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Israel's stake in what takes place in Syria stems from geographic proximity, the ongoing official state of war between the two countries, Syria's demands to recover the Golan, and Israel's fear that events in Syria could lead to the collapse of the ceasefire between the two countries and/or a re-heating of the Golan front. Israel's interest is also due to Syria's important influence, role and stature in the Arab world and the broader Middle East region— all of which have implications for Israel, its security, and its regional relations. One permanent Israeli concern regards the fate of Syria's arsenal, especially missiles and non-conventional arms. Israel fears ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination, and Democracy
Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. London: Pluto Press and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Ben White (BW): I wanted to write something that would accessibly describe the policies of segregation and discrimination that Palestinian citizens in Israel have experienced since 1948. Many people—even those who are engaged with Palestine/Israel to some extent—are unaware of the ways in which the Palestinian minority has been systematically marginalized in ways that go far beyond the “complaints of inequality” that surface in mainstream media on occasion. This is more than popular ...
Keep Reading »The Israeli Supreme Court's Decision in the Citizenship Law Case HCJ 466/07, MK Zahava Galon v. The Attorney General, et al.
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Raneen, a thirty-six-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, is married to thirty-nine-year-old Hatem, a Palestinian from the West Bank. They have been living together in the north of Israel since getting married in 1999, and have three children. They lead a normal family life, with one glaring exception: Hatem has only a temporary residency permit that allows him to stay in Israel for one year. The Interior Ministry has total discretion over whether or not to issue and renew his permit. When Hatem’s current permit expires, he may not be granted another. In such a case, he may be forced to separate from his family. This is the harsh reality created by Israel’s ...
Keep Reading »In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material Afterlife in Post-Oslo Palestine
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A strange and unexpected kind of waste fell across my path as I set out to research what I had neatly packaged for myself as “the politics of waste management in the West Bank.” It was late 2009 when an American friend introduced me to it on one of my first days in Jenin. “Oh, you are interested in trash? You’ll love this place, it is full of it!” And we were off. What struck me most when we finally made our way through an orgy of fresh fruits and vegetables, sold-off stands and carts in Jenin’s hisba market, was the scene of what my friend called the toilet bowl graveyard: rows and rows of porcelain bowls, no seats, out on the open concrete. Most were white, a couple ...
Keep Reading »Alleged Investigation: The Failure of Investigations into Offenses Committed by IDF Soldiers Against Palestinians
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[The following is the latest from Yesh Din on investigations into IDF offenses against Palestinians.] Alleged Investigation: The Failure of Investigations into Offenses Committed by IDF Soldiers Against Palestinians PRINCIPAL FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Only three and half percent of complaints received by the Military Police Criminal Investigations Unit (MPCID) and the Military Advocate General’s Corps (MAGC) of criminal offenses allegedly committed by soldiers against Palestinian civilians and their property in the West Bank ultimately lead to indictments. In other words, a complaint made to the military law enforcement bodies of ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation
Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (1989). New Edition. New York and London: I. B. Tauris, 2010 [When Ella Shohat’s book Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation was first published in 1989, Edward Said wrote: “Shohat's Israeli Cinema is a tour-de-force. Not only is it theoretically sophisticated, it is also deeply rooted in the changing politics and perceptions of the Israeli predicament as they bear upon Israeli films. With brilliant humanistic insight, Shohat describes the underlying ideological myths and allegorical structures and contributes significantly to a new, enlarged understanding of the dynamics ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: Israel's New Detention Law Violates Rights of Asylum-Seekers
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[The following press release was issued by Amnesty International on 11 January 2012.] A new Israeli law allowing for automatic and lengthy detention of asylum-seekers is an affront to international law, Amnesty International said today. Early on Tuesday the Israeli parliament passed the “Prevention of Infiltration Law”, which mandates the automatic detention of anyone, including asylum-seekers, who enters Israel without permission. It is aimed at those entering via the Egyptian border. The law allows for all such detainees to be held without charge or trial for three or more years. People from countries considered “hostile” to Israel, including ...
Keep Reading »Lawfare and Targeted Killing: Developments in the Israeli and US Contexts
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Over the last decade, the term lawfare, an amalgamation of “law” and “warfare,” has been adopted and popularized among people engaged in monitoring, judging and debating the legality of a state’s wartime behavior vis-à-vis enemies on and off the battlefield. Today, the dominant theme in debates about lawfare turns on the contested legitimacy of litigation to challenge military and security policies and practices; and efforts to sue or prosecute state agents, government-funded contractors, and corporations who are alleged to have engaged in or abetted serious violations of law in the conduct of war. While some people (myself included) attach a positive connotation to the ...
Keep Reading »14 January 2009 - Muhammed Mousa
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[The following is narrative eighteen, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “We would stay up late at night talking with each other about what had happened over the day, we were brothers, if ever I needed anything I could go to them and they would help me out.” On 14 January 2009, at approximately 21:00, Israeli aircraft targeted the Mousa family home near al Sabra pharmacy in the south of Gaza City. Izz Addin Wahid ...
