Israeli Politics / Society - reading... The Forgotten Palestinians - Pappé, Ilan. Ilan Pappé.
The War for Palestine. Avi Shlaim. Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations. Avi Shlaim - The Iron Wall. The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians. The Iron Cage. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Palestinian Identity. Rashid Khalidi; With a New Introduction by the Author Paper, 352 pages, ISBN: 978-0-231-15075-0 $27.95 / £19.95 December, 2009 Cloth, 352 pages, ISBN: 978-0-231-15074-3 $80.00 / £55.00 This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood.
Khalidi also casts an eye to the future, noting the strength of Palestinian identity and social solidarity yet wondering whether current trends will lead to Palestinian statehood and independence. Related Subjects About the Author Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. Rashid Khalidi, Columbia faculty. Armed struggle and the search for state : the Palestinian national movement, 1949-1993 - JH Libraries. Yezid Sayigh. Yezid Sayigh is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his work focuses on the Syrian crisis, the political role of Arab armies, security sector transformation in Arab transitions, the reinvention of authoritarianism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process.
Previously, Sayigh was professor of Middle East studies at King’s College London. From 1994–2003, he served as assistant director of studies at the Centre of International Studies, Cambridge. From 1998–2003, he headed the Middle East program of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Sayigh was also an adviser and negotiator in the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks with Israel from 1991–1994. Being Israeli. This penetrating and timely study by two well-known scholars offers a theoretically informed account of the political sociology of Israel.
The argument is set in its historical context as the authors trace Israel's development from the beginning of Zionist settlement in Palestine in the early 1880s to the Oslo accords in 1993, and finally to the recent Palestinian uprising. Against this background, they speculate on the idea of citizenship and what it means to be the citizen of a fragmented and ideologically divided society. "Being Israeli is one of the most important studies on the Zionist-Israeli state building endeavor to have been published internationally for years. " American Journal of Sociology "Broad, sweeping, and insightful... the author's analysis...effectively explores the issues underlying many of Israel's social problems.
"This book is full of rich information and is well organized by an appropriate conceptual scheme. " Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 : Gershon Shafir. Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise.
He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population. Gershon Shafir - Department of Sociology. Land, Labor and the Logic of Zionism: A Critical Engagement with Gershon Shafir. Abstract From roughly the 1930s into the 1970s, labor-Zionist ideology, parties and institutions played a central role in the Zionist movement in Palestine, and then from 1948 in the State of Israel, manifesting one crucial way in which the Zionist project differed from other comparable settler colonial enterprises.
Gershon Shafir’s 1989 book Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 argued forcefully that it was labor Zionism’s encounter with the land and labor markets in late-Ottoman Palestine, rather than abstract ideology, that led it to adopt a strategy based on the exclusion of indigenous Arab labor and economic separatism. This trajectory, he argued, also ultimately conduced to most Zionists’ acceptance of territorial compromise in 1948. Shafir thereby offered a powerful alternative to idealist and romanticised approaches to early Zionism in Palestine.
Lesch, Ann M. and Ian S. Lustick, Editors. 368 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3874-7 | $55.00s | £36.00 | Add to cartPaper 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2052-0 | $26.50s | £17.50 | Add to cartView table of contents and excerpt "A rich resource both for scholars of migration and for anyone interested in the 'predicaments of Palestinians and Jews' because of the way it self-consciously draws parallels between the two peoples' destinies and relation to the same land.
"—Israel Studies Forum Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews is a bold attempt to understand constructively and build upon the terrible irony of two peoples, each with a searing memory of displacement and exile, struggling for a return to a land each remembers, each claims, and from which each has sought to exclude the other. The contributors' work is honest and often as inspiring as it is provocative. Contributors: Elazar Barkan, Michael R. Ann M. Pluto Press - Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel. Palestinian prisoners charged with security-related offences are immediately taken as a threat to Israel's security.
They are seen as potential, if not actual, suicide bombers. This stereotype ignores the political nature of the Palestinian prisoners' actions and their desire for liberty. By highlighting the various images of Palestinian prisoners in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Abeer Baker and Anat Matar chart their changing fortunes. Essays written by prisoners, ex-prisoners, Human rights defenders, lawyers and academic researchers analyse the political nature of imprisonment and Israeli attitudes towards Palestinian prisoners. These contributions deal with the prisoners' status within Palestinian society, the conditions of their imprisonment and various legal procedures used by the Israeli military courts in order to criminalise and de-politicise them. Anat Matar is a senior lecturer of philosophy at Tel Aviv University and a political activist. New book explores Israel’s military legal system. Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel Edited by Abeer Baker and Anat Matar The Israeli military legal system is one of the most under reported yet crucial components of Israel’s system of control over Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Since 1967, Israel has controlled the entire area of the West Bank using two forms of legal enforcement based on two different legal codes – one for Israeli settlers and one for Palestinians. Palestinians are subjected to military law administered by the Israeli army. Far from providing justice for Palestinians, the military legal system functions as a foundational control mechanism over Palestinian life in all realms.
In a new book from Pluto Press, Israeli professor Anat Matar and Palestinian lawyer Abeer Baker edit a collection of informative essays regarding the military justice system and Palestinian prisoners in Israel. You can purchase Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel through Pluto Press. Israel and Settler Society. The Israel-Palestine Conflict. The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has lasted over a century.
James L. Gelvin's account of that conflict, from the first glimmerings of national consciousness among Jews and Ottoman Palestinians to the present, offers a compelling, accessible and up-to-the-moment introduction for students and general readers. The book makes no attempt to be encyclopedic in coverage. It is rather an interpretive, thematically composed essay, set within the framework of global history. Now in a revised edition, Gelvin’s award-winning book takes the reader through the 2006 Summer War and its aftermath. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War James L. Gelvin Cambridge University Press, 2005, 312pp., $65.00 (paper, $22.99) UCLA - James Gelvin. The Roadmap to Nowhere - Reinhart. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History. Comrades and Enemies : Zachary Lockman. 3 Books on Pre-1948 Palestine, Its Invention, Un-Invention, and Re-Invention.
A view from the sea at Jaffa looking east onto the city, 1898-1914. (Matson Collection) From Electronic Intifada. When then-US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich referred to “an invented Palestinian people,” surely he meant to un-invent them: Who? Whah? Home? Dignity? Rebuttals were various. Palestine has long been in people’s stories. Lybarger, L.: Identity and Religion in Palestine: The Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories.