The Plight of the Palestinians: A Long History of Destruction

The Plight of the Palestinians: a Long History of Destruction is a collection of voices from around the world that establishes in both theoretical and graphic terms the slow, methodical genocide taking place in Palestine beginning in the 1940s, as revealed in the Introduction. From Dr. Francis A. Boyles detailed legal case against the state of Israel, to Uri Avnerys “Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing,” to Richard Falks “Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust,” to Ilan Pappes “Genocide in Gaza,” these voices decry in startling, vivid, and forceful language the calculated atrocities taking place, the inhumane conditions inflicted on the people, and the silence that exists despite the crimes, nothing short of state-sponsored genocide against the Palestinians.

“The Plight of the Palestinians turned out to be an essential read, and a full and authoritative discourse. It offers a grim and detailed story of suffering and the “slow motion genocide”, which is important in order to appreciate the harshness of the Palestinian experience. The Plight of the Palestinians: A Long History of Destruction spreads the seeds of understanding, which is so essential to any meaningful and lasting change.”--The Jordan Times

“In his collection of thirty-two articles by almost as many authors…William Cook provides a devastating assessment of Zionist violence against Palestinians. Relentlessly told are one atrocity after another, one act of deception after another, one broken treaty after another, one surprise attack after another, one policy reversal after another--all of which are described with both effective immediacy and an adequate sense of historic context.”--Atlantic Free Press

William A. Cook is Professor of English at the University of La Verne in southern California where he served for 13 years as Vice President for Academic Affairs before assuming his faculty position in 2001. Prior to coming to California, he served as a Dean of Faculty, Chair of Department of English and faculty member at institutions large and small, public and private in four eastern states. He is an activist and a writer for numerous Internet publications including Counterpunch, Pacific Free Press in British Columbia, Dissident Voice and Information Clearing House, serving as senior editor for MWC News out of Canada, and contributing editor at the Palestine Chronicle, the Atlantic Free Press in the Netherlands, and the World Prout Assembly, his polemics against the Bush administration and the atrocities caused by Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert in Israel, now our 51st state, have been spread around the Internet world and translated into French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Italian. Cook also serves on the Board of the Peoples Media Project, interviews on radio and TV in South Africa, Canada, Iran and the United States and contributed for five years yearly predictions to the Hong Kong Economic News. This volume follows his Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy, Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied: The Rape of Palestine and continues his scourge against the hypocrisy, deceit, and destructive policies that have characterized American mid-east policy and its destructive alliance with the Zionist forces that have turned Israel into an apartheid state determined to destroy the Palestinian people. In addition to his polemics, he writes plays (The Unreasoning Mask, co-authored with his wife, DArcy, and The Agony of Colin Powell), satires (see “Advancing the Civilized State: Inch by Bloody Inch” in The Rape), and poetry (Psalms for the 21st Century). His most recent fictional work creates a morality tale based upon real life figures that haunt our lives, The Chronicles of Nefaria.  

I. The Human Tragedy * Steve Lendman, “Israels Slow Motion Genocide,” (11-26-2008) * Gideon Polya, “Ongoing Palestinian Genocide,” (3-6-2008) * Chris Hedges, “The Lessons of Violence,” (1-28-2008) * Sonja Karkar, “The Weeping Olive Trees in Palestine,” (9-4-2007) * Richard Falk, “Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust,” (6-29-2007) * Patrick Cockburn, “Gaza Is a Jail; Gaza Is Dying,” (9-7-2006) * Paul Craig Roberts, “The Shame of Being an American,” (7-22-2006) * Andrea Howard, “Israeli Tank Heads Toward Northern Gaza,” (7-3-2006) * Paul de Rooij, “Palestinian Misery in Perspective,” (6-3-2004) * Tanya Reinhart and Jon Elmer, “A Slow, Steady Genocide,” (9-11-2003) * II. Propaganda, Perception and Reality * Dr. Elias Akleh, “Gazas Holocaust,” (3-20-2008) * Ramzy Baroud, “Big Bang or Chaos: Whats Israel Up To?” (3-20-2008) * Jonathan Cook, “Israel Plots Another Palestinian Exodus,” (3-8-2008) * Jon Basil Utley, “Americas Armageddonites,” (10-11-2007) * Kathleen and Bill Christison, “Genocide or Erasure,” (11-28-2006) * Jeff Halper, “The Problem with Israel,” (11-23-2006) * Adi Ophir, “A Response to Benny Morris: Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion,” (1-16-2004) * James Petras, “The Final Solution and Jose Saramago,” (4-2-2002) * Robert Fisk, “The British in Palestine, 1945-48: a Foreign Holocaust,” (9-3-2002) * III. Rule by Law or Defiance * Steve Lendman, “The  Russell Tribunal in Palestine,” (5-16-2009) * Ilan Pappe, “The Necessity of Cultural Boycott,” (6-24-2009) * Karen Koning Abu Zayd, “Brutal Siege of Gaza,” (1-28-2008) * Omar Barghouti, “European Collusion in Israels Slow Genocide,” (1-21-2008) * James Petras, “War without End,” (1-6-2008) * Ilan Pappe, “Genocide in Gaza,” (2-20-2007) * Curtis F. J. Doebbler, “Genocide Among Us,” (1-28-2007) * John Pilger, “Looking from the Side, from Belsen to Gaza,” (1-18-2007) * William A. Cook, “Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied: The Rape of Palestine,” (1-7/8-2006) * Omar Barghouti, “Relative Humanity: the Essential Obstacle,” (12-13/14-2003) * Uri Avnery, “Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing,” (10-9-2003) * Francis A. Boyle, “Palestine Should Sue Israel for Genocide,” (12-13-1997)