Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair

Jonathan Cook
Paperback, 304 pages
9781848130319

Palestine is fast disappearing. Over many decades Israel has developed and refined policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the Palestinian people in a relentless effort to destroy them as a nation. It has industrialised Palestinian despair through ever more sophisticated systems of curfews, checkpoints, walls, permits and land grabs. It has transformed the West Bank and Gaza into laboratories for testing the infrastructure of confinement, creating a lucrative 'defence' industry by pioneering the technologies needed for crowd control, surveillance, collective punishment and urban warfare.

In this insightful and authoritative new book, leading journalist Jonathan Cook examines the many different guises in which these experiments on the Palestinians are being carried out. Accessible and comprehensive, this is a powerful analysis of one of the most enduring and entrenched conflicts in contemporary world politics.

Contents
Part 1
1. The Road to Dispossession
2. Greater Israel's Lure
3. Dunam after Dunam
4. Disappearing Palestine
Part 2
5. Zionism and its Meanings
6. Life under Occupation
7. Compromised Critics
8. Our Embedded Media
9. Anti-Semitism and its Abuses
Afterword: Two-State Dreamers