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Winner of the 2014 Palestine Book Award

Efforts to achieve a “two-state solution” have finally collapsed; the struggle for justice in Palestine is at a crossroads. As Israel and its advocates lurch toward greater extremism, many ask where the struggle is headed. This book offers a clear analysis of this crossroads moment and looks forward with urgency down the path to a more hopeful future.In this essential work, journalist Ali Abunimah takes a  comprehensive look at the shifting tides of the politics  of Palestine and the Israelis in a neoliberal world and  makes a compelling and surprising case for why the  Palestine solidarity movement just might win.

Ali Abunimah is the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli Palestinian Impasse, and co-founder and director of the widely acclaimed publication The Electronic Intifada. Based in the United States, he has written hundreds of articles and been an active part of the movement for justice in Palestine for 20 years. He is the recipient of a 2013 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship.

‘Every community that stands fast, loving its people and its land, its customs and its ways, will be seen, eventually, as worthy of saving. This is because it is our own humanity we are learning from, our own value. There will also arise a special voice to champion us, one that is brave, trustworthy and true. In The Battle for Justice in Palestine it is the voice of Ali Abunimah, fierce, wise - a warrior for justice and peace - someone whose large heart, one senses, beyond his calm, is constantly on fire. A pragmatist but also a poet. This is the book to read to understand the present bizarre and ongoing complexity of the Palestine/Israel tragedy. And though it is filled with the grim reality of this long and deadly, ugly and dehumanizing, conflict, it also offers hope: that as more people awaken to the shocking reality of what has for decades been going on, we can bring understanding and restitution to the Palestinian people. Their struggle to exist in dignity and peace in their own homeland - and this may be the biggest surprise of Abunimah's book - is mirrored in the struggles for survival and autonomy of more than a few of us.’
—Alice Walker

‘This is the best book on Palestine in the last decade. No existing book presents the staggering details and sophistication of analysis that Abunimah’s book offers. Abunimah’s scope includes an analysis of the politics, economics, environmental policies, identity politics, international relations, academic scholarship and activism, global solidarity, and official and unofficial lobbies that have come to bear on Palestine and the Palestinians. The Battle for Justice in Palestine is the most comprehensive treatment of Palestinian suffering under Israeli control and offers the only possible way to end it. It is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the current situation of the Palestinians and Israel.’
—Joseph Massad, Columbia University

‘With incisive style and scrupulous attention to documentation and detail, Ali Abunimah's new book offers a complex portrait, from every angle, of the Palestinian struggle for justice today.’
—Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace

'A crucially needed dose of educated hope. This is what hits me from this fascinating amalgam of incisive journalism, analytic prose and intellectually compelling vision that emanates from many years of brilliant activism. Sailing effortlessly from the domestic to the global, from Johannesburg to Belfast and from Chicago to Tel Aviv, Ali Abunimah paints a lucid, accessible picture out of a complex web of racism, racialized oppression, and creative resistance. Abunimah does not give us hope; he helps us dig for it within us by meticulously laying out before us the facts, the trends, the challenges and the inspiring resistance to them.’
—Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement, author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

‘In The Battle for Justice in Palestine, Ali Abunimah—the most astute commentator writing on Palestine today—bursts the leaky myths of Israeli exceptionalism while carefully examining where the battle for Palestine is currently being waged. Forget the endless “peace process,” which has ushered in little more than massive economic exploitation, tragic environmental degradation, and servile and destructive politics. Focus instead, Abunimah tells us, on the many civil society and campus initiatives around the world that are bravely ushering in a new era of global grass-roots organizing for justice. Rich in information and deep in analysis, The Battle for Justice in Palestine will inspire readers that Palestinian self-determination is not only possible but absolutely necessary.’
—Moustafa Bayoumi, author, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

