Blowing Up Everything Is Beautiful - by James Robins (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

THEY TOLD YOU WHAT THEY WERE DOING WHILE THEY DID IT

"Blow up and flatten everything . . ." These chilling words, said by Amichai Eliyahu, a minister in the Israeli government, have been a message to the world and the people of Gaza: destroying everything--homes, businesses, lives--is justified. Even beautiful.

For fifteen months and in full view of the world, the state of Israel trapped more than two million people in a tiny strip of land and unleashed vengeance on them. The Palestinians endured a nightmare--bombed from the air, targeted by soldiers, their hospitals destroyed--and, as they are cut off from the rest of the world, the nightmare continues.

Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful is a searing indictment of the brutality and atrocities inflicted on the Palestinians of Gaza and the collaboration of powerful nations in their murder. With forensic detail and the forceful arguments of a prosecutor, James Robins details how the ongoing attempt to annihilate Gaza became the major crime of our age--and a turning point.

What happens when the moral regime of international law and human rights that protect the oppressed fails? Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful reveals a bold, radical, and independent new voice that offers a powerful reminder: all crimes cry out for justice, and if that justice fails, the crimes will no doubt happen again.

Review Quotes

"This book is a must-read for every American. As Robins demonstrates with heart-breaking detail, the US has been supporting the worst crimes imaginable against the Palestinian people in Gaza, leaving them with nothing but scorched earth. This book demands serious reflection and soul-searching, but above all, action to stop the continued ethnic cleansing and slaughter of the Palestinian people with our tax dollars. This book could not be more timely and urgent. It is a plea for decency and humanity."--Dan Kovalik is the author of The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care

"The quest to annihilate the people of Palestine began long before October 7, 2023 and has continued even after the announcement of a preliminary ceasefire in Gaza. But someday it will meet its final end, and people the world over will get to work distorting and obfuscating the past to excuse their cooperation with the defining crime of our times. The publication of James Robins's unsparing and exhaustively documented reporting on the first fifteen months of mass murder in Gaza will make their task more difficult. It has rarely been more important to get the first draft of history right, and to this project Robins has made a valuable contribution."--Erik Baker, author of Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

About the Author

James Robins is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The Guardian, The Spectator, and the TLS among other news outlets. He writes the newsletter The Dreadnought and lives in London.