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Israel on the Brink

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Israel on the Brink

By: Ilan Pappé
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Israel can’t go on like this.

7 October and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza laid bare the cracks in its foundations. It was unveiled as a country unable to protect its citizens, divided between messianic theocrats and selective liberals, resented by its neighbours and losing the support of Jews worldwide. While its leaders justify bombing campaigns exceeding the worst atrocities of World War 2 and a spiralling humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, Israel is becoming a pariah state. Its worst enemy is not Hamas, but itself.

Ilan Pappe paves a path out of the Jewish state, rooted in restorative justice and decolonisation, including the return of refugees, the end of illegal settlements, and building bridges with the Arab world. The future can be one of reconciliation, not endless war.

©2026 Ilan Pappé (P)2026 W.F. Howes Ltd. Israel & Palestine Middle East Politics & Government World Refugee War Iran Holocaust Africa
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In some ways it feels bleak to read a somewhat hopeful and certainly constructive book, published so recently (6 months ago) that already feels anachronistic: a lot of the suggested solutions feel further away than ever in the face of Israel’s current forms of aggressions and increased expansions.

However I have a responsibility as an educator, and we all have responsibility as humans, to not give up hope and fight for those oppressed by Israel - be it their bombed neighbours, the countries whose governments are lobbied for financial and military complicit subordination, or the violently oppressed Palestinians themselves - at least for as long as any survive, even if in depleted numbers and horrifyingly worsened conditions.

At least with this book we are offered imaginings of solutions rather than understandable but inactive despair. I’d prefer reality to imaginings but I prefer imaginings to hopeless defeat.

This book is written by an Israeli born academic - an important reminder than even when polls suggest the vast majority of the population support their government and military’s war crimes, not everyone does. Another form of hope.

Bleak but at least striving for solutions

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