‘Those familiar with Ali Abunimah’s writing know to expect sophistication without theoretical jargon... His latest book, The Battle for Justice in Palestine, both reflects and synthesizes the dramatic shifts in the discourse around the Israel-Palestine conflict in the United States as well as in Israel and the Arab world, in particular the emergence of one-state demands and the coalescence of an anti-Zionist position on the left.’
—Steven Salaita, The New Inquiry

‘Though he never loses sight of the grim reality on the ground, Abunimah's writing is infused with a sense of optimism about the possibility of realising decolonization and a just future for all who live in historic Palestine.’
—Ben White, Middle East Monitor

‘The Battle for Justice in Palestine is a crucial book appearing in a crucial time... Abunimah strips away Israel’s justifications for its occupation and makes a vital contribution to real justice in Palestine.’
—Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch

‘The inspiring vision Abunimah lays out reflects the hope stirred by a growing and increasingly successful movement on the ground, which is helping to turn the tide in the struggle for Palestine. For those active in this movement, this book is a must-read, but its lessons are for anyone interested in the fight for a better world.’
—Wael Elasady, Socialist Worker

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While the outcomes of the tumultuous uprisings that continue to transfix the Arab world remain uncertain, the root causes of rebellion persist. Drawing upon extensive empirical research, Lineages of Revolt tracks the major shifts in the region’s political economy over recent decades. In this illuminating and original work, Adam Hanieh explores the contours of neoliberal policies, dynamics of class and state formation, imperialism and the nature of regional accumulation, the significance of Palestine and the Gulf Arab states, and the ramifications of the global economic crisis. By mapping the complex and contested nature of capitalism in the Middle East, the book demonstrates that a full understanding of the uprisings needs to go beyond a simple focus on ‘dictators and democracy.’

‘This important, original work should be read by anyone with an interest in the political economy of the Middle East.’

– Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)

‘Hanieh’s groundbreaking book argues that we should not view the Gulf Arab states as anomalies in the worldwide economy.’

– Arab Studies Journal

‘Insightful, timely, and welcome...the analytical framework and substantial data he puts forward in the book will help readers map out the current and future processes of regional integration, class formations, and contradictions, and to situate these processes within the wider global political economy.’

– International Socialist Review

Adam Hanieh is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (UK). He is author of Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States.

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You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, US officers now claim that “Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today.” In Tomorrow’s Battlefield, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Nick Turse exposes the shocking true story of the US military’s spreading secret wars in Africa.

“A dogged and intrepid journalist who won’t take ‘no comment’ for an answer, Nick Turse has done a fantastic job of exposing the US military’s expansion into Africa and the proliferation of its secret missions on the continent.”

—Craig Whitlock, Pentagon correspondent, Washington Post

“[Turse’s] investigations of US military missions in Africa in Tomorrow’s Battlefield reveal a secret war with grave implications for Africans and Americans, alike.”

—Glenn Greenwald

“Nick Turse’s investigative reporting has revealed a remarkable picture of evolving US military operations in Africa that have been concealed from view but have ominous portent, as he demonstrates vividly and in depth.”

—Noam Chomsky

Nick Turse, an award-winning journalist and historian, is the author and editor of several books, including The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare (Haymarket Books), the managing editor of TomDispatch, and a fellow at the Nation Institute.

Chapters include:

• America’s Shadow Wars in Africa: Obama’s Scramble for Africa
• Blowback Central: The Terror Diaspora
• AFRICOM’s Gigantic “Small Footprint”: The Pivot to Africa
• American Proxy Wars in Africa: A New Model for Expeditionary Warfare
• Nonstop Ops: US Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa
• AFRICOM Becomes a “War-Fighting Combatant Command”: Going to War on the Sly
• The Pentagon, Libya, and Tomorrow’s Blowback Today: How Not to End Violence in a War-Torn Land
• How “Benghazi” Birthed the New Normal in Africa: A Secret African Mission and an African Mission That’s No Secret
• An East–West Showdown: China, America, and a New Cold War in Africa
• Christmas in July and the Collapse of America’s Great African Experiment: As a Man-Made Famine Looms, Christmas Comes Early to South Sudan
• American Monuments to Failure in Africa? How Not to Win Hearts and Minds
• American “Success” and the Rise of West African Piracy: Pirates of the Gulf of Guinea
• The Outpost That Doesn’t Exist in the Country You Can’t Locate: A Base Camp, an Authoritarian Regime, and the Future of US Blowback in Africa
• Finding Barack Obama in South Sudan

