Middle East Conflicts


On Palestine
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Defeating the Islamic State Group: The Battle for Kobani
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
The Egyptians
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
Children of the Jacaranda Tree
Jean Baudrillard
When an event and the broadcasting of that event in real time are too close together, the event is rendered undecidable and virtual; it is stripped of its historical dimension and removed from memory. We are in a generalized feedback effect. Wherever a mingling of this kind - a collision of poles - occurs, then the vital tension is discharged. Even in 'reality TV' where, in the live telling of the story, the immediate televisual acting, we see the confusion of existence and its double. There is ...more
Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

Piet Hein Wokke
Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.
Piet Hein Wokke, Revolution

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