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Title: The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent by Tom Segev, Jonathan Shainin, Roane Carey ISBN: 1-56584-789-X Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Israeli Patriotism Reaches Heroic Levels In This Book
Comment: Finally, a book written by insiders in regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Certainly a rare find. This book is actually a compilation of papers/essays/letters written by numerous authors all of Israeli Jewish decent. Noted authors include Uri Avnery who fought in the '48 war and served in the Knesset, Ishai Menuchin who is a Major the Israel Defense Forces reserves, Dr. Yigal Shochat who served as a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force during the War of Attrition, as well as numerous well-known and published professors of Political Science, all of whom teach at universities across Israel.
The book subverts many myths about Israeli politics in the OPT, but it does not do so in a black and white manner as so many other books do. It is a critical analyses of how certain decisions by those in power are creating a threat not only to Israeli citizens within Israel proper, but also a to Israel's democracy itself. This book criticizes key flaws in Israeli politics in regard to the Palestinian issue and provides solutions in their place; rather than simply attack Israel for all it's worth.
In addition to the logical, critical, thought-provoking, Jewish-perspective information this book provides, it also serves to effectively undermine anti-Semitic attitudes towards Israel. Many other books simply criticize Israel without providing alternate solutions given from Israeli Jewish perspectives.. those types of books end up in the hands of some anti-Semites who use the text (most often taken out of context) as metaphorical ammunition. This book is no such source for such idiocy.
To criticize one's own government is nothing new, but to do so in such a well-articulated manner, without ostracizing 1000s of years of Jewish culture, and all the while defending democracy while putting your public reputation on the line is not only genius; it's heroic. Read this book!
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't buy this book
Comment: If you like lies, revisionist history, falsehood, and numbers without statistics to back them up, then this is the book for you. I would recommend Myths and Facts by Bard, From TIme Immorial by Joan Peters, and any book by Bernard Lewis.
Rating: 1
Summary: Hermetically sealed
Comment: This slight 200-page book is one of the best proofs I have seen to date that journalists consider all Israeli actions both falsely, and in a vacuum.
The book ostensibly concerns the Jewish presence in disputed areas. Yet the authors speciously claim Israel never offered Arab sovereignty there. Actually, Israel (and before that Zionist leaders) offered to recognize a sovereign 23rd Arab state at least 6 times through history--in 1937, 1948, 1967, 1977, 2000 and 2001, the last two under Arab fire. Each time, they were rejected.
Segev, Anthony Lewis, Jeff Halper, Amira Hass and other essayists make highly selective use of facts, incessantly invoke PA terminology and support Palestinian Authority "resistance," -- the PA euphemism that includes blowing women and children into tiny bits of flesh in cafes, pizza parlors and supermarkets. They don't acknowledge Israel's internationally established and recognized right to statehood. They don't acknowledge the most basic human right--to live free from fear or terrorism. They don't acknowledge the Arab wars and terrorism that have ceaselessly attempted to extinguish Israel's Jewish presence from the state's first moment.
Segev's forward discusses "the catastrophe that befell the 700,000 Arabs who emigrated, fled or were banished from their homes." He complains of Jewish "deception," while neglecting clear PA intentions to annihilate Israel, as stated in at least 36 clauses of the Palestine National Charter, which the PA has never revised or revoked (contrary to Segev's false contention). Segev is equally oblivious to the bellicose, Islamist PA Constitution and relentless official daily PA articles, sermons, editorials, cartoons, music videos and school lessons that intentionally cultivate hatred for Jews and Israel, to induce mass murder. Any Ha'aretz reporter should know, these genocidal documents and incitements violate the 1951 UN Genocide Convention, Oslo accords I and II, Hebron Protocol of January 15, 1997, 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights--and give Israel unconditional rights of self-defense. But Segev doesn't.
