Scenes from a Nightmare: The Imperialist Construction of Israel

Nothing in human history is "inevitable" in the sense in which the conclusion of a Euclidean proof follows of necessity the steps that precede it. But as a series of world events follow each other in time, the circle contracts and the range of possibilities narrows until the choices available are nothing more than various alternative routes to an overwhelming disaster. What follows is a simple outlining of some crucial tendencies and events that mark the first fifty years or so of this horror in Palestine.