How the "peace process" has made life impossible for
ordinary Palestinians.
This book is not about suicide bombers. Tending one's
fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for
ordinary Palestinians, such everyday activities require
negotiating permits and passes, curfews and closures,
"sterile roads" and "seam zones"—bureaucratic hurdles
ultimately as deadly as outright military incursion.
Not since the late Edward Said has there been such an
articulate Arab voice on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In devastating detail, Saree Makdisi reveals how the "peace
process" institutionalized Palestinians' loss of control
over their inner and outer lives. He shows how Israel's
massive concrete walls going up around Gaza and the West
Bank isolate communities from their lands, their
livelihoods, and each other. Through eye-opening statistics
and day-by-day reports, we learn how Palestinians have seen
their hopes for freedom and statehood culminate in the
creation of abject "territories" comparable to open-air prisons.
Anyone surprised at Arab anger or the election of Hamas must
read this book. 33 photographs, 12 maps.
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