Mokey

Mokey

Mokey

1 November 2006Review

DVD, 20 mins, £6.50 inc p&p.

Written and directed by best selling War Plan Iraq author Milan Rai - and featuring interviews with Bruce Kent and Michael Foster MP, as well as a host of Vox Pops from the proverbial man/woman in the street - this DVD is an excellent, short, and thought-provoking primer, explaining why the UK Government's “war on terror” is not only wrong but is actually endangering UK citizens.

Counter terror: Build Justice demonstrates clearly how alQaeda draws upon legitimate grievances…

1 September 2006Review

Pluto 2006; ISBN 0 7453 2590 4;170pp; £11.99.

In January, Hamas - the Palestinian “Islamic Resistance Movement” that became notorious during the 1990s for its suicide attacks on Israeli civilians - won the legislative elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Since then the US and Israel - aided and abetted by the EU - have waged an unremitting campaign to punish Palestinians for their choice at the ballot box and to destroy the new government. But who are Hamas and what do they want? Is a two-state solution still possible…

1 July 2006Review

New Press 2006; ISBN 1 59558 079 4; 185pp; £14.99

1 December 2003Review

Semiotext(e) 2003; ISBN 1 58435 0 19 9; US$14.95

For all its failings, it's sometimes worth reminding oneself that some of the best journalists (as well as some of the worst!) work for the corporate media. Amira Hass is one such reporter.

The daughter of survivors of the Nazi holocaust, Hass was, until September 2002, the chief West Bank and Gaza correspondent for Ha'aretz, Israel's leading liberal daily. Between 1993 and 1997 she lived in Gaza - the only Jewish Israeli journalist to have done so - covering the Oslo “peace” process…

1 September 2003Review

Images and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, second edition, Verso 2003, ISBN 1 85984 442 1, 287pp, £15. Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians, Verso 2003, ISBN 1 85984 517 7, 234 pp, £15. Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948, Seven Stories Press 2002, ISBN 1 583 22538 2, 278pp, £7.99

As its title suggests, Norman Finkelstein's Myth and Reality explodes a series of myths about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Among the myths tackled are: that the dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948 was “born of war, not by design”; that the 1967 war was a “live or perish” battle for Israel's national existence; and that Israel's victory in the 1973 war forced Sadat to sue for peace with Israel (in fact the reverse is true). In each case Finkelstein's analysis, backed by prodigious…