Flowers of Galilee: The Collected Essays of Israel Shamir
by Israel Shamir
Category: History

Palestine is not a dead object. It is a living country. Palestinians are her soul ... To love a country and wish away her inhabitants is a kind of necrophiliac's romance. --Israel Shamir collected in Flowers of Galilee are perceived as a model of the world ... The war in the Holy Land is presented as the centre-stage of the world-wide struggle of ideas, against a backdrop of such momentous modern developments as the growing influence of American Jewry, the decline of the Left, the ascent of Globalisation, the first steps of the anti-Globalisation movement, and the outbreak of World War Three with America against the Third World. goal as well: the Liberation of Public Discourse.This outrageous Book will shock you ... or will change your vision of the world...A Jewish genius, Israel Shamir kicks holes through doors. He is the true refusenik. My favourite anti-Semite, Shamir is a must-read for every Jew. --Paul Eisen, London resolve. --Daniel McGowan, Deir Yassin Remembered. Israel Shamir writes with the heart of a poet, and the uncorrupted perception of the child who is able to cry out, 'The Emperor has no clothes ' Many writers on current events are worth reading, but I know of none who can be re-read as often as can Israel Shamir, with reawakened admiration each time for his skill, and renewed gratitude for his service to truth. --Lubomyr Prytulak Ukrainian Archive Mendacity. His essays wound the beast, and rectify the vision of those swimming away from perfidious power and towards the shores of peace, from Haifa to Havana. --Prof. Julio Pino. Israel Shamir is the most incredible man I ever met. Next to Israel Shamir, Norman Finkelstein and his Holocaust Industry is a tale for children. Reading him, one believes for a moment that St. Paul was right when he said there is no defence against the truth. The history of David and Goliath would not suffice to illustrate the combat of Israel Shamir ... It makes one think of an ant tackling the largest monsters having ever traversed the surface of the Earth. --Manfred-Christian Stricker Strasbourg