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An Israeli in Palestine : resisting dispossession, redeeming Israel / Jeff Halper.

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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 exclu...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Halper, Jeff (Author)
Corporate Author: Ṿaʻad ha-Yiśreʼeli neged harisat batim
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : [Jerusalem] : Pluto Press ; in association with ICAHD, 2010.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Palestinian Arabs > West Bank > Social conditions.
Palestinian Arabs > Government policy > Israel.
Wrecking > Political aspects > West Bank.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Jewish-Arab relations.
Israel > Government policy.
Government policy.
Palestinian Arabs > Government policy.
Palestinian Arabs > Social conditions.
Wrecking > Political aspects.
Israel.
West Bank.
Table of 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?
  • Apartheid, warehousing or ...
  • 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. ICAHD's call for BDS.

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