Tariq Ali and Rashid Khalidi sat down in the Verso office in New York to discuss the state of the crisis in Palestine and their new book on the subject, The Neck and the Sword – available now as part of Verso's Palestine Pamphlets series.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51