Israel's occupation [electronic resource] / Neve Gordon.

ISBN:

9780520942363

9780520255302

9780520255319

Title:

Israel's occupation [electronic resource] / Neve Gordon.

Author:

Gordon, Neve, 1965-

Personal Author:

Gordon, Neve, 1965-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

The infrastructure of control -- The invisible occupation -- Of horses and riders -- Identification trouble -- Civilian control -- The Intifada -- Outsourcing the occupation -- The separation principle.

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Subject Term:

Arab-Israeli conflict -- Occupied territories.

Jews -- Colonization -- Government policy -- West Bank.

Jews -- Colonization -- Government policy -- Gaza Strip.

Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government.

Military occupation -- Social aspects -- West Bank.

Military occupation -- Social aspects -- Gaza Strip.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Geographic Term:

Israel -- Politics and government -- 1993-

West Bank -- Politics and government.

Gaza Strip -- Politics and government.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2008

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Summary

This first complete history of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip allows us to see beyond the smoke screen of politics in order to make sense of the dramatic changes that have developed on the ground over the past forty years. Looking at a wide range of topics, from control of water and electricity to health care and education as well as surveillance and torture, Neve Gordon's panoramic account reveals a fundamental shift from a politics of life--when, for instance, Israel helped Palestinians plant more than six-hundred thousand trees in Gaza and provided farmers with improved varieties of seeds--to a macabre politics characterized by an increasing number of deaths. Drawing attention to the interactions, excesses, and contradictions created by the forms of control used in the Occupied Territories, Gordon argues that the occupation's very structure, rather than the policy choices of the Israeli government or the actions of various Palestinian political factions, has led to this radical shift.

Author Notes

Gordon Neve :

Neve Gordon is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is coeditor of Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics, and the Case of Israel, editor of From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, and a regular contributor to publications including The Nation, In These Times, and the National Catholic Reporter.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Applying the work of Michel Foucault to the contemporary Middle East, this highly theoretical book examines the "means of control used to manage" the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Gordon, a professor of politics at Ben-Gurion University, begins by exploring the diffuse mechanisms of power--in the political, civilian, geographical and economic arenas--used to normalize the occupation in its first years, making the ostensibly temporary occupation permanent. Later chapters take a more specific historical approach, examining a series of events that radically transformed these power structures: the first intifada, the Oslo Accords and the second intifada, which, the author argues, required a reorganization of Israeli power in the Occupied Territories, leading to the disregard of the Palestinians inhabiting those territories. Gordon focuses on the treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and writes for a decidedly scholarly audience; as a result, the book's usefulness beyond academics will likely be limited. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Choice Review

This is probably the most comprehensive record of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It provides a chronicle of the Israeli occupation from 1967 to the present. Gordon (Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel) specializes in the affairs of the West Bank and Gaza. He is critical of the occupation, but chooses to not link the Zionist project with the occupation of 1967. Moreover, he avoids humanizing Palestinian victims of the occupation and favorably characterizes the early economic policies of the occupation. Surprisingly, Gordon rarely consults the many Arabic books that have been written by Palestinians about the occupation--as if the victims are not allowed to speak, or what they have to say is suspect. Gordon makes the following point several times: "Also worth noting is that the number of Palestinians who have been killed is relatively small in comparison with those killed during other military occupations" (p. xviii). This argument is weak but consistent with his separation of the West Bank and Gaza from everything else. Israeli subjugation of the West Bank and Gaza relied on killing Palestinians in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and elsewhere. A comprehensive and informative account of the occupation that lacks critical contextualization. Summing Up: Recommended. General and undergraduate readers. A. AbuKhalil California State University, Stanislaus