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Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation | 
 enlarge | Author: Saree Makdisi
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0393066061
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.953044
EAN: 9780393066067
ASIN: 0393066061
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
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How the "peace process" has made life impossible for ordinary Palestinians.
This book is not about suicide bombers. Tending one's fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such everyday activities require negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures, "sterile roads" and "seam zones"—bureaucratic hurdles ultimately as deadly as outright military incursion.
Not since the late Edward Said has there been such an articulate Arab voice on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In devastating detail, Saree Makdisi reveals how the "peace process" institutionalized Palestinians' loss of control over their inner and outer lives. He shows how Israel's massive concrete walls going up around Gaza and the West Bank isolate communities from their lands, their livelihoods, and each other. Through eye-opening statistics and day-by-day reports, we learn how Palestinians have seen their hopes for freedom and statehood culminate in the creation of abject "territories" comparable to open-air prisons.
Anyone surprised at Arab anger or the election of Hamas must read this book. 33 photographs, 12 maps.
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A must read for understanding the conflict August 15, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've been studying the Israel/Palestine issue for almost 18 years now and I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territories twice and I can't recall a single book that has taught me more about the conflict than this one. Instead of focusing on history, politics, and suicide bombers as most books do, this one documents the daily occupation and how it plays out in the daily lives of Palestinians. It is absolutely appalling and eye-opening. More than once, I'm sure my jaw literally dropped open when confronted with the realities of what the occupation means. This book should undoubtedly be on the reading list of every member of Congress and every American citizen.
Palestine Inside Out July 17, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have been involved for some years in pro-Palestinian activism, and have read innumerable books on the subject. Nonetheless, Makdisi's book presented the stark facts of Israeli occupation with such vividness that I felt I was learning them - and raging and weeping at them - for the first time. There were times when Makdisi's sober, understated account of intolerable injustice forced me to put the book down; sometimes I didn't take it up again for days - but I always did take it up again.
Makdisi has an honourable pedigree: his uncle was the late Edward Said, for several decades not alone the leading advocate of Palestinian rights in the unfriendly environment of the USA, but also one of the world's leading intellectuals and literary critics. Makdisi is American-Lebanese-Palestinian, a mixture that renders him particularly qualified to approach his painful subject from a multitude of perspectives. As professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA and an expert on the poetry of English romanticism, he can hardly be caricatured by the ill-intentioned as some wild-eyed anti-Western fanatic (although given the bloodsoaked history of Western interference in the rest of the world, of which the fate of Palestine is a particularly poignant example, it's perhaps time that more conscientious Westerners adopted such "fanaticism").
"Palestine Inside Out" isn't a history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, although it necessarily incorporates much historical reflection, but an anlysis of the "facts on the ground" created by Zionism and its US and EU backers, whereby Palestinian Arabs - Muslims and Christians - are deprived of human and political rights while simultaneously being demonised for resisting this state of affairs. Makdisi sees that Israel, the US and EU (and indeed the PLO) have jointly rendered impossible the two-state solution they all profess to support. His conclusions about a political solution will be uncomfortable for those who have pre-formed views on the matter - but his premises are supplied by the aforementioned "facts on the ground", and I believe that none but the most ingrained prejudices can withstand such a marshalling of evidence.
It is on the reef of Palestine that all narratives of progress in the field of political justice come to grief, and it is Palestine that reveals most nakedly the hollowness and hypocrisy of Western rhetoric concerning democracy and the rule of international law.
"Palestine Inside Out" could be subtitled "The World Inside Out". Read it, and be inspired to protest and take action against the conditions - or against your governments' support for the conditions - that make such injustice possible.
occupation=murder July 12, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
everybody knows that the zionists have destroyed the peaceful palestinian community and replaced it with a violent police state intent upon extermination of the indigenous inhabitants of the so called holy land. this book details the sixty plus years of jewish inhumanity and criminality towards all people who are not part of their exclusionary cabal, including jews who don't agree with the concept of a jewish only state. the whole edifice is base upon lies and will soon be over. long live palestine!
 What are the alternatives ? July 11, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is an excellent account of personal stories of
individual Palestinians living in the territories.
For instance, the book begins with Sam Bahour- a
Palestinian who was told to leave the West Bank
by the State of Israel through the prism of the
Palestinian Authority. Sam recounts renewing a
number of personal visas over a period of time.
According to the author, the Israeli military
must give its permission for work permits in order
for Palestinian farmers to grow crops on the land
on the west side. Approximately 40% of the West Bank
is subject to an Israeli infrastructure and the military.
According to the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights, Israel
continues to build walls along the West Bank. In the
future, the Israelis will be able to stop communication
between the Palestinians by simply closing strategic
bridges and tunnels. Currently, there is a wall under
construction circa Jerusalem.
The book is replete with heart rendering pictures of
Palestinians importuned on long lines at checkpoints
together with extensive traffic jams. Overall, the work
presents a side of Palestinian life not well known
in the Americas or elsewhere for that matter.
The reader is left in a bind. That is, how could the
predicament be remedied? Ostensibly, these checkpoints
are in response to routine bus bombings and numerous
acts of disobedience by the radical Jihad and others.
Checkpoints and walls can come down when the requisite
trust has been earned on both sides. This process can
happen in response to peace and quiet as a prelude to
tearing down walls. I was struck by the long lines on
the roads and checkpoints. Alternatively, mass
transportation might be a better solution. i.e. monorails
Monorails travel overhead thereby obviating the necessity
for checkpoints.
At the heart of the matter is an unequivocal acceptance
of Israel's right to exist, as well as Palestinian rights
to self determination. Over time, the parties simply
must learn to live together (however hard this is to do) !
True Evil June 17, 2008
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
When reading this book you will stare into the face of an evil so disturbing it is not recognizable as human. The sheer hatred and malice of official Israeli government policy toward the indigenous people of Palestine exists on a scale not even duplicated in Nazi Germany.
People in the west only think they know what racism, belief in racial superiority and ethnic cleansing/genocide is. These concepts have been taken to a level by the Israeli government that even apartheid South Africa would have envied and are made all the more insidious because they are being carried out under cover of the stalling tactic known as the "peace process".
The author does not draw conclusions for the reader, this is a book about facts and Palestinian daily life (and death) under official Israeli government policy.
If every American read this book and understood what billions of our tax dollars (annually) in the form of so-called "aid" are supporting there would be hell to pay in Washington and Tel Aviv.
This book will make you sick, it will make you cry and it will scare the be-jesus out of normal minded people to see the depths of depravity, inhumanity, and evil that can lurk in the hearts of a people consumed with their own superiority and determination to be separate and set apart from their fellow human beings.
The state of Israel is NOT a democracy. It is an apartheid terrorist state executing holocaust on an innocent people whom it does not believe has a right to exist. I repeat, Israel is not a democracy. It puts Nazi Germany to shame for it's acts of inhumanity, terrorism and war crimes against the Palestinian people for the crime of being non-jews. Even Nazi Germany was not allowed to practice it's evil for 60 years!
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