The essays that compose Decade of Deceit: 2002-2012 consider current events in the mid-East from a moral perspective that transcends the immediate moment and forces reflection on concerns that exalt or deny human rights, personal dignity and respect. These are polemical essays, not news stories. Events considered from this perspective have roots that transcend time, roots imbedded in human nature, roots that grow deep in the earth that gave birth to them for it is from ashes we grow and to ashes we return. (Introduction) Cook undertook a major task. His new book is an invaluable contribution to understanding the Israel/Palestinian conflict. His polemical essays are must reading. They explain the longest unresolved conflict of our time and why it matters. (Stephen Lendman, sbcglobal.net) I read your wonderful book , so true so painful, yet beautiful delivery...(Gilad Atzmon, The Wandering Who?)