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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
Michigan University Press,
click here or Amazon US
click here
Advance praise:
“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:
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
Extracts from the book:
To look at the contents page
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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