THE FALL OF ISRAEL: The Degradation of Israel’s Politics, Economy & Military

THE FALL OF ISRAEL: The Degradation of Israel’s Politics, Economy & Military

By Dan Steinbock
April 16, 2024

What makes The Fall of Israel unique is its comprehensive scope. It covers Israel’s political, economic, social and military changes, the shifts in the Palestinian struggle for sovereignty, Israel’s degradation into apartheid rule, the attendant atrocities, the regional and global reverberations and the  human and economic costs, both prior and subsequent to Israel’s fatal war on Gaza. There, its nightmarish actions have led to the engagement of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, renewed international boycotts, and massive domestic and international protests.

“Israel is in deep trouble at home and abroad. It has become an apartheid state that is executing a genocide in Gaza. The Fall of Israel does an outstanding job explaining the causes and the evolution of the disastrous path that Israel is on. This book deserves to be widely read by anyone interested in understanding contemporary Israel.”—JOHN MEARSHEIMER, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago and co-author of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

“This impressive book provides a comprehensive and incisive answer to the question how we got to where we are in Israel and Palestine today.  In a very accessible manner, Steinbock narrates the making of a messianic and theocratic Israel which is a menace for the Palestinians, the region and no less important, to itself. Its downfall as the book predicts is neigh, but on the way, it wreaks havoc and destruction. This is the picture world leaders must be aware of and challenge before it is too late.” —ILAN PAPPE, Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, Author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“Eight years ago I said that Israel would not be a state in 20 years; today I reaffirm that prognosis adding only that it won’t take 12 more years.  Many of my reasons for reaching that conclusion — and indeed far more  — are elaborated in The Fall of Israel.  Apparently, not many Americans want to know these truths — they’re too nuanced, complex, and damning; but if you happen to be in that group of us who believe strongly in the rule of law — U.S. domestic law and international humanitarian and criminal law in particular — and in democracy, then you need to read this book.  When you finish, I hope you will understand that our current national path leads us straight to hell. “—LAWRENCE WILKERSON, Col, USA (Ret) and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell

The Fall of Israel is one of the most comprehensive academic books on the Palestinian crisis. . .This book thoroughly and accurately explains significant facts about the objectives and crimes of Zionism, the likes of which are rarely found in previous academic works.”—SEYED HOSSEIN MOUSAVIAN, Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist, Princeton University

“Dr. Steinbock’s research illuminates what the public is reluctant to digest: Namely that Israel operates in open rebellion against international law, refusing to live in peace with Palestine’s native population and with neighboring States.”—ALFRED DE ZAYAS, Former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order

“Dr Steinbock’s book The Fall of Israel is an illuminating and intelligent contribution to our understanding of the events in the Middle East.”—DR. ERKKI TUOMIOJA, Historian and longest serving Minister for Foreign Affairs, Finland, who had a prominent role as the spokesman for European foreign policy

“The Fall of Israel explains excellently how 76 years of repression and suffering for the Palestinians has been facilitated by the unconditional American support for Israelf.”—MOGENS LYKKETOFT, Former Danish Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations General Assembly 2015-2016

“Vital reading for anyone concerned with this issue, and provides perceptive insight that is sorely needed.” —JONATHAN KUTTAB, international human rights attorney, co-founder of Nonviolence International and co-founder of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq

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THE OBLITERATION DOCTRINE: Genocide Prevention, Israel, Gaza and the West

THE OBLITERATION DOCTRINE: Genocide Prevention, Israel, Gaza and the West

By Dan Steinbock
April 23, 2025

AVAILABLE NOW DIRECTLY FROM CLARITY

FOREWORD BY Dr. MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD, former Prime Minister of Malaysia

“Dan Steinbock’s The Obliteration Doctrine: Genocide Prevention, Israel, Gaza and the West is not only a deeply original examination of the ongoing genocide in Gaza from multiple dimensions, but also a timely theoretical framework that warns against the emerging destructive warfare in the 21st century…. This book will serve as both a critical resource for understanding the Gaza case and a roadmap for preventing future genocides.” AHMET DAVUTOGLU, former Foreign Minister and Prime Minister of Turkiye. Founder and leader of the Future Party, author of Systemic Earthquake: The Struggle for World Order (2019), and prominent academic in International Relations.

