War against the People

Resumen del libro

War Against The People is the long-awaited book by renowned anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper. Using firsthand research, he investigates the rise of the Israeli state's 'securocratic war' in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. A subliminal form of warfare which creates fear amongst the populous, it functions by suggesting the 'other' is inside the city limits by weaving ideological fabrications which form an excuse to intensify military apparatus in everyday civilian life.

This apparatus includes sophisticated sensors, information databases on civilian activity, automated targeting systems and unmanned drones which affect civilian lives both physically and virtually. Eventually, the integration of militarised systems becomes seamless, and in the Occupied Territories the region has become a veritable laboratory. Halper moves on to explain how this method of war is in fact global - the major capitalist powers and corporations world wide combine militaries, security agencies and police forces into an effective instrument of what he calls 'global pacification'.

War Against The People is a bold attempt to shine a light on these horrific, hidden practices.