"The Monstrosity of Our Century is a deeply informed and meticulously researched work by a brilliant Arab intellectual familiar with both the Western and Islamic scholarly traditions. Uniquely, it draws on both traditions to dissect the factors that made both the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance movements inevitable and Western support for the genocidal reaction of the Israelis to this predictable. The author, Amir Nour eloquently and unflinchingly shows how the course of events in Palestine has discredited the moral authority of the West and devalued international law, while changing the world order and isolating Israel, making its survival increasingly doubtful."
——FORMER AMBASSADOR CHAS W. FREEMAN

"A bold and refreshing critique of Western imperialism, centered on Israel's settler colonialism in Palestine and its genocidal war on Gaza, Amir Nour's book challenges many erroneous notions about the roots of global conflict, the binary narrative of the "war on terror," and the dangerous "us vs. them" mentality espoused by Washington and its Western allies. By situating the Israeli war on the Palestinian people within a global context, Nour helps liberate the history of the so-called "conflict" from the provisional, often short-sighted approach to history. Additionally, the book brilliantly demonstrates the need for an alternative form of history ―one that shifts from the ethno-centric, dominant Western approach to a more equitable "global history." Strongly needed and highly recommended."
——DR. RAMZY BAROUD, Author of My Father Was a Freedom Fighter and The Last Earth

"Today more than ever, Arabs and Muslims must become aware of the terrible maneuvers and plots being hatched against them by lighting the fires of discord and sedition among the members of the Ummah, between Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Kurds, Arabs and Berbers and Muslims and Christians. Proof of this are the turpitudes suffered by the central cause of the Arabs and Muslims, that of plundered Palestine. I highly recommend reading Amir Nour's book because of the judicious choice of carefully documented writings by authoritative authors and studies, the sagacity of the analysis and the clairvoyance of the foresight."
——DR. AHMED TALEB-IBRAHIMI, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria (1982-1988)

The Monstrosity of Our Century: The War on Palestine and the Last Western Man by Amir Nour provides a comprehensive tour from Israel’s massive offensive against Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran, to a projection of the grand transformation of the world that this is bringing into being after more than three centuries of complete Western domination.

Addressing the crimes of starvation and genocide that UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese termed "the monstrosity of our century," Nour documents the historical events that set the stage for this tragedy, implicating the West for its decisive contribution to conditions of apartheid and the open-air prison that all but made the October 7th, 2023, attack on Israel inevitable and Israel’s genocidal reaction predictable.

The October 7th attack on Israel was a feat of no small moment, described by military analyst Scott Ritter as “not a terrorist attack»., in fact the “most successful military raid of this century». The claims by Israel and Western media of beheaded or burned babies and mass rapes are debunked.

Disputing the Israeli state’s claims to act on behalf of world Jewry, Nour asks:

Who are “the Jews”? He addresses the many hotly conflicting and contradictory secular and Judaic components. both within Israel and in the diaspora.

Who were the historical instigators of the Zionist project, long before the Jews? Nour enumerates the historical markers of Christian Zionist engagement.

What prevents antisemitism and anti-Zionism from even being discussed and what can happen when its narrative is challenged?

Nour foresees that a process of de-Westernization is dawning. While the West’s triumphal unipolar moment at the fall of the Soviet Union led to Francis Fukuyama’s claims of The End of History and the Last Man and the global establishment of liberal democracy, in actuality the wrenching transition from a hegemonic world order now underway is progressively leading not just to the abandonment of democratic values by those countries who pursued its ascendancy, but a global repugnance at their flagrant complicity in genocide.

The war on Palestine is providing a more convincing depiction of the trajectory of human civilization, more precisely of the destiny of the “Last Man,” in actuality the last Western man, whose spiritual nihilism, lack of empathy, and unbridled will to power may lead the world to destruction.

Amir Nour is an Algerian researcher in international relations and a Research Associate of the Canada-based Centre for Research on Globalization. He specializes in the relationship between the West and the Arab-Muslim world throughout history. He is the author of 3 books including 2 in French language: "L’Orient et l’Occident à l’heure d’un nouveau Sykes-Picot” (The Orient and the Occident in Time of a New Sykes-Picot) Editions Alem El Afkar, Algiers, 2014, and “L’Islam et l’ordre du monde” (Islam and the Order of the World), Editions Alem El Afkar, Algiers, 2021.