As pessimistic as that view is (and it is mine, not the authors), books such as Saree Makdisi's Palestine Inside Out will add to the growing list of works that nibble away at the American-Israeli decontextualized and international criminal actions that sustain the repression of the Palestinian people. It should not be an easy read - it is more than history and current events, but should reach the soul of the reader, awakening or revitalizing a basic revulsion of man's incomprehensibly stupid emotional, physical and spiritual brutality against other humans.
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