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In ‘Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair’, published by Zed Books in autumn 2008, Cook examines the enduring themes of Zionist colonisation of Palestine. He argues that Israel has developed and refined policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the Palestinian people in a relentless effort to destroy them as a nation. The West Bank and Gaza have been transformed into laboratories for testing the infrastructure of confinement, creating a lucrative 'defence' industry by pioneering technologies for crowd control, surveillance, collective punishment and urban warfare. The goal of these ever more sophisticated systems of curfews, checkpoints, walls, permits and land grabs is the disappearance of Palestine.

Who is Jonathan Cook?

Jonathan Cook (born in 1965 in Buckinghamshire, England) is a British freelance journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, who has published in The Guardian, The Observer, ZNet, Electronic Intifada, CounterPunch, Al Jazeera and Information Clearing House. He authored the book Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State.

He states that as a freelance journalist and as the "first foreign correspondent to be based in the Israeli Arab city of Nazareth, in the Galilee", he has a unique perspective unavailable to Western journalists based in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv in Israel, or Ramallah in the West Bank.

Cook has written in the Guardian newspaper in Britain that there was "a relentless campaign to target, discredit and silence critics of Israel