“The West did not flounder into genocide complicity – it plunged into it willfully. Dan Steinbock’s timely new book explains how.” YANIS VAROUFAKIS, internationally-renowned economist, secretary-general of a pan-European political alliance and the former Finance Minister, Greece

“This important study adds a new term to the lexicon on genocide, ‘the obliteration doctrine’, with its detailed review of and insights into the Gaza conflict of 2023-5, notably in the application of international law and its judicial mechanisms. Dan Steinbock’s discussion of the international legal challenges to Israel’s conduct make this a vital contribution to our understanding of the conflict.” WILLIAM SCHABAS, professor of international law, Middlesex University London and author of Genocide in International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2025

“Dan Steinbock has written an indispensable book that illuminates the most fundamental challenges facing humanity at a time when a massive genocide darkens the skies hovering above the planet. …This is a deeply challenging text that deserves close reading, but more than this, citizen engagement and anti-genocide activism.” RICHARD FALK, former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University

“The real purpose of the 1948 Genocide Convention is prevention. This book helps us understand why we have failed.” ALFRED DE ZAYAS, former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, international expert on human rights and ethnic expulsions

“Gaza is our moral ground zero. As Dan Steinbock compellingly recounts, even more shocking than the depth of deprivation in Gaza is the candor with which its architects convey their intent and the impunity they enjoy.” ALEX DE WAAL, internationally renowned authority on famine and the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

“Dan Steinbock advances the urgent discourse begun in his The Fall of Israel, advancing from a concern with moral responsibility to the framework of legal obligation. His astute analysis dissects how States facilitating genocide—whether through direct aid, political cover, or willful inaction—are culpable under international law… This book is an important contribution to human rights scholarship and a clarion call for justice—when humanity needs it most.” CURTIS F.J. DOEBBLER, international human rights lawyer, professor of law, and author who has practiced and taught international law in several world regions.

“With The Obliteration Doctrine, Dr. Steinbock has provided historians and layman readers alike the definitive guide to understanding the atrocities committed by the Israeli government with the assistance of the American empire. The book is very well documented, very readable, with a great amount of supporting evidence for his claims. I highly recommend it.” SCOTT HORTON, director of the Libertarian Institute, author of Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine

“The Obliteration Doctrine places the US-Israeli assault on Gaza in historical context, making clear that it is hardly an Israeli project that the United States and Europe are ‘complicit’ in, but rather a joint project between western governments and Israel to destroy a threat to their hegemony. While it may seem strange to write a book about a genocide that was documented in real time and live streamed to the world, this is a valuable contribution to understanding what happened, how, and why.” DR FEROZE SIDHWA. Trauma and critical care surgeon, and program director of San Joaquin General Hospital volunteering extensively in Palestine, including European hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, and in Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso.

” The great merit of Professor Dan Steinbock’s book is that, thanks to its historical, legal and geopolitical approaches, it allows us to grasp the complexity of the absolute tragedy that the Palestinian people are experiencing. By scrupulously studying the theory of the strategy of annihilation claimed to have been used for years by the Israeli army and the historical and legal nature of the notion of genocide, it is a valuable tool for understanding the ongoing human catastrophe in the Middle East.” EDGAR MORIN, internationally-renowned French philosopher and sociologist of information, polycrisis and comple, and  recipient of the French Legion of Honor.

 

        

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GAZA RISING: Voices from the Rubble

GAZA RISING: Voices from the Rubble

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Prof. Ilan Pappe
October 30, 2025

“Gaza Rising chronicles in excruciating detail the genocide. It is often in the minutiae and tiny, overlooked tragedies that the full horror, loss and suffering of the genocide is laid bare. Gaza Rising, because it is grounded in the daily struggle of Palestinians to endure the mass slaughter, juxtaposes the humanity and self-sacrifice of the Palestinians against the brutality and inhumanity of their Israeli oppressors. It exposes the moral bankruptcy and criminality of the apartheid state of Israel.” CHRIS HEDGES, former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times
“This is not a Dickens novel, but a chronicle of human suffering today, of real people, our sisters and brothers, who have been tortured and martyrized for decades with the consent of Western governments that continue to give military, political, economic, diplomatic and propagandistic support to the genocidal State. Palestinians are not terrorists, but victims of State terrorism… We all have a sacred duty to help the victims win the struggle for their right to exist. ALFRED DE ZAYAS, former UN Independent Expert, author Building a Just World Order.

