[bksvol-discuss] Submitted/nonfiction

  • From: "Deborah Murray" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 14:37:00 -0400

Hi all,

 

I've just submitted for proofing "On The Brink: Israel And Palestine on the
Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion" by Alice Rothchild

 

It's been read and spell-checkked (most unrecognized words are non-English
names and words).

All headers stripped, page numbers/section titles present/protected, fonts
adjusted.

167 pages.

 

Description:

On the Brink is a compelling collection of blog posts made during a
fact-finding and solidarity visit to the West Bank and Israel encompassing
the last three weeks of June 2014.  Physician, author, filmmaker, and
longtime activist Alice Rothchild turns her powers of careful observation
and her deep understanding of the consequences of racism and occupation into
a lively, honest, heart breaking, collection of reports from the field.  She
documents the stories and lives that do not make the evening news, but are
essential to understanding the context in which that news occurs.  While
Rothchild expected the delegation to focus on the longest Palestinian
prisoner hunger strike in history and the debate over forced feeding, the
kidnap of three settler teenagers from Hebron soon dominated the news.
Rather than investigating this crime, the Israel government used this as an
excuse to launch a full scale incursion into the West Bank, moving into
villages and refugee camps at night, invading people's homes, arresting
hundreds, killing ten, trashing and destroying buildings, and launching a
campaign of demonization towards Hamas in Gaza.  As this unfolded, it became
clear to Rothchild that Netanyahu was determined to crush the Fatah/Hamas
unity government and he had found his excuse.   Israel launched air raids
against Hamas before a single rocket was fired by insurgents.  This
experience unfolds as Rothchild relentlessly documents the injustices, the
inspiring resilience, and the intense yearning for the end to occupation and
for a more just society both in Israel and the Occupied Territories.

 

Deborah

 

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