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Title: Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians by Baruch Kimmerling ISBN: 1-85984-517-7 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: How to expel Palestinians: programs for an ethnic cleansing
Comment: This is a good book. It's not a perfect one - because, focussed as it is on the blaming of Sharon, it often forgets what the Israeli Labour party was able to do against Palestinians when it was its turn to hold power.
But this book is a timely one. Already in 2003, Baruch Kimmerling was able to point out to the risk that, should Sharon go on unhampered, he can reach his next objective: the expulsion of Palestinians from the land they live on. This can be obtained not only "by the sword", but by making their life impossible. And this is exactly what's happening: at the beginning of April, UNRWA had to stop the feeding of Gaza strip, because Israel had been successful in blocking its activities. Secondly, this book is prophetic for another reason: because it signalled that what Sharon wished to build up was a Palestinian "state" made up of non-communicating encalves. This is the project Bush signed, not many days ago. And the risk is that Palestinians, since this is a plan that none of them can approve, carry out other suicide bombers - alienating more and more the Israeli opposition, and intellectual public opinion overseas, away from them. The day public opinion only sees the suffering of Israeli civilians, and forgets about Palestinian deaths and hunger - the moment public opinion turns a blind eye on them - Sharon can do what he wishes
This is what we can read quite at the end of the book (p. 211): "All of these conditions are, according to Sharon, designed to lower Palestinian expectations crush their resistance, isolate them, make them submit to any arrangement suggested by the Israelis, and eventually cause their "voluntary" mass emigration from the land". So, Sharon's plans, and the way he wants to implement them, must be fully known; and this book must be read and widely distributed
Rating: 5
Summary: A portrait of a man and the Israeli Right
Comment: Politicide by Kimmerling, is in many ways remarkable as both Israeli historiography and as an Israeli political event: this detailed history by an internationally known member of the Israeli elite (Professor Baruch Kimmerling holds an appointment both at Hebrew University and at the University of Toronto, he is a sociologist) of Ariel Sharon is both an engaging portrait of a famous Israeli officer turned politician, and a succinct characterization of the politics of the Israeli right; the role of successive raids and many military provocations by the Israeli army that preceded all of their wars (with the Arabs); and, therefore and by extension, a description of the inherent violence of the Zionist state entity in its many faceted dealings with the Arabs, since 1948.
Details are provided the reader, as well, of IDF approved, or permitted, massacres of Palestinians in their refugee camps and villages , and other politically motivated murders: these events few of which are known outside of Israel are regarded (in context) as an integral part of the making of an important military career (within both the early culture of the IDF and that of Israeli popular culture too). This career is made visible by the present prime minister of Israel. Details of Ariel Sharon's early growing up and how this may have presaged the choices of the future man are also introduced .
The strategic Israeli plan that is presently being implemented now on the ground to create and maintain a kind of Bantustan out of all the West Bank areas (and Gaza too) is described as long held planning by some in the Israeli political and military elite, and as a personal 'vision' of Sharon and those in the Israeli Right, among them the settlers and their political parties. A vision which if fully implemented would mean, according to Professor Kimmerling, the extinction, for all practicable purposes, of the Palestinians as a recognizeable, historical entity. Kimmerling introduces to his readers the sociologist's technical term 'Herrenvolk' (roughly translated as 'master race' ) to describe present day Israeli (state) relations to all Palestinians, both those within , and without, the present Israeli borders. He frequently uses the term 'military settler society' to characterize present Israeli society (he has written about such things in professional journals) With a decent bibliography and a useful index.
Rating: 2
Summary: Politicide: The Cure for Insomnia
Comment: _Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians_ by the Israeli scholar Baruch Kimmerling is about the questionable career of Israel's current prime minister. Verso Books publishes it, the same house that published _The Holocaust Industry_ by Norman Finkelstein, and an imprint of the "New Left Books". As far as an indictment of the State of Israel, its leadership, its policies, and its "strategic relationship" with the United States goes, this is hardly the best book available. Kimmerling does a good job at defining what his title blurb "Politicide" means--the attempt to eradicate any influence a religion, ethnicity, nationality, etc., has in its own political affairs. To whit, this is what the State of Israel, especially as personified in the Ariel Sharon regime, is perpetrating on the native Arab Palestinians. The problem with _Politicide_ is it does not exactly define what kind of book it is supposed to be. Kimmerling states that he is writing an essay to get his point of Israel's tyranny in the Holy Land across, which is fine except that if his essay was not over 200 pages long. It would have been more interesting as a history, citing its sources, rather than presenting information as assumed knowledge. This is particularly important, as this subject should not be dismissed as the ranting of ultra-left, pro-Islamic fundamentalist, anti-American, pro-terrorist or Nazi apologist ideologues. Better books for those interested in the topic of Israel's relationship to the United States and its position in the Middle East (especially why the Islamic world is monolithically distrustful of Israel) are _Jewish Power_ by J. J. Goldberg, anything by Israel Shahak, and Verso's other title, _The Holocaust Industry_.
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Title: The Palestinian People : A History by Baruch Kimmerling, Joel S. Migdal ISBN: 0674011295 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Politics of Anti-Semitism by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair ISBN: 1902593774 Publisher: AK Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Reporting from Ramallah : An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land by Amira Hass ISBN: 1584350199 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 20 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent by Tom Segev, Jonathan Shainin, Roane Carey ISBN: 156584789X Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: A History of Modern Palestine : One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe ISBN: 0521556325 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 03 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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