Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East

Published by Pluto Press in Britain in January

and in the United States in February 2008

For details about how to buy the book

in the UK:  from Pluto Press, click here
or from Amazon UK click here

in the US:  from Palgrave Macmillan,  click here
 or Amazon US  click here

Praise for Clash of Civilisations: 

“One of the most cogent understandings of the modern Middle East I have read. It is superb, because the author himself is a unique witness who blows away the media debris and presents both a j’accuse of those who would destroy the lives of whole societies in their pursuit of power and myth, and a warning to the rest of us to speak up and act.”
John Pilger, author of Freedom Next Time (2006) and The New Rulers of the World (2003)

“A compelling account of the recent wars for Middle East oil, untangling a complex web of interests shared by the neocons, Israel and the Bush White House. Cook’s timely book raises disturbing questions about where Israel and the US hope to push the region next.”
David Hirst, author of The Gun and the Olive Branch (2003)

“Undeniably enriches and elevates the debate.”
Afif Safieh, Palestinian Ambassador in Washington

Reviews:

Epilogue with Ken Livingstone, Press TV

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

By Raymond Deane on Electronic Intifada

By Stephen Lendman on Znet

By Neil Berry in Arab News
 

By Sally Bland in the Jordan Times

By Antony Loewenstein in Sydney's Sun-Herald

By Neil Berry in the New Statesman

By Jonathan O'Brien in The Sunday Business Post (Ireland)

By Allen Ruff in Against the Current, No 138, Jan-Feb 2009

By Gavin O'Toole in London Progressive Journal, Issue 55 (Jan 30)

By Dr Ludwig Watzal (in German)
 

Extracts from the book:
 

To look at the contents page and index click here

From the preface (in PDF) click here
 

On Israel's 2006 assault on Lebanon (in PDF) click here
 

From the back cover:
In his thought-provoking new book, journalist Jonathan Cook argues that Israel’s desire to be the sole regional power in the Middle East has shaped the Bush Administration’s objectives in the “war on terror”.

Examining a host of inter-related issues, from the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to the role of Big Oil and the demonisation of the Arab world, Cook shows that the current chaos in the Middle East, far from being a disastrous mistake, is the true goal of the Bush Administration. It is a policy that has been greatly to the benefit of Israel.

About the author:

Jonathan Cook, a former staff journalist of the Guardian and Observer newspapers, has also written for The Times, Le Monde diplomatique, international Herald Tribune, Al-Ahram Weekly and Aljazeera.net

He is based in Nazareth, Israel.

Translations
An Arabic edition is forthcoming from: Dar Al-Hadi Publishing in Beirut, Lebanon.

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