Mis libros y citas

  Palestina en pedazos Lina Meruane Es asombroso que sean los propios herederos del holocausto quienes hayan elegido olvidar lo que fue vivir y morir en el lugar del oprimido, lo que significó: el desprecio y la constante humillación, la consiguiente suspención de sus derechos ciudadanos y humanos, su conversión en enemigos, en seres indeseables, menos que animales, escoria. Esas palabras inhumanas hicieron posible lo impensable: el genocidio. No es entonces una simple ironía. Es una irresponsabilidad histórica inaceptable y estremecedora que ellos elijan no ver, o peor, elijan repetir esa fórmula discriminatoria sobre los palestinos.  

  ¡Palestina Existe! Varios Autores ..me pregunto, y es una pregunta retórica, porque tengo algunas respuestas concretas, qué pensarían quienes murieron en Auschwitz y en otros campos de concentración nazi, y las víctimas de los pogromos y de otras persecusiones históricas sufridas por el pueblo judío, si levantaran la cabeza y vieran lo que Israel está haciendo en su nombre. Estoy seguro de que muchos se cubrirían el rostro, avergonzados.            José Saramago 

Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine Noura Erakat Israel's aims then and now, are the same - to achieve and maintain a Jewish demographic majority and also to acquire the greatest amount of land with the fewest possible number of Palestinians on it. It achieves this through civil law in Israel, a mix of administrative and martial law in East Jerusalem, martial law in the West Bank and all out warfare in Gaza.      

  Método y locura: La historia oculta de los ataques de Israel en Gaza Norman G. Finkelstein El uso desproporcionado de la fuerza y la conversión de infraestructuras civiles en objetivos constituyen crímenes de guerra en el derecho internacional. Israel ha elegido a Gaza a menudo para convertirla en objetivo prioritario de su estrategia criminal.  

  Gaza, cuna de mártires Mikel Ayestarán Los efectos de la guerra son incomparables a los dos lados de la verja; cualquier intento de igualar a los dos bandos supone una manipulación de un conflicto totalmente desproporcionado.  

  Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire Richard Becker The reactionary triple alliance of imperialism, Zionism and Arab reaction first clearly appeared in opposition to the revolutionary movement in Palestine in this period (1936-1939). That counterrevolutionary alliance, with the United States taking Britain’s place as the lead imperialist power in the 1950's, has confronted all revolutionary movements in the region ever since.  

  The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Ilan Pappé For contemporary as well as for later historians, between the 30th of March and the 15th of May, 200 villages were occupied and their inhabitants expelled. This is a fact that must be repeated.  I have no illusion that it will take more than this book to reverse a reality that demonizes the people who have been colonized, expelled, and occupied, and glorifies the very people who colonized, expelled, and occupied.

  They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom Ahed Tamimi ,   Dena Takruri ...as Palestinians, simply by residing in our homes, we practice a form of resistance.  I'm often asked what I think it will take for Palestine to be free. I'm a firm believer that the international community must boycott Israel and pursue it for war crimes in the international courts. I also believe that the only possible and acceptable resolution at this point is a one state solution. My vision is for us to live in a single democratic state where everyone is equal Muslim, Christian and Jew.  

  Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics Marc Lamont Hill ,   Mitchell Plitnick For those who have never lived in a system of violence like the Israeli occupation, it is hard to understand how simply not going anywhere constitutes resistance. But when the objective of your oppressor is to get you to leave your land, staying put is part of the daily struggle. In this sense, every Palestinian living under the Israeli occupation is a nonviolent resistor.  

  The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories Ilan Pappé The conventional Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing, employed successfully in 1948 against half of Palestine's population and against hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank in 1967, was of no use here. You could slowly transfer Palestinians out of the West Bank, and in particular, out of the Greater Jerusalem area, but you could not do it in the Gaza Strip once you had sealed it as a maximum-security prison camp. The result, as I have argued elsewhere, was the onset of a policy of incremental genocide by Israel against the Gaza Strip.

  Palestina. Cien Años de Colonialismo y Resistencia Rashid Khalidi Cuando se cumplía el centenario de la guerra contra Palestina, la metrópoli estadounidense, el irremplazable fundamento de la libertad de acción de Israel, estaba tan comprometida con el proyecto sionista como la había estado lord Balfour cien años antes. El segundo siglo de guerra se caracterizaría por un nuevo enfoque, aún más destructivo, de la cuestión palestina, en el que Estados Unidos se coordinaría estrechamente con Israel y sus nuevos amigos en las monarquías absolutas del Golfo.

  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.