| Description |
xi, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction: Getting it and going there -- pt. 1. Comprehending oppression. The making of a critical Israeli -- The message of the bulldozers -- pt. 2. The sources of oppression. The impossible dream: constructing a Jewish ethnocracy in Palestine -- Dispossession (Nishul): ethnocracy's handmaiden -- The narrative of Exodus -- pt. 3. The structure of oppression. Expanding dispossession: the occupation and the matrix of control -- Concluding dispossession: Oslo and unilateral separation -- pt. 4. Overcoming oppression. Redeeming Israel -- What about terrorism? -- Where do we go from here? -- Appendices. 1. House demolitions in the Occupied Territories since 1967 -- 2. The road map and Israel's 14 reservations -- 3. Letter from US President George W. Bush to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon -- 4. The case for sanctions against Israel: ICAHD's position on boycott, divestment and sanctions |
| Summary |
Israeli anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper throws a harsh light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of a critical insider. While the Zionist founders of Israel created a vibrant society, culture and economy, they did so at a high price: Israel could not maintain its exclusive Jewish character without imposing on the country's Palestinian population policies of ethnic cleansing, occupation and discrimination, expressed most graphically in its ongoing demolition of thousands of Palestinian homes, both inside Israel and in the Occupied Territories |
| Notes |
"The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-304) and index |
| Subject |
Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Jewish-Arab relations.
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Palestinian Arabs -- Government policy -- Israel.
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Palestinian Arabs -- West Bank -- Social conditions.
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Wrecking -- Political aspects -- West Bank.
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Israel -- Government policy.
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| Author |
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
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| LC no. |
2008299237 |
| ISBN |
0745322263 (paperback) |
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0745322271 (hardback) |
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9780745322261 (paperback) |
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9780745322278 (hardback) |
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