The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the world’s most polarizing confrontations. Its current phase, Israel’s “temporary” occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, turned a half century old in June 2017. In these timely and provocative essays, Gershon Shafir asks three questions—What is the occupation, why has it lasted so long, and how has it transformed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? His cogent answers illuminate how we got here, what here is, and where we are likely to go. Shafir expertly demonstrates that at its fiftieth year, the occupation is riven with paradoxes, legal inconsistencies, and conflicting interests that weaken the occupiers’ hold and leave the occupation itself vulnerable to challenge. List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. What Is the Occupation? 2. Why Has the Occupation Lasted This Long? 3. How Has the Occupation Transformed the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Appendix: List of Israeli Prime Ministers, PLO Chairmen, and Palestinian National Authority Presidents and Prime Ministers Notes Bibliography Index
A Half Century of Occupation - Israel, Palestine, and the World's Most Intractable Conflict
Gershon Shafir
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
2017
296 páginas
9h 52m
ISBN-13: 9780520293502
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Gershon Shafir
Gershon Shafir received his B.A.s in Economics, Political Science, and Sociology from Tel Aviv University, his M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the Director of the UCSD Human Rights Minor. His co-authored Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenships, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, which won the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award for best book on the Middle East in 2002. Struggle and Survival in Israel and Palestine, an anthology of 25 life histories which he co-edited with Mark Levine, was published by UC Press in 2012. Lessons and Legacies of the 'War on Terror' From Moral Panic topermanent War, co-edited with Everard Meade & William J. Aceves was published by Routledge. He is currently at work on Israel’s settlement policy and international humanitarian law from 1967 to the present. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the British Journal of Sociology, theInternational Journal of Middle East Studies, Theory and Society, etc. His major area of interest is comparative and historical sociology, with emphases on nationalism, ethnicity, citizenship and human rights.
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