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First published in 1983, Fateful Triangle is a comprehensive indictment of what Noam Chomsky calls the "disgraceful and extremely dangerous" policy the United States has enacted towards Israel, particularly with regard to Israel's actions with regard to the Palestinians. Supporters of Israel must wilfully overlook or deny that nation's long history of human rights violations and military aggression, Chomsky writes, and they will continue to do so as long as Israel is strategically useful towards "the US aim of eliminating possible threats, largely indigenous, to American domination of the Middle East region". In the course of elaborating his argument, Chomsky cuts through the myths and distortions that appear in mainstream media accounts; the damning facts that he so systematically assembles portray a government more brutally and overtly racist, perhaps, than even apartheid-era South Africa. Three new chapters, drawing upon material from Z magazine and other publications, incorporate such developments as the Palestinian uprising, Israel's war on Lebanon, and the ongoing "peace process".
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The most ambitious book ever attempted on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians ... a great and important book. (Edward Said )
Brilliant and unscrupulous. (Observer )
A major, timely and devastating analysis of one of the great tragedies. (Fred Halliday, Tribune )
Formidable. (The Jewish Quarterly )
Brilliant and unscrupulous. (Observer )
A major, timely and devastating analysis of one of the great tragedies. (Fred Halliday, Tribune )
Formidable. (The Jewish Quarterly )
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a forensic work of scholarship.
The more the reader thinks oneself to know about the conflict, the greater the re-education that awaits. To take a single example, the Arab/PLO alliance is popularly perceived to have been the rejectionist party in its dealings with Israel. If you accord with this view, this book will force you to think again.
Chomsky approaches this subject through his favoured lenses; scepticism for Western media and criticism of US government policy. The book's basic thesis is that the US bears responsiblity for human rights abuses committed against the Palastinians by the Israeli state and its clients. The media is also complicit.
To make it through this book you must be prepared to submit to (admittedly convincing) diatribe. I think I can remember seeing a single piece of balancing comment; it appears about 400 pages in. Permit Chomsky this indulgence, and your perceptions of where blame should be attributed for problems in the Middle East will be fundamentally altered.
This reader would have liked to learn more of the pre-1948 period.
The more the reader thinks oneself to know about the conflict, the greater the re-education that awaits. To take a single example, the Arab/PLO alliance is popularly perceived to have been the rejectionist party in its dealings with Israel. If you accord with this view, this book will force you to think again.
Chomsky approaches this subject through his favoured lenses; scepticism for Western media and criticism of US government policy. The book's basic thesis is that the US bears responsiblity for human rights abuses committed against the Palastinians by the Israeli state and its clients. The media is also complicit.
To make it through this book you must be prepared to submit to (admittedly convincing) diatribe. I think I can remember seeing a single piece of balancing comment; it appears about 400 pages in. Permit Chomsky this indulgence, and your perceptions of where blame should be attributed for problems in the Middle East will be fundamentally altered.
This reader would have liked to learn more of the pre-1948 period.
79 of 91 people found the following review helpful
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You may not agree with Prof. Chomsky, but his documentation is faultless; an excellent foundation upon which to build your own, informed opinion on what is actually going on and why, in the Middle East. Refute him if you can; it's just the facts, Ma'm. It is extremely difficult to find an informant who dares criticise Isreal at all, let alone so factually correct and with such intellect. He may be the ultimate dove, but Peace needs doves. Enjoy. Shalom.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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I still remember when I bought this. A few days after 9/11 I saw this in a bookshop; for years I had noticed the blatant double standards regarding Israel in the media, and I'd taken note of some of Israel's critics but, due to mainstream media's idea of balance ( giving equal, in fact greater, space to totally false propaganda), I vacillated between anger at injustice and wondering if I was guilty of an unconscious antisemitism. This book made up my mind, and how! Like most people I think twice about laying out on an expensive book, but I'd just come into some money, 9/11 had just happened, and Israel had just blatantly taken advantage of 9/11 by declaring ' war on terrorism' and assassinating 14 Palestinian 'activists'; I'd heard of Noam Chomsky (though I knew little about him then) and the blurb on the jacket looked impressive, so I took the plunge. But it took me about 9 months to get through it, mainly because I had to find other books to fill in the gaps in my memory and knowledge - and that's the point of the qualification in my heading: this is not a narrative history of the problem; it is a discussion of the way it is propagandised in the West's media, so, while it discusses much of the history, and the core of the book (about 150 pages) includes an account of the first Israeli invasion of Lebanon and its aftermath, most newcomers will need some preparatory reading to approach it. If you've never read this, you don't know how little you know. And, to anyone under about 35, how could you know unless you're a history student? The first edition of this was written in 1984 in the wake of the first invasion of Lebanon, but it was updated with a new chapter in 1999.
Don't be put off! Let me recommend 2 short, cheap (especially on Amazon), easily digested books that will give you the necessary background: the first is ' War and Peace in the Middle East' by Oxford University's Avi Shlaim (author of 'the Iron Wall) - this book is under 100 pages and gives you the story of all the Mid E. states from the beginning of European imperialist intervention, through WWII, the creation of Israel, the 6-day war, up to the present.
The second is 'Bad News from Israel' by the Glasgow University media group (Greg Philo et al) which is another (short but very systematic) account of the media presentation, but starts with an 80 page history of the Palestine/Israel conflict, pointing out where the story is contested - this is the most easily digested (accurate too) summary of the history I know of.
Then read 'Fateful Triangle'. There are many other good books, but many of them, while well meaning, unconsciously (to be generous) make some of the assumptions and repeat the mistakes which Chomsky's laser-like mind exposes here. And that is why I say that this is THE book! This will set your mind right for further reading; bearing that in mind, David Hirst's 'the Gun and the Olive branch ' is a comprehensive narrative, and Edward Said's collected essays,' from Oslo to Iraq and the road map', is essential for a discussion of the inadequacies and corruption of Arafat and the PLO.
But be warned: ' the Fateful Triangle' is the angriest book I've ever read - parts of his description of the invasion of the war in Lebanon made me feel like banging my head off a wall, or weeping. Not for the faint-hearted!
Don't be put off! Let me recommend 2 short, cheap (especially on Amazon), easily digested books that will give you the necessary background: the first is ' War and Peace in the Middle East' by Oxford University's Avi Shlaim (author of 'the Iron Wall) - this book is under 100 pages and gives you the story of all the Mid E. states from the beginning of European imperialist intervention, through WWII, the creation of Israel, the 6-day war, up to the present.
The second is 'Bad News from Israel' by the Glasgow University media group (Greg Philo et al) which is another (short but very systematic) account of the media presentation, but starts with an 80 page history of the Palestine/Israel conflict, pointing out where the story is contested - this is the most easily digested (accurate too) summary of the history I know of.
Then read 'Fateful Triangle'. There are many other good books, but many of them, while well meaning, unconsciously (to be generous) make some of the assumptions and repeat the mistakes which Chomsky's laser-like mind exposes here. And that is why I say that this is THE book! This will set your mind right for further reading; bearing that in mind, David Hirst's 'the Gun and the Olive branch ' is a comprehensive narrative, and Edward Said's collected essays,' from Oslo to Iraq and the road map', is essential for a discussion of the inadequacies and corruption of Arafat and the PLO.
But be warned: ' the Fateful Triangle' is the angriest book I've ever read - parts of his description of the invasion of the war in Lebanon made me feel like banging my head off a wall, or weeping. Not for the faint-hearted!
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