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The fall of Israel did not begin on October 7th, 2023. The path to the obliteration of Gaza was paved by the confluence of a set of longstanding forces. This great conjuncture has transformed Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Dr Dan Steinbock connects the dots among these lethal headwinds. What makes The Fall of Israel unique is its comprehensive scope. It covers Israel's political, economic, social and military changes, the shifts in the Palestinian struggle for sovereignty, Israel's degradation into apartheid rule, the attendant atrocities, the regional and global reverberations and the human and economic costs, both prior and subsequent to Israel's fatal war on Gaza. There, its nightmarish actions have led to the engagement of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, renewed international boycotts, and massive domestic and international protests. The Fall of Israel outlines the central drivers of this simmering tinderbox: the serial expulsions of Palestinians, the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, a half century of failed U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East and Israel's militarization, enabled by the symbiotic bilateral ties with the U.S. and massive U.S. military aid. In the Gaza War, these ties fostered paradigms of devastation, such as the Dahiya doctrine and mass assassination factories, backed by pioneering artificial intelligence. The settlements have contributed to the destabilization of the broader region since the early 1970s, and are now compounding its politico-economic and geopolitical crisis. This book addresses the efforts to institute a Jewish rather than a secular state. It shows how the postwar labor alignments were replaced by the hard-right coalitions, thanks to U.S. neoliberal economic policies, assertive neoconservatism and Jewish-American donors. It also explains the causes behind the rise of the Messianic far-right, centrist parties, and the failure of the Left. The corrosion of Israeli society and politics was already reflected in and driven by an economy constrained by adverse erosion, as reflected by the liabilities of its high-tech cluster, the talent ""brain drain,"" the threatened welfare state and subsidized religious sector. But now, the already evident politico-economic costs to Israel of the Gaza war have set the stage for extraordinary uncertainty in the foreseeable future.

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""Ths mpressve ook provdes a comprehensve and ncsve answer to the queston how we got to where we are n Israel and Palestne today. In a very accessle manner, Stenock narrates the makng of a messanc and theocratc Israel whch s a menace for the Palestnans, the regon and no less mportant to tself. Its downfall as the ook predcts n negh, ut on the way, t wreaks havoc and destructon. Ths s the pcture world leaders must e aware of and challenge efore t s too late."" --ILAN PAPPE, Professor of Hstory, Drector of the European Centre for Palestne Studes, Author of The Ethnc Cleansng of Palestne ""The title of Steinbock's book best sums up the current precarious state of affairs in Israel, and his thorough, fact-based indictment of Israeli policy should be examined by American policymakers of both parties to assess whether continued U.S. complicity in financing Israel's costly and militaristic oppression of Palestinians, in a continuing slow-motion land grab, is moral or even in the U.S. national interest."" IVAN ELAND, The Independent Review ""Steinbock has given us an important book with the whole story written in 394 pages, 52 pages of endnotes, and a thorough index."" PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS ""Dr Steinbock's new book The Fall of Israel is a stunning look at the longstanding forces undermining the state of Israel and the lives of Palestinians, while fostering genocidal atrocities and regional escalation. His interview offers revealing insights about the ongoing catastrophe."" Pearls & Irritations: John Menadue's Public Policy Journal ""If anyone still believed that political Zionism's objective was anything less than ethnic cleansing The Fall of Israel would surely disabuse them of that delusion....The Fall of Israel is a widely-resourced book, arguably a defining one on the Zionist state's audacious appearance after the second world war and its powerfully detrimental impact on the geopolitical scene."" -Sara Dowse, Pearls & Irritations ""The Fall of Israel explains excellently how 76 years of repression and suffering for the Palestinians has been facilitated by the unconditional American support for Israelf.""MOGENS LYKKETOFT, Former Danish Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations General Assembly 2015-2016 ""The Fall of Israel is one of the most comprehensive academic books on the Palestinian crisis. . .This book thoroughly and accurately explains significant facts about the objectives and crimes of Zionism, the likes of which are rarely found in previous academic works.""SEYED HOSSEIN MOUSAVIAN, Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist, Princeton University ""Dr Steinbock's book The Fall of Israel is an illuminating and intelligent contribution to our understanding of the events in the Middle East.""DR. ERKKI TUOMIOJA, Historian and longest serving Minister for Foreign Affairs, Finland, prominent role as former spokesman for European foreign policy ""Dr. Steinbock's research illuminates what the public is reluctant to digest: Namely that Israel operates in open rebellion against international law, refusing to live in peace with Palestine's native population and with neighboring States.""ALFRED DE ZAYAS, Former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order ""The Fall of Israel is a stunning look at the longstanding forces undermining the state of Israel and the lives of Palestinians, while fostering genocidal atrocities and regional escalation."" THE WORLD FINANCIAL REVIEW ""Eight years ago I said that Israel would not be a state in 20 years; today I reaffirm that prognosis adding only that it won't take 12 more years. Many of my reasons for reaching that conclusion -- and indeed far more -- are elaborated in The Fall of Israel. Apparently, not many Americans want to know these truths -- they're too nuanced, complex, and damning; but if you happen to be in that group of us who believe strongly in the rule of law -- U.S. domestic law and international humanitarian and criminal law in particular -- and in democracy, then you need to read this book. When you finish, I hope you will understand that our current national path leads us straight to hell. ""LAWRENCE WILKERSON, Col, USA (Ret) and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell ""The Fall of Israel attempts the gigantic task of making sense out of the current situation in Israel/Palestine. It is ambitious in its scope and breadth, yet it successfully creates a context in which we can understand the rapidly shifting and moving events in the Middle East. Vital reading for anyone concerned with this issue, and provides perceptive insight that is sorely needed."" JONATHAN KUTTAB, international human rights attorney, co-founder of Nonviolence International and co-founder of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, ""Israel is in deep trouble at home and abroad. It has become an apartheid state that is executing a genocide in Gaza. The Fall of Israel does an outstanding job explaining the causes and the evolution of the disastrous path that Israel is on. This book deserves to be widely read by anyone interested in understanding contemporary Israel."" JOHN MEARSHEIMER, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

