Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Norman Finkelstein)

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
by Norman Finkelstein

First published in 1995, this highly acclaimed study scrutinizes popular and scholarly representations of the Israel-Palestine conflict. It begins with a novel theoretical interpretation of Zionism, and then moves on to critically engage the influential studies of Joan Peters, Benny Morris, and Anita Shapira. Carefully rehearsing the documentary record, Finkelstein also challenges the dominant images of the June 1967 and October 1973 Arab-Israeli wars. In a comprehensive new introduction, he provides the most succinct overview available in the English language of the Israel-Palestine conflict, while in several new chapters he juxtaposes Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories against South African apartheid, and demolishes the scholarly pretentions of Michael Oren's recent bestseller on teh June 1967 war.

About the Author
Norman G. Finkelstein teaches Political Theory and History at the City University of New York. He is author (with Ruth Bettina Birn) of A Nation on Trial, named a notable book for 1998 by the New York Times Book Review, and The Holocaust Industry.

Reviews
"The most revealing study of the historical background of the conflict."
— Noam Chomsky

"Anyone interested in seeing justice brought to the MIddle East must read this book."
— Charles Glass, former ABC Middle East correspondent

“… both an impressive analysis of Zionist ideology and a searing but scholarly indictment of Israel’s treatment of the Arabs since 1948.”
— London Review of Books

"… a major contribution to the study of the Arab-Israeli conflict which deserves to be widely read, especially in the United States.”
— Avi Shlaim, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University

"Here is a book not to be missed."
— Le Monde Diplomatique