Middle East Illusions - by Noam Chomsky (Paperback)

About the Book

Chomsky reflects on justice and nationhood just before the 2000 Intifada and up through October 2002, when 9/11 and a prospective military campaign against Iraq add new pressures to age-old conflicts.

Book Synopsis

This book offers chapters written by Chomsky just before the 2000 Intifada and up through October 2002, when 9-11 and a prospective military campaign against Iraq add new pressures to age-old conflicts.

Review Quotes

Acting as a deliberately provocative American conscience, Chomsky argues that Israel behaves like a colonial power in the Occupied Territories. His indictments of casual American hypocrisy and abuse of power are important, and his thesis that Israel's actions, far from enhancing its security, compromise it by polarizing opinion both within Israel and beyond is reasonable.

After 9/11 everything we were selling was an analysis of the Middle East. I've ordered 100 copies of Chomsky's new one, Middle East Illusions.

An intriguing, scholarly analysis of fateful errors and lasting impacts.

Answers divisive questions about the Israeli-Arab policy and U.S. involvement in the Middle East.

In Middle East Illusions, Noam Chomsky proposes an alternative resolution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine and questions the territory's strategic and economic importance to the industrial powers, most notably the United States.

It's impossible not to agree with him most of the time, and I've yet to find a book of his that doesn't sell.

This is a lucid, well-documented, first-class book that should be in every library.