzy Baroud (3-20-2008) Fourteen Israel Plots Another Palestinian Exodus 113 Jonathan Cook (3-10-2008) Fifteen America’s Armageddonites 119 Jon Basil Utley (10-11-2007) Sixteen Does It Matter What You Call It? Genocide or Erasure of Palestinians? 123 Kathleen and Bill Christison (11-27-2006) Contents ix Seventeen The Problem with Israel 135 Jeff Halper (11-23-2006) Eighteen Genocide Hides behind Expulsion 159 Adi Ophir (1-16-2004) Nineteen Palestine: The Final Solution and Jose Saramago 163 James Petras (4-2-2002) Twenty The British in Palestine, 1945–1948: A Conveniently Forgotten Holocaust 167 Robert Fisk (9-3-2002) Part 3 Rule by Law or Defiance 171 Twenty-One The Russell Tribunal on Palestine 173 Stephen Lendman (5-16-2009) Twenty-Two The Necessity of Cultural Boycott 177 Ilan Pappe (6-23-2009) Twenty-Three European Collusion in Israel’s Slow Genocide 181 Omar Barghouti (1-21-2008) Twenty-Four The Israeli Agenda and the Scorecard of the Zionist Power Configuration for 2008 185 James Petras (2-24-2008) Twenty-Five Genocide in Gaza 201 Ilan Pappe (2-20-2007) Twenty-Six Genocide among Us 207 Curtis F. J. Doebbler (1-28-2007) Twenty-Seven Bleaching the Atrocities of Genocide 213 Kim Petersen (6-7-2007)
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