Palestine in pieces
Subtitle: graphic perspectives on the Israeli occupation
By: Kathleen and Bill Christison
Contributors: Christison, William
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780745329307; 9780745329291
Subjects: Israelis; Arab-Israeli conflict; Colonization
Description: This book brings personal and pictorial perspectives to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Former CIA political analysts Kathleen and Bill Christison give a comprehensive description of the occupation and the ways in which Israel dominates the Palestinians: Israeli settlements, the Separation Wall, roads restricted to cars with Israeli license plates, home demolitions on a massive scale, imprisonment, mass assassinations and wanton sniper and artillery fire. With more than 50 photographs vividly demonstrating the impact of the occupation on the Palestinian people, the authors argue that Israel's long-term intention is to so fragment the occupied territories that any sustainable presence in the land by Palestinians as a nation will be negated.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: The occupation in microcosm : an overview : "Trapped without status in a never-never land"; title: Settlements and the separation wall : "A horrid, stifling jail"; title: Checkpoints, roadblocks, and movement impediments; title: a "critically inferior" network; title: Hose demolitions as slow ethnic cleansing : "Cruelty beyond words"; title: Towns and villages under siege : "Your shit in my salon"; title: Eyeless in Gaza : "Israel's exposed nerve"; title: "It's a pity I don't have a stepladder."