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AMEC insights 2014 brings together the series of AMEC briefs and AMEC insights published by the Afro-Middle East Centre in 2014. These two publications, issued regularly by AMEC, seek to document events in the region, analyse what they mean for the people of the region, the African continent and the globe, and chart future scenarios for how events might unfold. This book thus presents the institute’s analyses of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for that period, as events unfolded. With 2014 being another tumultuous year in the region, the book covers much ground. It presents the reader with analysis that was done in the midst of dramatic events taking place, and with scenarios for the future in the various contexts. It makes an excellent record of the year, and includes chapters on Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, the Islamic State group, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Nigeria, the Palestinian people, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

The Afro-Middle East Centre publishes, on average, one analysis piece a week, addressing the geopolitical and economic situation of the MENA region. Most of the chapters have been authored or co-authored by researchers at AMEC. Other chapters were authored by researchers outside of AMEC. Of these, some were commissioned by AMEC while others were published in terms of publication-sharing agreements with or permission from other institutions.

AMEC intends annually to publish this collection, as a public record of its analyses for the year, and as a measure too of the value of these analyses.

The chapters in Volume 1 cover the entire MENA region, and include:

• An analysis of Egypt’s draft constitution: Possible impacts on child labour and unionisation
• Erdogan and Gülen: A political battle through the courts
• When voting means very little: Egypt’s constitutional referendum
• Tunisia’s new constitution and the future of its democratic transition
• Round Two in Geneva, but no breakthrough in sight for Syria
• Egypt – cabinet resignations and increasing economic deterioration
• Parliament moves fast, but still no break in Libyan political gridlock
• Iranian-American rapprochement: Positions of the main Iranian roleplayers
• Turkey’s Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi and the Kurdish question: From conflict to negotiation
• The pitfalls of weaponry: Undermining legitimacy in Libya
• Saudi-Qatari tensions and implications for the Persian Gulf
• Murder, spies and alibis: Behind the rhetoric between Mohammed Dahlan and Mahmoud Abbas
• Did Erdogan win a popularity contest in Turkey's municipal elections?
• Egypt’s presidential elections: When the result has already been decided
• Algerian election may be more about internal regime disputes
• Is Iraq facing a third term under Maliki?Palestinian reconciliation and the future of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations
• Erdogan’s march to the presidency: Possible scenarios
• Negotiations and military action to free Nigerian schoolgirls
• Israeli foreign minister Lieberman readies for an African safari
• No surprises in Syria’s presidential election in the midst of civil war
• Rapid gains by ISIS in Iraq are the result of a political rather than a military crisis
• Iraq: ISIS has a credibility crisis
• The real targets of Israel’s Operation Brother’s Keeper is the Hamas-Palestinian Authority unity government
• Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood: Struggling to remain relevant
• Co-ordination between Palestinian Authority and Israeli security forces keeps Palestinian outrage in check
• Turkey’s presidential election can potentially reconfigure Turkish politics
• Escalation of Israeli onslaught on Gaza, and no ceasefire in sight
• From Maracanã to Gaza: ‘Shooting’ and ‘firing’
• Prospects for the end of Israel’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’
• Gaza’s challenges for journalism
• Women in conflict
• The Arab counterrevolution is in decline
• Anti-West is far too simplistic a view
• Regional dimensions to the Libyan conflict
• Houthi gains in Yemen: Regional and local dimensions
• Analysing Tunisia’s first post-revolutionary legislative elections
• The battle for Kobane: Turkey, USA and the future of the Kurds
• The crisis in northern Sinai worsens
• Ennahda’s post-election future
• Tensions in Jerusalem demand political action, not moral outrage