World Affairs
Saree Makdisi. The catastrophe inflicted on Gaza – and the costs to Israel’s standing.
17/08/2014The Israeli public relations is almost as powerful as the Israeli military machine. An alternative view is expressed below by Saree Makdisi, a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA, and the author of ‘Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation’. This article was published in ‘Mondoweiss’ which describes itself as ‘a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective’. John Menadue
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/
catastrophe-inflicted- standing.html
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