''The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians'' is a 1983 book by
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ...
about the relationship between the US,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
and the
Palestinians
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
. Chomsky examines the origins of this relationship and its meaningful consequences for the Palestinians and other Arabs. The book mainly concentrates on the
1982 Lebanon War
The 1982 Lebanon War, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee ( he, מבצע שלום הגליל, or מבצע של"ג ''Mivtsa Shlom HaGalil'' or ''Mivtsa Sheleg'') by the Israeli government, later known in Israel as the Lebanon War or the First L ...
and the "
pro-Zionist bias" of most US media and intellectuals, as Chomsky puts it.
The book was updated in 1999 and contains three new chapters, drawing upon material from ''
Z Magazine
Z Communications is a left-wing activist-oriented media group founded in 1986 by Michael Albert and Lydia Sargent.Max Elbaum''Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che'' London, England, UK; New York, New York, US: Verso, ...
'' and other publications. New developments that have been incorporated include the
First Intifada
The First Intifada, or First Palestinian Intifada (also known simply as the intifada or intifadah),The word ''intifada'' () is an Arabic word meaning "uprising". Its strict Arabic transliteration is '. was a sustained series of Palestinian ...
, Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the ongoing peace process.
Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''White ...
, who also contributed the new foreword, said, "Chomsky's major claim is that Israel and the United States - especially the latter - are rejectionists opposed to peace, whereas the Arabs, including the
PLO
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; ar, منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية, ') is a Palestinian nationalist political and militant organization founded in 1964 with the initial purpose of establishing Arab unity and s ...
, for years have been trying to accommodate themselves to the reality of Israel."
External links
''Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There''''The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians''''Turning the Tide: U.S. intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace''''After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology''''After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology''''The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism''''The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism''''American Power and the New Mandarins''''The Pentagon Papers. Senator Gravel ed. vol. V. Critical Essays. Boston''''Counter-Revolutionary Violence – Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda''
Books by Noam Chomsky
Books about foreign relations of the United States
Books about the Arab–Israeli conflict
Books critical of Israel
1983 non-fiction books
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