Intifada: The Long Day of Rage - Softcover

David Pratt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904684165 ISBN 13: 9781904684169

Publisher: Casemate, 2006

Synopsis

The Long Day of Rage [Paperback] David Pratt

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About the Author

David Pratt has been a foreign correspondent and photojournalist specialising in the Middle East, Arab and Islamic world for more than twenty years. He has worked for Reuters, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), and is a regular contributor to the BBC on conflict and foreign affairs issues. During an adventurous career, Pratt has covered wars across the Middle East and Africa, including Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Congo, Sudan and Somalia, and has twice been a finalist in the Amnesty International Media Awards for his reporting on human rights issues. In Afghanistan in 1989 he had the dubious pleasure of having tea and a chat with Osama bin Laden during a lull in fighting around the city of Jalalabad. David Pratt is currently the Foreign Editor of the Sunday Herald.

Review

"This is eyewitness reporting at its best--clear,well-observed, fair. Read it, and you'll understand why most of what you read about Israel and the Palestinians is nonsense." -- --CHARLES GLASS, former ABC News Chief Mideast Correspondent, and author of The Tribes Triumphant and The Northern Front

"This is eyewitness reporting at its best-clear, well observed, fair. Read it, and you'll understand why most of what you read about Israel and the Palestinians is nonsense." -- Charles Glass former ABC News Chief Mideast Correspondent

"...With heart-stopping accuracy and literary GENIUS, Pratt makes his readers think and feel as if they too were there during every single moment of every bloody event. Amazing.... Buy this book. Read it and weep. And then work in whatever way you can to stop the escalation of violence and war. " -- By Jane Stillwater jpstillwater.blogspot.com

"I met Pratt when I was in Baghdad... I was impressed. This is a journalist who goes out on the front lines and risks his life to bring us back the news. "Nothing is neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," wrote Pratt. "If there is one thing as a journalist I've learned during the almost 20 years of covering this story, it's the impossibility of ducking the political flack and sometimes downright vitriol that inevitably comes the way of anyone writing about this emotive issue." But Pratt really tries to get beyond the vitriol in this book -- and he succeeds."

"This book will be an eye-opener for many readers, Americans in particular. Written by a correspondent on the scene in the Mideast the past 20 years, it unveils a longstanding lapse in the Western concept of justice. Here we learn intimate details of a gallant people who have withstood both foreign occupation and domestic desperation, yet whose aspirations to national dignity will doubtless never be quelled." -- Jane Stillwater OPEDNEWS.com 6-4-07

"This book will be an eye-opener for many readers, Americans in particular. Written by a correspondent on the scene in the Mideast the past 20 years, it unveils a longstanding lapse in the Western concept of justice. Here we learn intimate details of a gallant people who have withstood both foreign occupation and domestic desperation, yet whose aspirations to national dignity will doubtless never be quelled." -- --STEPHEN TANNER, author of Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban

I met Pratt when I was in Baghdad... I was impressed. This is a journalist who goes out on the front lines and risks his life to bring us back the news. "Nothing is neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," wrote Pratt. "If there is one thing as a journalist I've learned during the almost 20 years of covering this story, it's the impossibility of ducking the political flack and sometimes downright vitriol that inevitably comes the way of anyone writing about this emotive issue." But Pratt really tries to get beyond the vitriol in this book -- and he succeeds. -- Jane Stillwater OPEDNEWS.com 6-4-07

Edition details

• Publisher: Casemate
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904684165
• ISBN 13: 9781904684169
• Binding: Paperback