Presents an account of the motivations and implications behind the Gaza
withdrawal and the building of Israel's 700km fence-cum-wall around the West
Bank. This book charts Israel's desperate responses to its demographic
predicament over the course of the Intifada: its lethal military repression of
Palestinian dissent on both sides; and more.What is Israel hoping to achieve with its recent pull-out from Gaza?
Journalist Jonathan Cook, who spent five years reporting on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, presents a lucid account of the motivations and
implications behind the Gaza withdrawal and the building of Israel's 700km
fence-cum-wall around the West Bank. At the heart of the issue, he argues, is
demography. The wars of 1948 and 1967 brought hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians under Israeli rule. The biggest obstacle to a two-state solution
comes not from Palestinians living under occupation, but from Israel's own
Palestinian citizens - one in five of the population. Since the outbreak of the
Second Intifada, they have been campaigning for democratic reforms to transform
Israel from a Jewish state into "a state of all its citizens".; This book charts Israel's increasingly desperate responses to its
demographic predicament over the course of the Intifada: its lethal military
repression of Palestinian dissent on both sides; its claims that Palestinian
citizens and the Palestinian Authority have been secretly conspiring to subvert
the Jewish state from within; its banning of marriages between Palestinian
citizens and Palestinians living under occupation to prevent a right of return
"through the back door"; its plans to redraw the Green Line to exclude the
heartlands of its Palestinian citizens from Israel; and the nascent alliance
between Israel's secular leadership and its zealous settlers against the
country's Palestinian minority. The path of unilateral separation will lead to
more and greater abuses of the rights of Israel's Palestinian c
