Overview
Amira Hass has intimate knowledge of the experience of both Israelis and Palestinians. The daughter of concentration camp survivors, Hass has chosen to live in a Palestinian town to provide a first-hand description of what daily life is like for the population, in particular how the Israeli army behaves and the effects of the army's presence. Writing for the Israeli newspaper ""Ha'aretz"" and other journals, Hass presents unsettling truths: as the Israeli government measures its success in Palestinian deaths, many Palestinians can chart their victory only in terms of the fear they can inspire. ""The game is now who is more afraid, and who is less afraid of dying,"" Hass writes.
Full Product Details
Author: Amira Hass ,
Rachel Leah Jones ,
Rachel Leah Jones
Publisher: Autonomedia
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Dimensions:
Width: 11.40cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 17.80cm
Weight: 0.181kg
ISBN: 9781584350194
ISBN 10: 1584350199
Pages: 209
Publication Date: 27 May 2003
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Language: Hebrew
Reviews
Reporting from Ramallah is frontline stuff, powerful in the accumulation of daily detail. -- Iain Finlayson, The Times Weekend Review Stark, simple analysis underpinned by exemplary interviews and a fine historical and moral sense. -- Mark Mazower, New Statesman Readers interested in understanding this conflict will appreciate Hass' honesty and insight. -- Vanessa Bush, Booklist Anyone who wants an in-depth, humanizing portrait of the Palestinians should look no further. -- Publishers Weekly The Palestinians need a sovereign Palestinian state. That Israel lives under constant threat to its very existence is indisputable, but no one who cares about Israel should wish it to survive whatever the means. A particular debt of gratitude is owed to courageous Israeli Jews such as Amira Hass who have born witness to the increasingly cruel terms of Israeli military occupation and settler annexation. Amira Hass speaks on behalf of justice; in speaking of the sufferings and the rights of people in despair, she defends the true interests of Israel. --Susan Sontag
The Palestinians need a sovereign Palestinian state. That Israel lives under constant threat to its very existence is indisputable, but no one who cares about Israel should wish it to survive whatever the means. A particular debt of gratitude is owed to courageous Israeli Jews such as Amira Hass who have born witness to the increasingly cruel terms of Israeli military occupation and settler annexation. Amira Hass speaks on behalf of justice; in speaking of the sufferings and the rights of people in despair, she defends the true interests of Israel. --Susan Sontag
Author Information
Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles. Sylv re Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.
