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Peace Under Fire:
Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement
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by Josie
Sandercock, Radhika Sainath, Marissa McLaughlin, Hussein
Khalili, Nicholas Blincoe, Huwaida Arraf, Ghassan Andoni
The story of this movement reveals the horror of the
occupation and the new hope for growing international
solidarity.
The last two years have been the most brutal in the entire
thirty-six year history of Israel's military occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza Strip; indeed the most violent since the
creation of Israel itself. The International Solidarity
Movement (ISM) was founded as a peaceful resistance to that
violence. Its highly visible actions, which have included
breaking the sieges in Ramallah and Bethlehem, as well as
saving countless lives, have shone a spotlight on Israel's
occupation. Outlawed in Israel and nominated for the Nobel
Peace Prize, the ISM has threatened the governing coalition
with fears that Israeli opinion might at last be turning
against them.
In showing what risks Palestinians take, ISM volunteers have
also tragically been targeted. The deaths of Rachel Corrie and
Tom Hurndall, as well as the shootings of Kate Edwards,
Caoimhe Butterley and Brian Avery, have never been fully
explained, covered up in the US and UK and brushed aside in
Israel—an unfortunate consequence of Israel's "war on terror."
Collecting previously published news articles on the movement,
giving accounts drawn from web-logs and diaries as they
happened, and including last writings of the murdered American
Rachel Corrie and contributions from the Hurndall family,
Peace Under Fire reveals the real horror of life under
occupation and describes the first signs of a new wave of
international solidarity. 20 b/w illustrations.
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