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My Israel Question by Antony Loewenstein

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October 2006, no. 285

My Israel Question by Antony Loewenstein

MUP, $32.95 pb, 340 pp

My Israel Question by Antony Loewenstein

by
October 2006, no. 285

When I started reading My Israel Question, the Israel Defence Force Chief of Staff had just vowed to ‘turn back the clock in Lebanon by twenty years’; and the demolition was underway. Beirut’s airport, major roads, bridges, power generation facilities and other civilian infrastructure had been bombed, and villages and densely populated suburbs were being reduced to rubble. In a report some weeks later (August 23), Amnesty estimated that 1183 Lebanese had been killed, mostly civilian, about one-third of them children. The injured numbered 4054, and 970,000 people were displaced; 30,000 houses, 120 bridges, 94 roads, 25 fuel stations and 900 businesses were destroyed. Israel lost 118 soldiers and 41 civilians, and up to 300,000 people in northern Israel were driven into bomb shelters. Israel estimates that Hezbollah, the putative object of its wrath, lost about 500 fighters.

Tamas Pataki reviews 'My Israel Question' by Antony Loewenstein

My Israel Question

by Antony Loewenstein

MUP, $32.95 pb, 340 pp

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