Editorial Picador USA
Fecha de edición septiembre 2013 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781250037732
400 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISRAELI SOLDIERS SPEAK OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT THE TRUTH OF THE PALESTINIAN OCCUPATION, IN ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS ON ISRAEL/PALESTINE IN THIS GENERATION (NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS)
The very name of the Israel Defense Forces suggests that its primary mission is the defense of the country's territory. Indeed, both internationally and within Israel, support for the occupation of Palestinian territory rests on the belief that the army's actions and presence in the West Bank and Gaza are essentially defensive and responsive, aimed at protecting the country from terror.
But Israeli soldiers themselves tell a profoundly different story. In this landmark work, which includes more than a hundred soldiers' testimonies collected over a decade, what emerges is a broad policy that is as much offensive as defensive. In their own words, the soldiers reveal in human and vivid detail how the key planks of the army's ostensibly protective program have in fact served to accelerate acquisition of Palestinian land, cripple all normal political and social life, and ultimately thwart the possibility of independence.
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