“Each story is a love letter to a homeland that has filled these writers with such a palpable pride you feel they had no choice but to tell of all its beauty, even in its hardship.” BOBBY VYLAN, British punk rap artist

“The collection of stories and essays written by Gazan authors under the cruelest genocide in our lifetime, edited by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Prof. Ilan Pappe, and Romana Rubeo, is an incredible and crucial piece of evidence from the killing fields of Gaza, even before the end of this terrifying crime against humanity. On reading it one is bound to fall in love with the people of Gaza, with the people of Palestine – not just because of their immense pain and loss which is unimaginable, but mainly due their Sumoud – their immense but gentle strength, their humanity, and the ability to love, to exist, and to remain amazing human beings despite all that Zionist brutality has done to them over more than a century..” NAIM BRESHEETH, Professorial Research Associate,  SOAS University of London, author of An Army Like No Other. 

“A stunning collection of exceptional writing – by turns poetic, painful and precise – but always beautifully, universally, human. The Gazan writers in this gem of a collection are creating literature at the highest level.” HANAN KATTAN, Author. Palestine Revealed.

“Gaza Rising provides an invaluable insight, enabling the reader to finally comprehend the indomitable steadfastness of a people, who, despite their geographical constraints, size and material predicament, have become the beating heart of global change.” ROBERT INLAKESH, Prominent Expert on Palestine and the Middle East.

“When genocide is the project, the targets of that genocide remind us—indeed they keep us from forgetting—that their very acts of living are acts of resistance. The stories gathered here speak from the heart of Palestinian defiance and remind us of this truth, which is being tested like never before. If the people in these stories are heroic—and I believe they are—then this is a book of heroes. And of villains with many more weapons than souls among them.” RON JACOBS, Counterpunch

“The chapters of this book were not written in heated offices or in places of relative comfort. They were composed in Gaza, the frontline and compass of humanity, in flooded tents, demolished buildings, and rubble, under total blockade. From doctors to animal carers, lovers and resistance organisers, the steadfast ‘audacity and courage’ of the people of Gaza pours from every page. Their words should inspire us all to fight alongside them for a new world.” LOUIS BREHONY, author of Palestinian Music in Exile, editor of Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings, and director of Kofia: A Revolution Through Music

       

  

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THE MONSTROSITY OF OUR CENTURY: The War on Palestine and the Last Western Man

THE MONSTROSITY OF OUR CENTURY: The War on Palestine and the Last Western Man

By Amir Nour
September 15, 2025

AVAILABLE NOW DIRECTLY FROM CLARITY PRESS

“Today more than ever, Arabs and Muslims must become aware of the terrible maneuvers and plots being hatched against them by lighting the fires of discord and sedition among the members of the Ummah, between Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Kurds, Arabs and Berbers and Muslims and Christians. Proof of this are the turpitudes suffered by the central cause of the Arabs and Muslims, that of plundered Palestine. I highly recommend reading Amir Nour’s book because of the judicious choice of carefully documented writings by authoritative authors and studies, the sagacity of the analysis and the clairvoyance of the foresight.” DR. AHMED TALEB-IBRAHIMI, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria (1982-1988)

“The Monstrosity of Our Century is a deeply informed and meticulously researched work by a brilliant Arab intellectual familiar with both the Western and Islamic scholarly traditions. Uniquely, it draws on both traditions to dissect the factors that made both the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance movements inevitable and Western support for the genocidal reaction of the Israelis to this predictable. The author, Amir Nour eloquently and unflinchingly shows how the course of events in Palestine has discredited the moral authority of the West and devalued international law, while changing the world order and isolating Israel, making its survival increasingly doubtful.” DR. CHAS W. FREEMAN, Jr., formerly U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

“Amir Nour has made his bold and insightful book a prominent document exposing the Zionist settlement project, for which Palestinians and Arabs have paid a heavy price. Yet, the signs of the project’s failure are becoming clear, just as its racist foundations and intentions have been revealed over the past seventy years, and as exemplified in the ongoing genocidal war on Palestine.” HASSAN JANABI, former Iraqi Minister and former Ambassador to Japan and Turkey.

