On Palestine

Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, Frank Barat(Editor)

…the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story hard to understand and even harder to solve. Indeed, the story of Palestine has been told before: European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. the Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect, but Israel succeeded nonetheless with the help of its allies everywhere in building a multilayered explanation that is so complex that only Israel can understand it.

 

The only chance for successful struggle against Zionism in Palestine is the one based on a human and civil rights agenda that does not differentiate between one violation and the other and yet identifies clearly the victim and the victimizers.