From the River to Sea: Palestine After Apartheid

In June 1895, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary that the population of the land Zionism intended to settle would have to be "spirited across the border" while their property was quietly expropriated. One hundred and thirty years later, the project he founded has produced a state that the International Court of Justice has found to be plausibly committing genocide, that three of the world's leading human rights organizations have independently concluded is an apartheid regime, and that has, with the support of Western governments, killed more than fifty thousand Palestinians in Gaza in under two years.From the River to the Sea: Palestine After Apartheid is a comprehensive case for ending the Israeli state as currently constituted and replacing it with a single democratic state of all its citizens, Palestinian and Jewish, between the river and the sea.Drawing on the work of Israeli historians (Pappé, Morris, Shlaim), Palestinian scholars (Said, Khalidi, Abunimah), international jurists, the medical testimony of sixty-five doctors who served in Gaza, and the public statements of Israeli leaders themselves, the book traces the project from its 19th-century European origins through the Nakba of 1948, the architecture of the post-1967 occupation, the daily mechanics of apartheid, the genocide in Gaza, and the Western complicity that has sustained the system for decades.The book argues that the two-state solution is dead, that the apartheid regime cannot be reformed, and that the only path consistent with the values the international community claims to hold is the South African model: equal citizenship, one person one vote, the Palestinian right of return, and a single state in which Jewish and Palestinian life flourishes together rather than at each other's expense.Cool in tone, exhaustively sourced, and morally uncompromising, From the River to the Sea is a foundational text for the movement that will, eventually, end the last apartheid.

Pagina's: 144, Paperback, Independently published