“A bold and refreshing critique of Western imperialism, centered on Israel’s settler colonialism in Palestine and its genocidal war on Gaza, Amir Nour’s book challenges many erroneous notions about the roots of global conflict, the binary narrative of the “war on terror,” and the dangerous “us vs. them” mentality espoused by Washington and its Western allies. By situating the Israeli war on the Palestinian people within a global context, Nour helps liberate the history of the so-called “conflict” from the provisional, often short-sighted approach to history. Additionally, the book brilliantly demonstrates the need for an alternative form of history —one that shifts from the ethno-centric, dominant Western approach to a more equitable “global history.” Strongly needed and highly recommended.” DR. RAMZY BAROUD, Author of My Father Was a Freedom Fighter and The Last Earth

“Neither to accuse the West, nor to defend the East, Amir Nour’s book brings back the human in us to the center, after having been, for so long, pushed to the margins of his own story. Nour strips this age of its borrowed virtues and moral disguises, revealing it as it truly is.
No reader of these pages should look away. Because truth, as the book demonstates persuasively, has never been what we think we see; it is what the powers that be can no longer conceal.” LAALA BECHETOULA, Algerian journalist and writer, author of “The Book of Gaza Hashem: A Testament Written in Olive Wood and Ash“.

        

 

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GENOCIDE IN GAZA: Voices of Global Conscience

GENOCIDE IN GAZA: Voices of Global Conscience

By Ahmet Davutoglu, Richard Falk
March 26, 2024

AVAILABLE NOW DIRECTLY FROM CLARITY PRESS

At a time when neither governments nor international institutions are demonstrating either the will or the capability to act in accord with the rule of law or the popular will of the majority of the peoples of the world who have demonstrated against the genocide in their millions, these substantial essays give an overview of the extraordinary damage wrought and what can and should be done to protect Palestinian rights and construct a future that empowers Palestinians to give content to their right of self-determination rather than victimized by yet another effort to impose a solution from without or enable Israel to control the day after developments when the violence stops.

“This courageous and prophetic book is a call for moral conscience and political vision.” CORNEL WEST, Holder, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary.

This book provides a rare, timely, comprehensive. and accurate account of the harm that has befallen the people of Gaza.It is a stark reminder to all humanity that we dare not neglect the urgent call for all of us to join together in utilising international solidarity to actively promote justice for all.” NALEDI PANDOR, former Foreign Minister, South Africa.

“This book offers a multifaceted argument – through an impressive array of contributors – of what the outrages of the past and present have wrought, and what the future may promise.” WADIE SAID, Professor of Law, University of Colorado

” With great scholarly imagination and political insight, Richard Falk and Ahmet Davutoğu have put together a remarkable collection of writings.”  MAHMOOD MAMDANI, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Columbia University

CONTRIBUTORS
Abdullah Ahsan, Alfred de Zayas, Arlene Clemesha, Avi Shlaim, Basil Farraj, Bilgehan Uçak, Chandra Muzaffar, Craig Mokiber, Ferhan Güloğlu, Francesco Schettino, Grace Spence Green, Hans von Sponeck, Hilal Elver, Irene Gendzier, Izzeldin Abuleish, Javad Zarif, Joseph Camilleri, Juan Cole, Lisa Hajjar, Meymune Topç, Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Penny Green, Phyllis Bennis, Ramzy Baroud, Reza Nasri, Sare Davutoğlu, Sevinç Alkan, Susan Abulhawa, Victoria Brittain, Walden Bello

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