Lisa Bhungalia

“From the American People”: Sketches of the US National Security State in Palestine

“While government sights are set on ‘the enemy,’ ours might be set on them and on how this rush to the intimate structures new sites of imperial governance.” – Ann Stoler[1] “We have to squeeze these guys.” – Senior State Department official in the wake of the 2006 Hamas parliamentary victory.”[2] In tracing the historical circuits through which techniques of colonial management have been tested and transmitted, Laleh Khalili has underscored Palestine’s centrality in ...