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NEW TITLE: THE PUNISHMENT OF GAZA By: GIDEON LEVY Published 5th July 2010 "There are more terrible atrocities in the world than what is being done to the caged prisoners of Gaza, but it is not easy to think of a more cruel and cowardly exhibition of human savagery, fully supported by the US, with Europe trailing politely behind. Gideon Levy's passionate and revealing account is an eloquent, even desperate, call to bring this shocking tragedy to an end, as can easily be done " NOAM CHOMSKY "My modest mission is to prevent a situation in which many Israelis will be able to say, 'We didn't know'" - GIDEON LEVY GIDEON LEVY will be speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 18th August 2010, and speaking in various locations around the UK in the following week. The Israeli assault on Gaza in early 2009 and the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla in May 2010 have provoked a deluge of coverage and discussion on the war, with news channels charting every missile, every rocket and every death. Tens of thousands have marched in London to protest the war and the attack on the aid convoy, and during both events the airwaves have been full of debate on the legality, morality and strategic sense of Israeli actions. Journalists have been duly despatched to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Sderot, and the Gaza border to report on the conflict. Yet one voice that is often strikingly absent from the coverage is that of the Palestinians living in Gaza themselves. GIDEON LEVY is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed Israeli journalist. He has been reporting from the occupied territories for the Israeli newspaper, HA'ARETZ, for over 20 years. THE PUNISHMENT OF GAZA takes us back to Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza to chart the events leading up to the bloody assault of 2009. Levy's powerful journalism shows how the brutality at the heart of Israel's occupation of Palestine found its most complete expression to date in the collective punishment of Gaza's residents. The result is both a set of heartbreaking human stories, an incisive analysis of Israeli policy, and an impassioned plea for Israel to end the occupation. LEVY'S work combines piercing political analysis with a journalist's drive to tell the stories of those suffering under the Israeli occupation. LEVY humanises the victims of war, to tell us their names, their birthdays and what they ate for breakfast. Yet LEVY does not speak primarily to, or for Palestinians. His aim is to hold a mirror up to Israeli society, asking Israelis to face up to the everyday brutality of the occupation and to ensure that neither Israelis nor their international supporters can ever say "we didn't know". As Gaza continues to make headlines, with the brutal and ongoing Israeli siege scuppering any attempts at rebuilding, the Goldstone report controversy and attempts by activists to break the siege by land and sea meeting with deadly hostility from Israel, THE PUNISHMENT OF GAZA gives the casual observer a timely overview of the shocking recent history of Gaza. GIDEON LEVY is a prominent Israeli journalist. For over twenty years he has covered the Israel-Palestine conflict, in particular the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, for the Israeli newspaper HA'ARETZ in his column "Twilight Zone." ISBN: 978 1 84467 601 9 / US$15.95 / £8.99 / CAN$20 / Paperback / 160 pages For more information visit: http://www.versobooks.com/books/klm/l-titles/levy_g_the_punishment_of_gaza.shtml To buy the book in UK: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844676019/The-Punishment-of-Gaza or http://www.amazon.co.uk/Punishment-Gaza-Gideon-Levy/dp/1844676013/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276513846&sr=8-1 To buy the book in US: http://www.amazon.com/Punishment-Gaza-Gideon-Levy/dp/1844676013/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276513890&sr=8-1 ACADEMICS BASED OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA MAY REQUEST AN INSPECTION COPY - PLEASE CONTACT ta...@verso.co.uk<mailto:ta...@verso.co.uk> ACADEMICS BASED WITHIN NORTH AMERICA MAY REQUEST AN EXAMINATION COPY - PLEASE CONTACT cla...@verso.co.uk<mailto:cla...@verso.co.uk> Visit Verso's new blog for information on our upcoming events, new reviews and publications and special offers. http://versouk.wordpress.com/ Become a fan of Verso on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Verso-Books-UK/122064538789 And get updates on Twitter too! http://twitter.com/VersoBooksUK ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
