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A history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad : faith, awareness, and revolution in the Middle East
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ISBN: 1108957684 1108954448 1108845061 110895748X 9781108954440 9781108845069 9781108949460 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions, both in terms of its history and ideology. Labelled a terrorist organization by the US and the EU, it has grown to become the second largest armed movement in the Gaza Strip and the third largest in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Using a wealth of primary sources, this book traces the history of PIJ from its origins in the early 1980s to today. By looking at how the group was established, how it has developed in theory and practice, and how it understands religion and politics, Skare seeks to answer the key question of why the PIJ still exist despite the presence of its more powerful sister movement Hamas. In doing so, he fills an important empirical gap in the literature on Palestinian Islamism.


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Israel's regime untangled : between democracy and apartheid
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ISBN: 1108951376 1108960650 1108845258 1108960421 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Israel attracts enormous attention among scholars, journalists, politicians, and the general public. Some regard the country as an apartheid regime that can only be challenged through boycotts and sanctions. Others believe it is a stable liberal democracy, created under extreme conditions. This book seeks to unravel these conflicting interpretations by focusing on three questions: How can the Israeli regime be classified? What are the borders of the Israeli regime? And what are the key factors that shape the regime and support its relative stability? Gal Ariely calls for an approach which disaggregates democracy into specific dimensions, examining the diverse aspects of the Israeli regime to determine the level of 'democraticness' exhibited rather than classifying the regime as a whole. In doing so he provides a comprehensive account of the Israeli regime, untangling conflicting interpretations and illustrates the advantages of using this approach for analysing disputed regimes more widely.


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Problematizing law, rights, and childhood in Israel/Palestine
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ISBN: 1009019848 1009027417 1316519996 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this book, Hedi Viterbo radically challenges our picture of law, human rights, and childhood, both in and beyond the Israel/Palestine context. He reveals how Israel, rather than disregarding international law and children's rights, has used them to hone and legitimize its violence against Palestinians. He exposes the human rights community's complicity in this situation, due to its problematic assumptions about childhood, its uncritical embrace of international law, and its recurring emulation of Israel's security discourse. He examines how, and to what effect, both the state and its critics manufacture, shape, and weaponize the categories 'child' and 'adult.' Bridging disciplinary divides, Viterbo analyzes hundreds of previously unexamined sources, many of which are not publicly available. Bold, sophisticated, and informative, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine provides unique insights into the ever-tightening relationship between law, children's rights, and state violence, at both the local and global levels.


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Reclaiming humanity in Palestinian hunger strikes : revolutionary subjectivity and decolonizing the body
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ISBN: 3030881997 3030881989 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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Whose Holy Land? : the roots of the conflict between Jews and Arabs
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ISBN: 9783030742867 3030742865 3030742857 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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This book explains the historical roots of the conflict between Jews and Arabs, which has lost none of its explosiveness to the present day, in a comprehensive and easy-to-understand manner. The question of who owns the Holy Land is more relevant today than ever. The debates on this topic are often characterized by ignorance and strong emotions, while partiality and power interests still obscure the view on the political situation in the Middle East. Shaking up old myths and prejudices, this book presents an overall historical as well as political analysis of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim structures, actors, and actions from the very beginning to this very day, as well as a topical analysis. It combines history with theology and political science. Thus, the book is a must-read for scholars and students of political science, history, and international relations, as well as policy-makers, interested in a better understanding of the historical background and current political situation in the Middle East.


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Dear Palestine
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ISBN: 1503627667 9781503627666 9781503614659 9781503627659 Year: 2021 Publisher: Stanford, California

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In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab Liberation Army. With this book, the young men and women who made up these armies come to life through their letters home, writing about everything from daily life to nationalism, colonialism, race, and the character of their enemies. Shay Hazkani offers a new history of the 1948 War through these letters, focusing on the people caught up in the conflict and its transnational reverberations. Dear Palestine also examines how the architects of the conflict worked to influence and indoctrinate key ideologies in these ordinary soldiers, by examining battle orders, pamphlets, army magazines, and radio broadcasts. Through two narratives-the official and unofficial, the propaganda and the personal letters-Dear Palestine reveals the fissures between sanctioned nationalism and individual identity. This book reminds us that everyday people's fear, bravery, arrogance, cruelty, lies, and exaggerations are as important in history as the preoccupations of the elites.


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The Joshua generation : Israeli occupation and the Bible
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ISBN: 0691201498 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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No biblical text has been more central to the politics of modern Israel than the Book of Joshua. Named after a military leader who became the successor to Moses, it depicts the march of the ancient Israelites into Canaan, describing how they subjugated and massacred the indigenous peoples. This book examines the book's centrality to the Israeli occupation today, revealing why nationalist longing and social reality are tragically out of sync in the Promised Land.


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The challenges of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute : an impossible peace?
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ISBN: 3030631850 3030631842 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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‘Balanced and cogently argued, this important and original book should be read by anyone who wants to better understand the Palestinian–Israeli conflict and why it remains so intractable. Even when I disagree with Bren Carlill, I find his ideas compelling.’ —Yossi Klein Halevi, Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, and author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor This book explains why the Israeli–Palestinian dispute is so difficult to resolve by showing that it consists of multiple distinct conflicts. Because these tend to be conflated into a single conflict, attempts at peace have not worked. Underpinned by conflict theory, observations of those involved and analyses of polling data, the book argues that peace will not be possible until each of the dispute’s distinct conflicts are managed. Early chapters establish a theoretical framework to explain and define the different conflicts. This framework is then applied to the history of the dispute. The actions and perceptions of Israelis and Palestinians make sense when viewed through this framework. The Oslo peace process is examined in detail to explain how and why each side’s expectations were not met. Ultimately, lessons in ways to build a future viable peace are drawn from the failures of the past. Bren Carlill has spent over 20 years professionally or academically focused on the Israeli–Palestinian dispute, including living in Israel for several years. He has also worked in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Department of Home Affairs, where he focused on the civil and human rights conditions and the security situations of various Middle East and South Asian countries. .


