France, Alternative Libertaire AL #233 - Read: Pierre Stambul, Refusing to be an accomplice to the commitment

The book of our friend AL, Pierre Stambul is a real keypad 500 pages. However, this is an 
exceptional autobiography for all those who are interested or are passionate about the 
Israeli-Palestinian issue. His work relates to the history of relations between Jews and 
Israelis, Zionism and Zionism, Israel and Palestine, the people of the Middle East and 
their feudal regimes. ---- Pierre Stambul is from the "harem" Jewish. In this perception 
of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as his involvement in the French Jewish Union 
for Peace, Zionist organization whose majority of members are of Jewish origin, carries a 
progressive point of view without concession or guilt. He faces the Jewish communal spirit 
maintained by the Zionist policy of the State of Israel and representative institutions 
that support in the diaspora.

The first chapter of his own family history and the reasons for his commitment to the 
Palestinian cause. It is a mirror to the commitment of activists and Jewish activists 
whose parents were involved in progressive movements for everything except for Israel. In 
explaining his career, Peter is certainly discover many readers of this book a flaw in the 
supposedly unanimous loyalty to the Jewish State of Israel. Further, his approach critics 
of the Jewish religion and to point out contradictions reveals a distancing from it.

But above all, Peter retraces a complete geopolitical world of modern history of the 
Middle East through the eyes of an anti-Zionist activist with Jewish origins.

This book, which may seem tedious at first and sometimes feeds repetitions is not reading 
one piece. Readers should seek to find the chapters of particular interest. Based on this 
principle, it must find all the elements of analysis that will help build or strengthen an 
anti-Zionist approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jean Marc Izrine (AL Toulouse)

Pierre Stambul, Refusing to be an accomplice to the commitment , Acratie Editions, 2012, 
600 p., 25 euros.