Blowing Up Everything Is Beautiful
Israel's Extermination of Gaza
Published on 29. April 2025
216 pages
978-1-64821-156-0 (ISBN)
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THEY TOLD YOU WHAT THEY WERE DOING WHILE THEY DID IT
"Blow up and flatten everything . . ." These chilling words, said by Amichai Eliyahu, a minister in the Israeli government, have been a message to the world and the people of Gaza: destroying everything-homes, businesses, lives-is justified. Even beautiful.
For fifteen months and in full view of the world, the state of Israel trapped more than two million people in a tiny strip of land and unleashed vengeance on them. The Palestinians endured a nightmare-bombed from the air, targeted by soldiers, their hospitals destroyed-and, as they are cut off from the rest of the world, the nightmare continues.
Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful is a searing indictment of the brutality and atrocities inflicted on the Palestinians of Gaza and the collaboration of powerful nations in their murder. With forensic detail and the forceful arguments of a prosecutor, James Robins details how the ongoing attempt to annihilate Gaza became the major crime of our age-and a turning point.
What happens when the moral regime of international law and human rights that protect the oppressed fails? Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful reveals a bold, radical, and independent new voice that offers a powerful reminder: all crimes cry out for justice, and if that justice fails, the crimes will no doubt happen again.
"Blow up and flatten everything . . ." These chilling words, said by Amichai Eliyahu, a minister in the Israeli government, have been a message to the world and the people of Gaza: destroying everything-homes, businesses, lives-is justified. Even beautiful.
For fifteen months and in full view of the world, the state of Israel trapped more than two million people in a tiny strip of land and unleashed vengeance on them. The Palestinians endured a nightmare-bombed from the air, targeted by soldiers, their hospitals destroyed-and, as they are cut off from the rest of the world, the nightmare continues.
Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful is a searing indictment of the brutality and atrocities inflicted on the Palestinians of Gaza and the collaboration of powerful nations in their murder. With forensic detail and the forceful arguments of a prosecutor, James Robins details how the ongoing attempt to annihilate Gaza became the major crime of our age-and a turning point.
What happens when the moral regime of international law and human rights that protect the oppressed fails? Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful reveals a bold, radical, and independent new voice that offers a powerful reminder: all crimes cry out for justice, and if that justice fails, the crimes will no doubt happen again.
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James Robins is an award-winning independent journalist and historian. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The Guardian, The Spectator, and the TLS among other news outlets. He writes the newsletter The Dreadnought and lives in London.