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A tale of two narratives : the Holocaust, the Nakba, and the Israeli-Palestinian battle of memories
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ISBN: 1108885438 1108882382 1108840280 1108890210 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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The Holocaust and the Nakba are foundational traumas in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian societies and form key parts of each respective collective identity. This book offers a parallel analysis of the transmission of these foundational pasts in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian societies by exploring how the Holocaust and the Nakba have been narrated since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords. The work exposes the existence and perpetuation of ethnocentric victimhood narratives that serve as the theoretical foundations for an ensuing minimization - or even denial - of the other's past. Three established realms of societal memory transmission provide the analytical framework for this study: official state education, commemorative acts, and mass mediation. Through this analysis, the work demonstrates the interrelated nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the contextualization of the primary historical events, while also highlighting the universal malleability of mnemonic practices.


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The Israeli economy : a story of success and costs
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ISBN: 9780691229706 9780691199450 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the presentIn 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a population of nine million and is one of the richest countries in the world. The Israeli Economy tells the story of this remarkable transformation, shedding critical new light on Israel's rapid economic growth.Joseph Zeira takes readers from those early days to today, describing how Israel's economic development occurred amid intense fighting with the Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries. He reveals how the new state's astonishing growth continued into the early 1970s, and traces this growth to public investment in education and to large foreign transfers. Zeira analyzes the costs of the Arab-Israeli conflict, demonstrating how economic output could be vastly greater with a comprehensive peace. He discusses how Israel went through intensive neoliberal economic policies in recent decades, and shows how these policies not only failed to enhance economic performance, but led to significant social inequality.Based on more than two decades of groundbreaking research, The Israeli Economy is an in-depth survey of a modern economy that has experienced rapid growth, wars, immigration waves, and other significant shocks. It thus offers important lessons for nations around the world.

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Economic conditions. Economic development --- Economic geography --- Israel --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. --- Economic conditions. --- Dawlat Isrāʼīl --- Država Izrael --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Izrailʹ --- Gosudarstvo Izrailʹ --- I-se-lieh --- Israele --- Isrāʼīl --- Isŭrael --- Isuraeru --- Izrael --- Izrailʹ --- Medinat Israel --- Medinat Yiśraʼel --- Stát Izrael --- State of Israel --- Yiselie --- Yiśraʼel --- Ισραήλ --- Израиль --- Государство Израиль --- Дзяржава Ізраіль --- Ізраіль --- מדינת ישראל --- ישראל --- إسرائيل --- دولة إسرائيل --- イスラエル --- 以色列 --- Palestine --- Economic history. --- Neoliberalism --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Economic aspects --- 1948 Palestinian exodus. --- 1982 Lebanon War. --- Aliyah. --- Arab citizens of Israel. --- Arabs. --- Arab–Israeli conflict. --- Balance of trade. --- Balfour Declaration. --- Beirut. --- Berl Katznelson. --- Business cycle. --- Centre-right politics. --- Chapter 9. --- David Ben-Gurion. --- Demographics of Israel. --- Demography. --- Developed country. --- Economic growth. --- Economic inequality. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Economy of Israel. --- Economy. --- Education. --- Employment. --- Expense. --- Fifth Aliyah. --- First Aliyah. --- First Intifada. --- Fourth Aliyah. --- Golan Heights. --- Great Famine (Ireland). --- Gulf War. --- Hamas. --- Hashomer Hatzair. --- Hebrew University of Jerusalem. --- Histadrut. --- Hovevei Zion. --- Illegal immigration. --- Immigration Act of 1924. --- Immigration. --- Inflation tax. --- Institution. --- Intifada. --- Invasion of Kuwait. --- Israel. --- Israeli Declaration of Independence. --- Israelis. --- Israeli–Palestinian conflict. --- Jerusalem. --- Jewish Agency for Israel. --- Jews. --- Labour movement. --- Lebanese Civil War. --- Lecture. --- Mandatory Palestine. --- Market failure. --- Mizrahi Jews. --- Moshav. --- Muslim world. --- Neoliberalism. --- New Nation (United States). --- Old Yishuv. --- Opportunity cost. --- Palestine Liberation Organization. --- Palestinian National Authority. --- Palestinian refugees. --- Palestinian territories. --- Palestinians. --- Petah Tikva. --- Poalei Agudat Yisrael. --- Privatization. --- Public Agenda. --- Public expenditure. --- Recession. --- Refugee. --- Rhetoric. --- Rosh Pinna. --- Safed. --- Salah. --- Second Aliyah. --- Sephardi Jews. --- Sinai Peninsula. --- Six-Day War. --- Social order. --- Statism. --- Suez Crisis. --- Supranational union. --- Tel Aviv. --- The Other Hand. --- Trade agreement. --- Trade union. --- Trade-off. --- Unemployment. --- War of Attrition. --- White Paper of 1939. --- Yishuv. --- Yom Kippur War. --- Zionism.

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