The Case for Palestine
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The Case for Palestine

Why It Matters and Why You Should Care

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Case for Palestine

Why It Matters and Why You Should Care

About this book

In 1948, the State of Israel was founded. While the philosophy of Zionism that advocated for a Jewish homeland in what was then known as Palestine dates back to 1897, the creation of Israel in 1948 was justified by the terrible crime of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany during WWII.Many defenders of Israel would like us to believe that the creation of Israel was a peaceful process on a barely populated land, however, this is far from true. Rather, the creation of Israel was accompanied by what is known by the Palestinians as the Nakba (catastrophe)—an operation in which 700, 000 Palestinians were violently expelled from their land and their homes. Since that time, Israel has continued to usurp more and more landfrom the Palestinians who they falsely portray as a people without a history and without a culture. Israel has been particularly cruel to the people of Gaza—70 percent of whom are refugees from the 1948 Nakba. Gaza has been converted by Israel into what some call a giant open-air prison surrounded by barbed wire. It is in this context that we are currently witnessingthe tragic violence between Israel and the people of Gaza—violence on a scale not seen in this land since the Nakbaof 1948. Indeed, many Palestinians are calling this a second Nakba, with around 1.5 million Palestinians already displaced and thousands killed. All of this is being accomplished by Israel with critical military and diplomatic support from the United States. This second Nakba is also being facilitated by the mainstream press that both downplays and justifies what many believe to be genocidal violence against the Palestinian people. The Case for Palestine is written as a counternarrative, with the hope that, if the truth is told, this violence and displacement can be stopped before it is too late; before Gaza is no more.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword by George Galloway MP
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1: A Short History of Zionism and the Founding of Israel in Historic Palestine
  11. Chapter 2: The United States Assumes the Sponsorship of Israel
  12. Chapter 3: The Reality of the October 7 Attacks
  13. Chapter 4: Israel Carries Out Genocide, Not Self-Defense, in Gaza
  14. Chapter 5: Genocide in the West Bank
  15. Chapter 6: The United States, Israel, and the Modern-Day Persecution of the Christian Church
  16. Conclusion: The Case for Palestine
  17. Appendix A: Homily of Lutheran Minister
  18. Appendix B: Statement of Armenian Patriarchate
  19. Appendix C: Resignation Letter of Craig Mokhiber
  20. Notes
  21. Index