Speaking the Truth - Zionism, Israel, and Occupation
edited by Michael Prior, foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

In this collection of original essays, 12 internationally respected scholars and experts examine the ethical and strategic issues of the Palestine-Israel conflict, and offer us a rare window into the realities behind Israel's military occupation. It is an essential resource for anyone who wishes to understand the causes, underlying tensions, injustices and the tragically ongoing occupation.

From the Foreword
"In our struggle for justice and peace in South Africa we had to learn to speak-and listen to-hard truths. Our experience should encourage all who strive for justice and peace in the Holy Land. My visits to the Holy Land remind me so much of South Africa: apartheid is back, complete with the 'Separation Wall' and bantustans. History, it seems, repeats itself. Yet, if peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come also to the Holy Land. I welcome this book that exposes some of the hardest truths about Israel-Palestine. The distinguished contributors-from Israel, Palestine, the US, the UK and Ireland, women and men, Jews, Christians and Muslims-speak their Truth. Reconciliation will follow later."
-Archbishop Desmond Tutu

About the Editor
Rev. Dr. Michael Prior , CM, is Professor of Bible and Theology at St. Mary's College at the University of Surrey in England, where he is also Senior Research Fellow in Holy Land Studies. He is the editor of Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal and the author of numerous books, including Christians in the Holy Land (1994), Western Scholarship and the History of Palestine (1998), Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Inquiry (1999), Holy Land - Hollow Jubilee: God, Justice and the Palestinians (1999), and They Came and They Saw: Western Christian Experiences of the Holy Land (2000).

Reviews
"Professor Said is adept at holding a mirror up to American attitudes toward Islam.... [He] skillfully traces the origins of American misinformation about Islam to the way that Orientalist scholarship is financed and organized in this country. And finally he pleads eloquently for the instrumentality of all historical knowledge and the needs of all scholars to be aware of their objectives in order to acquire that knowledge usefully. This plea amounts to a prescription for cultural self-awareness that will be wasted on none of us."
- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Book Review

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