Keep Reading »هوَجٌ يخدم الصهيونية
حين دعا نائب رئيس حكومة إسرائيل لهجرة اليهود التوانسة أجابه رئيسهم: لا دخل لأيّ أجنبي في الشؤون التونسية، نحن نحب بلادنا وسنبقى فيها.. أما النّفر الغبي الذي هتف قبل أيام في تونس "قتل اليهود فرض واجب"، فهو يقدّم هديّة مجانية لحكّام إسرائيل. لدى وصول الزعيم في حماس اسماعيل هنية الى تونس، قبل أيام، إختار نفرٌ قليل الخروج عن هتافات التوانسة الثورية الصادقة. فقد ارتفع وعلا هتاف “الشعب يريد تحرير فلسطين” في الاستقبال الشعبي لهنيّة، لكن ذلك النفر السّلفي كما يبدو اختار إعلان جهله من خلال الهتاف العنصريّ “قتل اليهود فرض عين”! في تونس، التي تضم يهودًا بين مواطنيها، أثار هذا الهتاف الغبي قلقًا واستنكارًا. فقال بيرس طرابلسي احد ممثلي الطائفة اليهودية التونسية: “لا ...
Keep Reading »11 January 2009: The Hamouda Family
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[The following is narrative sixteen, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “I cannot even pick up another child in my arms, I had a new grandchild, he is six months old, but I have yet to take him in my arms, I feel that place belongs to Fares.” In the early morning of 11 January 2009, the home of Intissar Hamouda, forty-one, in Tal Al-Hawa. Gaza City, came under attack from Israeli forces. Israeli tank fire ...
Keep Reading »American Elections Watch 1: Rick Santorum and The Dangers of Theocracy
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One day after returning to the United States after a trip to Lebanon, I watched the latest Republican Presidential Primary Debate. Unsurprisingly, Iran loomed large in questions related to foreign policy. One by one (with the exception of Ron Paul) the candidates repeated President Obama's demand that Iran not block access to the Strait of Hormuz and allow the shipping of oil across this strategic waterway. Watching them, I was reminded of Israel's demand that Lebanon not exploit its own water resources in 2001-2002. Israel's position was basically that Lebanon's sovereign decisions over the management of Lebanese water resources was a cause for war. In an area where ...
Keep Reading »Remapping Palestine and the Politics of Injury
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New Texts Out Now: Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among Palestinians in Israel
Magid Shihade, Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict Among Palestinians in Israel. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Magid Shihade (MS): One reason was personal. The book begins with a case study of a soccer game between two Palestinian villages: Kafr Yassif, with a dominantly Christian population, and Julis, which is a Druze village. The game ended with a fight between the fans of the two teams and resulted in the killing of two people, ...
Keep Reading »Law and Family (Non-)Unification in Israel: A Conversation Between Samera Esmer, Taiseer Khatib, and Hassan Jabareen
On 11 January, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 2003 Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. This law effectively prohibits Palestinian residents of the 1967 Occupied Territories, who are married to Palestinian citizens of Israel or to residents of East Jerusalem, from entering into Israel for the purpose of family unification. This law was amended in 2007, further prohibiting the entry of spouses who are citizens of Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. To explain the concrete ...
Keep Reading »Letter to Lara Fabian
[The following letter was sent to the artist Lara Fabian on 15 January 2012 by the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of "Israel" in Lebanon.] Beirut, 15 January 2012 Dear Ms. Lara Fabian, Greetings from Beirut. You have declared your full support for Israel. You have sung on its sixtieth "anniversary," which means sixty (by now sixty four) years of ethnic cleansing, house demolitions, apartheid, colonial settlements, and denial of the rights of millions of Palestinian ...
Keep Reading »18 January 2009: The Abu Rujailah family
[The following is narrative twenty-two, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “As I arrived there I found many people in the area, working on their lands. It was calm so I felt comfortable and stayed there. Suddenly one of the jeeps on the border ...
Keep Reading »17 January 2009 - The Al Ashqar Family
[The following is narrative twenty-one, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “Madleen refuses to sleep by herself; she will only sleep in her parent’s room” says Nujoud, “she’s afraid to be by herself at all. The other day we were in the garden and ...
Keep Reading »16 January 2009 - The Shurrab Family
[The following is narrative twenty, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “Can I go to a court to restore my sons? No” says Mohammed. “What is the point in bringing the soldiers who killed my sons to justice when there will simply be more and more ...
Keep Reading »15 January 2009: The al-Nadeem family
[The following is narrative nineteen, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “Naser used to help the children with their school work, especially English and mathematics. Now that is my duty. Nothing can compensate me for the loss of my husband. He was ...
Keep Reading »13 January 2009: Hibba al-Najjar
[The following is narrative seventeen, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “The first two years I could manage but this year I have been suffering a lot from the loss of my mother. When I see girls from my school with their mother or talking about ...
Keep Reading »12 January 2009 - The Ayad Family
[The following is narrative sixteen, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “If there is another war I won’t be moving, even if we die there, I don’t want to go through that again.” On 12 January 2009, the Ayad family home in the Zaytoon area ...
Keep Reading »10 January 2009: Wafa al-Radea
[The following is narrative fifteen, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “When I left my children I was walking and my children had not seen my wounds. The most difficult moment was when I came back with only 1 leg and many injuries. I was a ...
Keep Reading »9 January 2009 - The Abu Oda Family
[The following is narrative fourteen, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] "The Israeli military say they are the most moral army in the world, but they killed my daughter, they didn’t respect her right to live.” On 9 January 2009, the Abu Oda ...
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