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Gaza

Changing the World and Opening Eyes

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Hamas entered southern Israel on October 7, killing Israeli soldiers and civilians. Israel retaliated, killing upward of 38,000 Palestinians and wounding some 80,000 others. For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been ignored. Hamas’s actions and Israel’s response have put issues of apartheid, genocide and famine front and center. Students and activists from around the world have taken up the Palestinian cause and selflessly made it their own.

Sultan has taken her experience and transported us into the region to better understand its complexities.

—Jack Rice, ex-CIA officer

Description

Gaza: Changing the World and Opening Eyes is Cathy Sultan’s urgent, clear-eyed guide to the crisis that followed October 7, 2023—and to the backlash now unfolding in the United States. Drawing on decades of lived engagement with the region, Sultan sketches Gaza’s history under occupation and blockade and explains why the public debate has become so fiercely policed.

In brisk, accessible chapters, she unpacks contested terms—genocide, apartheid, Zionism, antisemitism—alongside the roles of media, social platforms, propaganda, and intimidation in shaping what citizens are told to see. At the center are student encampments demanding divestment and a permanent ceasefire, portrayed as a generational moral awakening that could change policy from the ground up.

Product Details

PublishedAugust 5, 2024
ImprintWisdom Editions
LanguageEnglish
Print length134
ISBN-13978-1962834193
Dimensions5 x 0.34 x 8 inches

Standing in the shoes of those who face each other daily across this dangerous divide forces us to see beyond media stereotypes too often reduced to terrorist and victim. The fast-paced narrative and compelling interviews brings to life a conflict whose complexities Americans must try to understand.

—Sarah Harder, President, National Peace Foundation

Cathy Sultan wrote this book so that no one can say “I didn’t know” as an excuse for condoning the tragedy in Gaza, ongoing not just for the past year but since 1948. The wealth of information provided by Ms. Sultan reveals the grim reality on the ground, including the IDF’s Hannibal Doctrine that results in intentional killing of its own soldiers. She also suggests how to end this heartbreaking disaster.

—Lisa Turner, verified review on Amazon

A profoundly important read. I finally have an understanding of the horrible plight of the people of Gaza.

—Verified reader on Amazon

Sultan pulls back the curtain, opens our eyes, cleans our antennae with this well written, succinct & easy to comprehend book of truths & surprising amount of mistruths we have been living with.

—David Church, verified review on Amazon

Cathy Sultan provides a great opportunity to learn and understand the complexities in Gaza. She carefully gives important background facts to help one understand how this situation has evolved. Her real-life experiences living in the region and in the US give the reader a valuable perspective to be a more informed citizen.

—Carol Gablere, verified review on Amazon

In this account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Cathy Sultan leverages a range of journalistic resources to explain the conflict in historical terms. The result is an antidote to American media’s typically one-sided coverage. After reading this book, I now better understand why Hamas took the action it did on October 7, 2023.

—Professor Catmom, audiobook review on Amazon