""The Fall of Israel explains excellently how 76 years of repression and suffering for the Palestinians has been facilitated by the unconditional American support for Israelf."" MOGENS LYKKETOFT, Former Danish Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations General Assembly 2015-2016 ""Dr Steinbock's book The Fall of Israel is an illuminating and intelligent contribution to our understanding of the events in the Middle East."" DR. ERKKI TUOMIOJA, Historian and longest serving Minister for Foreign Affairs, Finland, prominent role as former spokesman for European foreign policy ""Dr. Steinbock's research illuminates what the public is reluctant to digest: Namely that Israel operates in open rebellion against international law, refusing to live in peace with Palestine's native population and with neighboring States."" ALFRED DE ZAYAS, Former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order ""The Fall of Israel attempts the gigantic task of making sense out of the current situation in Israel/Palestine. It is ambitious in its scope and breadth, yet it successfully creates a context in which we can understand the rapidly shifting and moving events in the Middle East. Vital reading for anyone concerned with this issue, and provides perceptive insight that is sorely needed."" JONATHAN KUTTAB, international human rights attorney, co-founder of Nonviolence International and co-founder of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, ""The Fall of Israel is one of the most comprehensive academic books on the Palestinian crisis. . .This book thoroughly and accurately explains significant facts about the objectives and crimes of Zionism, the likes of which are rarely found in previous academic works."" SEYED HOSSEIN MOUSAVIAN, Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist, Princeton University ""Israel is in deep trouble at home and abroad. It has become an apartheid state that is executing a genocide in Gaza. The Fall of Israel does an outstanding job explaining the causes and the evolution of the disastrous path that Israel is on. This book deserves to be widely read by anyone interested in understanding contemporary Israel."" JOHN MEARSHEIMER, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

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Dr. Dan Steinbock is an internationally-renowned expert on the multipolar world economy. The founder of Difference Group Ltd, he has served in the India China and America Institute (US), the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China) and the EU Center (Singapore). He has lectured around the world and consulted for multinationals, and multilateral institutions, such as the OECD and the EU, and been interviewed by and contributed to major media worldwide. He has supported Israel's Peace movement and Israeli-Palestinian talks since the 1970s.

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