Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is there a way forward? The books expert contributors address these and other questions, which have never been more urgent.
In September 2023, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan boasted that the Middle East is quieter today than it has been in two decades. One week later, unprecedented violence in Gaza and Israel shattered the status quo and shocked the world.
Hamass Operation Al-Aqsa Deluge punctured delusions of stability as hundreds of militants burst forth from the Gaza prison camp. In the ensuing carnage and firefights, 1,200 Israelis were killed and hundreds more taken hostage.
Israels retaliation turned the besieged enclave into a howling wasteland. Nearly 20,000 people were killed in two months, including more than 7,000 children, and over 60 percent of homes were damaged or destroyed. Israel targeted the wounded and infirm, newborns and near-dead, as Gazas healthcare systemhospitals, clinics, ambulances, medical personnelcame under a systematic attack unprecedented in the annals of modern warfare.
The Hamas massacre and the Israeli extermination campaign which followed together mark a historic turning point in the Israel-Palestine conflict. The reverberations have also shaken politics far beyond, not least in Europe and the United States, where gigantic, round-the-clock protests for Palestinian rights pitted politicians against the public and exposed a growing statist authoritarianism.
In this groundbreaking bookthe first published about the 2023 Gaza warleading Palestinian, Israeli, and international authorities put these momentous developments in context and provide an initial taking-stock.
Contributors: Musa Abuhashhash, Ahmed Alnaouq, Nathan J. Brown, Yaniv Cogan, Clare Daly MEP, Talal Hangari, Khaled Hroub, R. J., Colter Louwerse, Mitchell Plitnick, Mouin Rabbani, Sara Roy, and Avi Shlaim
Recenzijos
Indispensable . . . a tour de force Norman G. Finkelstein
"Eye-opening, compelling, required reading" Katie Halper
First-rate analysis . . . a truly important antidote John J. Mearsheimer
Comprehensive and compassionate Cornel West
"From the outset, in the introduction to this valuable collection of essays, editor Jamie Stern-Weiner declares its aim: to place this war in its proper historical context and to provide a preliminary assessment of the many different aspects of the war. Jewish Voice for Labor
"Deluge is a sharp and informative analysis of the Palestine issue, helpful to those new to the movement and energizing also for the more experienced." Counter Fire
"[ A]n invaluable book, for experts and novices alike." The Middle East Eye
"The books contributors are brave to highlight what is known but less often said and to open the door to discussions and debates that need to take place for there to be any hope of understanding and stopping the violence in Gaza, Israel and the Occupied Territories." The Morning Star
"Considering that a books publication typically has at least a one-year journey, this books release in April 2024 is a testimony to the authors and editors recognizing the importance of the moment, especially as the Israeli response to the 7 October operation constitutes a genocide." The Electronic Intifada
Daugiau informacijos
Social media promotions with contributors and endorsers: Some of the contributors and endorsers have already posted about the book, allowing for a combined exposure of 1 million people: Clare Daly (@ClareDalyMEP, 377.8k Twitter followers, 539k Instagram followers, 116k Facebook followers), Norman Finkelstein (428.1k Twitter followers), Mouin Rabbani, and Ahmed Alnaouq. There will be continued promotion through the network of contributor and endorsers, including Cornel West (1 million followers on Twitter). Pitch television, radio, and podcast interviews to Democracy Now!, Al Jazeeras UpFront, The Dig, Intercepted, Citations Needed, On the Media, Rumble with Michael Moore, The Young Turks Show, NPR Politics podcast, Stuff You Should Know, Radiolab, The Ezra Klein Show, Useful Idiots, Bad Faith, Breaking Points, Empire Files, American Prestige, and more. Pitch op-eds, excerpts, and reviews to a wide array of publications including Against the Current, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, Common Dreams, Current Affairs, Guernica Magazine, Intercept, Los Angeles Review of Books, Mondoweiss, N+1, New York Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Slate, The Atlantic, The Baffler, The Drift, The Grayzone, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Vox, and more. Excerpts already published: Avi Shlaims chapter in the Middle East Eye and Jamie Stern-Weiner's introduction in Jacobin and in Danish translation in Eftertryk.
PART I. CONTEXTS
1/ Israels War on Gaza Avi Shlaim
2/ Econocide in Gaza Sara Roy
3/ Is Hamas to Blame for the Failure to Resolve the Israel-Palestine
Conflict? Colter Louwerse
4/ Rule Number One of Nonviolent Resistance: It Cant Work If Its
Misrepresented as Violent R. J.
PART II. CATACLYSM
5/ Targeting Civilians: Its Logic in Gaza and Israel Yaniv Cogan
6/ Just Like That: Life and Death in Gaza Ahmed Alnaouq
7/ Nothing Fails Like Success: Hamas and the Gaza Explosion Khaled Hroub
8/ The Quiet Front: Reflections from the West Bank Musa Abuhashhash
9/ All Shook Up: Regional Dynamics of the Gaza War Mouin Rabbani
10/ Into the Abyss Nathan J. Brown
PART III. SOLIDARITIES
11/ Breakthroughs and Backlash in the Belly of the Beast Mitchell Plitnick
12/ Palestine Solidarity in Britain Talal Hangari
13/ Sins of Commission: How Europe Was Bounced into Supporting Israels War
Crimes in Gaza Clare Daly MEP
Jamie Stern-Weiner is an Associate Editor at OR Books and a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford. Israeli-born and London-raised, he has written extensively about the history and politics of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as the contemporary politics of antisemitism. His publications include Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestines Toughest Questions (OR Books, 2018), Antisemitism and the Labour Party (Verso, 2019), and How the EHRC Got It So Wrong (Verso, 2021). His articles have been published in The Nation, Jacobin, Jadaliyya, Middle East Eye, and elsewhere. He co-founded the New Left Project.
Clare Daly MEP is an Irish politician, currently serving as a member of the European Parliament, representing the constituency of Dublin. Elected as an independent socialist, she is affiliated to the Left in the European Parliament, and works across a range of policy areas, including migration and human rights, data protection, home affairs, transport, and defense. She is a vocal advocate for peace and a critic of EU foreign policy.
Khaled Hroub is professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Northwestern University/Qatar and the author of two books on Hamas.
Mouin Rabbani is co-editor of Jadaliyya and host of its Connections podcast.
Sara Roy is an associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Her most recent book is Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance (Pluto Press, 2021).
Avi Shlaim is an emeritus professor of International Relations at Oxford University, a fellow of the British Academy, and the author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2014) and Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (2009).
