Synopsis
This work untangles the intricacies of the US-Israeli-Palestinian relationship. Sixteen years after its first publication, Chomsky has revised and updated this corrosive study, hailed as a defining work on modern US foreign policy in the Middle East, to cover the significant developments of the 1980s and 1990s. Examining America's search for a "reliable ally" in the Middle East and beyond, in a determined effort to ensure American control of oil in the Arabian peninsula, Chomsky lays bare the contortions, lies and misinformation that have been used over the years to obscure the real agenda. In the process he reveals the extent to which modern nation-states make claims for peace while actively pursuing very different objectives. This updated edition aims to provide a corrective to the mythmaking that has obscured the real history of "peace" negotiations in the Middle East.

From the Back Cover
This is the long-awaited new edition of one of Chomsky's landmark works first publishedin 1983. Fateful Triangle is a timely and much-needed corrective to the mythmaking that has obscured the real history of 'peace' negotiations in the Middle East. This edition includes a New Foreword by Edward Said.

'A major, timely and devastating analysis of one of the great tragedies.' Fred Halliday, Tribune

'Formidable.' The Jewish Quarterly

'Brilliant and unscrupulous.' Observer

Naom Chomsky is a world renowned linguist and one of America's foremost social critics. He is also Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include Powers and Prospects and Class Warfare (both published by Pluto Press).