Segev also ignores the rights of over 1 million Jews driven from their homes in Arab lands in coordinated, preplanned government attacks throughout the Middle East from 1920 through 1979, often at the cost of their lives. This oversight is critical, since Segev and company invoke U.N. resolution 194 as if it covered only Arab refugees. But resolution 194 refers to "refugees," not "Arab refugees" alone--and thus applies equally to Mizrahi Jews, and millions of their descendants, who comprise roughly half Israel's Jewish population. Jewish victims of Muslim religious apartheid spent 55 years building new lives in a Jewish state. This does not diminish their equal right to recompense for houses, business, livelihoods and assets forcefully taken from them.
By ignoring Mizrahis, Segev and company falsely suggest that Israel was created by European Jewry, and conclude its sovereignty is therefore illegitimate. But Israel is as much a state of Middle Eastern Jews as others--and no more beholden to artificial moral constructs than any other democratic nation with democratically promulgated statutes.
The book unquestioningly accepts the supremacy of Arab claims over all other rights and claims. It examines Israel under a false moral magnifier, focusing exclusively on results, not the conflict's causes. But accuracy requires acknowledgment of Arab league and states' monolithic rejection of resolution 194, which merely suggested a "right of return"--only to those willing to "live at peace with their neighbors"--and resettlement and compensation for the rest. Israel cannot legitimately be faulted for Arab refusals of normalcy, nor collective Arab refusals to resettle Arab refugees as Israel did Middle Eastern Jews.
Concerning terror attacks since 2000 "against densely populated Israeli targets," the essayists neglect PA establishment since 1993 of a popular suicide culture. They barely notice illegal PA arms buildup, repression or corruption, much less the spike in Arab terrorism after 1993, that violated Oslo I and II provisions to unconditionally halt all violence and incitement. Forget that until 2000, Israel handed over land and governmental responsibilities, despite increases in terrorism and Jewish civilian casualties. Forget, lest readers believe Palestinians bear responsibility for their misery, or that Arab villages were "locked down" only after a decade of PA refusal to combat anti-Israel violence. No, Segev accuses Israelis of reverting to "a tribal, isolated, emotional, and nationalistic mood."
New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis carries this untenable position further, unquestioningly accepting PA dogma that Jewish "settlements" are the sole source of disagreement, although they consume less than 4% of the territory disputed. This specious argument forgets 1948 to 1967, and hundreds of Israeli civilians murdered in 3,500-plus cross-border Palestinian and Syrian Arab terror attacks--launched from the Jordan River's "West Bank," Egyptian controlled Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Israel then had no Jewish "settlements." It forgets thousands of Jordanian shells rained on Jerusalem in Tel Aviv in 1967, and former PA "Prime Minister" Abu Mazen's May 1974 order to murder 21 Ma'alot children and gravely injure 68 others (Jerusalem Post, Nov. 1, 1999).
Jeff Halper disparages Israel's by-pass roads, forgetting they were built only to avail residents of terror-free highways, not to destroy a potential Arab state. To these writers, the illegal 1948 Jordanian and Egyptian occupations of now-disputed lands bear no mention. The result is a hermetically sealed vacuum, in which Arabs bear no responsibility.
This essentially racist viewpoint absolves Arab leaders and states of all sins, including Arab ethnic cleansing of Jews from disputed areas in 1922, '29, '39 and '48, and 1948 removal of 100,000 Jews from East Jerusalem, two thirds of its population, to suddenly render a predominantly Jewish city "traditionally Arab." It falsely absolves Arab theft of large disputed tracts that Jews had purchased or owned rightfully under the 1858 Ottoman Land Law.
These Israeli essayists are "patriots" only by a myopic definition that whitewashes Arab wars and terrorism and blames Israel alone. To all others, this book's gross misrepresentations negate Israel's legitimacy, which seems to be the point.
--Alyssa A. Lappen
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Title: The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians by Michael Hoffman II, Moshe Lieberman ISBN: 0970378424 Publisher: Independent History Pub. Date: 29 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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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 (Semiotext(E) Active Agents Series) by Amira Hass, Rachel Leah Jones ISBN: 1584350199 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege by Amira Hass, Elana Wesley, Maxine Kaufman Lacusta ISBN: 0805057404 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart ISBN: 1583225382 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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