Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 336
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-2977-9 • Paperback • April 2004 • $32.95 • (£25.00)
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Part I: Peace in the Middle East? The 1967 War and the 1970s
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 1. Nationalism and Conflict in Palestine
Chapter 5 2. A Radical Perspective
Chapter 6 3. Reflections on a National Conflict
Chapter 7 4. The Fourth Round
Chapter 8 5.The Peace Movement and the Middle East
Chapter 9 Part II: Intifada, Israel and the United States at the turn of the Millenium
Chapter 10 6. The "Peace Process" in U.S. Global Strategy
Chapter 11 7. Prospects for Peace in the Middle East
Chapter 12 8. Al-Aqsa Intifada
Chapter 13 9. United States-Israel-Palestine
Chapter 14 Part III: A Changed World?
Chapter 15 10. After 9/11: The "War on Terror" Redeclared
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.
— Edward Nawotka; Publishers Weekly
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.
— The Bookseller
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.
— Sunday Times
This is a lucid, well-documented, first-class book that should be in every library.
— Day By Day
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.
— Z Magazine
An intriguing, scholarly analysis of fateful errors and lasting impacts.
— The Bookwatch
Answers divisive questions about the Israeli-Arab policy and U.S. involvement in the Middle East.
— Foreword Reviews