Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000--2010

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Breaking the Silence (Author)
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Human Rights

“One of the most important books on Israel/Palestine in this generation.”—The New York Review of Books

Support for Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory—both internationally and within Israel itself—rests on the belief that the Israeli army’s presence in the West Bank and Gaza is essentially protective, aimed at safeguarding the country from terror. But Israeli soldiers themselves tell a profoundly different story. In this landmark work, which includes more than a hundred soldiers’ testimonies collected over a decade, what emerges is a broad policy that is as much offensive as defensive. In their own words, the soldiers reveal in vivid detail how key planks of the army’s program have served to accelerate Israeli acquisition of Palestinian land, cripple all normal political and social life, and ultimately thwart the possibility of Palestinian independence.

Taking aim at a silence of complicity that perpetuates the justification for occupation, the soldiers who speak out here offer a gripping and immediate record of oppression. Powerful and incontrovertible, Our Harsh Logic is a supremely significant contribution to one of the world’s most vexed conflicts.

• Rank: #105943 in Books
• Published on: 2013-09-03
• Released on: 2013-09-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .76 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Wounded I Am More Awake: Finding Meaning after Terror

Wounded I Am More Awake: Finding Meaning after Terror
Julia Lieblich (Author), Esad Boskailo (Author)
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Wounded I Am More Awake follows the story of Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide.

This gripping account raises questions for healers, survivors, and readers striving to understand the reality of war and the aftermath of terror. Is it possible to find meaning after enduring crimes against humanity? Can people heal after trauma?

Human rights journalist Julia Lieblich takes the reader through Boskailo's early years under Tito to the wars when friends turned on friends. She documents his harrowing experiences in the camps, where the men he once joined for coffee murder his best friend from childhood.

But the story does not end there. Boskailo moves to the United States and decides to become a psychiatrist so he can guide survivors through the long-term process of restoring hope. Today, inspired by the late psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, Boskailo uses his own experience to help patients mourn their losses and find meaning in the aftermath of terror.

• Rank: #223350 in Books
• Published on: 2012-04-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x .59" w x 5.51" l, .45 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion

Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Anthony Pratkanis (Author), Elliot Aronson (Author)
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Americans create 57% of the world's advertising while representing only 6% of its population; half of our waking hours are spent immersed in the mass media. Persuasion has always been integral to the democratic process, but increasingly, thoughtful discussion is being replaced with simplistic soundbites and manipulative messages.

Drawing on the history of propaganda as well as on contemporary research in social psychology, Age of Propaganda shows how the tactics used by political campaigners, sales agents, advertisers, televangelists, demagogues, and others often take advantage of our emotions by appealing to our deepest fears and most irrational hopes, creating a distorted vision of the world we live in.

This revised and updated edition includes coverage of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, recent election campaigns, talk radio, teen suicide, U.F.O. abductions, the Columbine shootings, and novel propaganda tactics based on hypocrisy and false allegations.

• Rank: #79703 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.21" h x .75" w x 6.10" l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages