Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict is a book by Norman G. Finkelstein, first published in 1995. It is a study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
. Finkelstein examines and scrutinizes popular historical versions of the conflict by Joan Peters
, Benny Morris
, Anita Shapira
and Abba Eban
. The 2003 revised edition offers an additional appendix devoted to criticism of Michael Oren
's 2002 bestseller Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...
. Finkelstein examines and scrutinizes popular historical versions of the conflict by Joan Peters
Joan Peters
Joan Peters is a former CBS news producer of otherwise unnamed documentaries, and the author best known for a number of theses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, put forward in her book From Time Immemorial, published in 1984 in which she claims that the Palestinians are largely not indigenous...
, Benny Morris
Benny Morris
Benny Morris is professor of History in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Be'er Sheva, Israel...
, Anita Shapira
Anita Shapira
Anita Shapira is an Israeli historian. She is the founder of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, a Ruben Merenfeld Professor of the Study of Zionism and head of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University...
and Abba Eban
Abba Eban
Abba Eban was an Israeli diplomat and politician.In his career he was Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Education Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations...
. The 2003 revised edition offers an additional appendix devoted to criticism of Michael Oren
Michael Oren
Michael B. Oren is an American-born Israeli historian and author and the Israeli ambassador to the United States...
's 2002 bestseller Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Reception
- "The most revealing study of the historical background of the conflict." —Noam ChomskyNoam ChomskyAvram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
- "...both an impressive analysis of Zionist ideology and a searing but scholarly indictment of IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
's treatment of the Arabs since 1948." —London Review Of BooksLondon Review of BooksThe London Review of Books is a fortnightly British magazine of literary and intellectual essays.-History:The LRB was founded in 1979, during the year-long lock-out at The Times, by publisher A...
External links
- Review by Edna Homa Hunt, in WRMEA, August/September 1996, Page 63
- Review by Ronald Bleier in Middle East PolicyMiddle East PolicyMiddle East Policy is an academic peer-reviewed journal on the Middle East region in the field of foreign policy founded in 1982, published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Middle East Policy Council...
, Volume VII, Number 1 (October 1999). - Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict at Finkelstein's official website.