What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?; Hope and Despair: Israel’s Future in the New Middle East; Hamas: The Quest for Power; Blindness: October 7 and the Left

What Does Israel Fear from Palestine ?; Hope and Despair: Israel’s Future in the New Middle East; Hamas: The Quest for Power; Blindness: October 7 and the LeftPalestinians inspect their tents in Rafah after an Israeli army operation in May against an area previously designated by the Israeli army as safe for displaced Palestinians.

Professor of Politics at Queen’s University Belfast Beverley Milton-Edwards and Reuters journalist Stephen Farrell return to their 2010 study of the Islamist rulers of Gaza in: The Quest for Power, effectively an update of their earlier book.

Israel would also ignore the millions flowing into Hamas’s coffers from abroad in the early years of the group’s existence, the clear purpose being to provide a counterbalance to the PLO.

We are given an excellent account of Israel’s far-right settler movement. The author notes that Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of the Irgun paramilitary organisation, was a lot more lucid about the Palestinians’ likelihood to resist colonisation than Labour were, however racist and eliminationist his attitude towards Arabs was. Jabotinsky’s hardline ideology is in the ascendant in Israel today, facilitated by the son of his one-time personal secretary Benzion Netanyahu.

In Blindness: October 7 and the Left, published as the May 2024 issue of The Jewish Quarterly, journalist Hadley Freeman takes issue with the radical left and its anti-Zionist stances that allegedly bleed into anti-Semitism. Freeman says the October 7th attacks left her in no doubt that “the progressive left hates Jews”. She elaborates on that argument in this 80-page polemic, with varying degrees of success.

Some on the left will say that bringing this up is simply distracting from Israel’s actions against the Palestinians but that is to obfuscate. Jews have been murdered and targeted on several occasions in recent years in both the US and Europe and it is understandable that they might be sensitive to a degrading rhetorical atmosphere.

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