Neve Gordon
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520255302
- eISBN:
- 9780520942363
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520255302.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This epilogue briefly discusses what might lie ahead. It argues that the fragmentation of Palestinian society is inimical to Israel's own interests. The rise of Islamic fundamentalism is only one ...
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This epilogue briefly discusses what might lie ahead. It argues that the fragmentation of Palestinian society is inimical to Israel's own interests. The rise of Islamic fundamentalism is only one part of the problem. One has to be extremely shortsighted not to see how the absence of a united Palestinian leadership will undermine all efforts to bring about local and regional peace. But even if the Palestinians overcome the internal feuds, the conflict with Israel still has to be resolved in order for any kind of peace agreement to emerge. The only tenable way to solve the conflict is by addressing the occupation's structural contradictions. Any attempt to reach or impose a solution to the conflict without reuniting the Palestinian people and their land, and offering them full sovereignty over that land, including a monopoly over legitimate violence and the means of movement, will ultimately lead to more contradictions, and the cycle of violence will surely resume.Less
This epilogue briefly discusses what might lie ahead. It argues that the fragmentation of Palestinian society is inimical to Israel's own interests. The rise of Islamic fundamentalism is only one part of the problem. One has to be extremely shortsighted not to see how the absence of a united Palestinian leadership will undermine all efforts to bring about local and regional peace. But even if the Palestinians overcome the internal feuds, the conflict with Israel still has to be resolved in order for any kind of peace agreement to emerge. The only tenable way to solve the conflict is by addressing the occupation's structural contradictions. Any attempt to reach or impose a solution to the conflict without reuniting the Palestinian people and their land, and offering them full sovereignty over that land, including a monopoly over legitimate violence and the means of movement, will ultimately lead to more contradictions, and the cycle of violence will surely resume.
Paul Kelemen
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780719088124
- eISBN:
- 9781781706152
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719088124.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This study examines how the diverse strands of the British left have interpreted the conflict in Palestine. From being overwhelmingly supportive of the Zionist movement's effort to build a Jewish ...
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This study examines how the diverse strands of the British left have interpreted the conflict in Palestine. From being overwhelmingly supportive of the Zionist movement's effort to build a Jewish state in Palestine and welcoming Israel's establishment the left, in the main, has become increasingly critical of Israel. The Labour Party, for much of its history, had portrayed Zionist settlement as a social democratic experiment that would benefit both Jews and Arabs. Its leaders turned a blind eye to the Zionist movement's sectarian practices which through its trade union and agricultural co-operatives aimed to build an exclusively Jewish economy. The rise of fascism in Europe and the Holocaust reinforced the party's support for Jewish state building in Palestine. The British Communist Party was by contrast critical of Zionism but in 1947, following the lead given by the Soviet Union, endorsed the United Nations’ partition of Palestine and subsequently ignored the plight of the Palestinian refugees. It was not until the rise of the new left, in the late 1960s, that Palestinian nationalist aspiration found a voice on the British left and began to command mainstream attention. The book examines the principal debates on the left over the Palestine/Israel conflict and the political realignment that they have helped to shape.Less
This study examines how the diverse strands of the British left have interpreted the conflict in Palestine. From being overwhelmingly supportive of the Zionist movement's effort to build a Jewish state in Palestine and welcoming Israel's establishment the left, in the main, has become increasingly critical of Israel. The Labour Party, for much of its history, had portrayed Zionist settlement as a social democratic experiment that would benefit both Jews and Arabs. Its leaders turned a blind eye to the Zionist movement's sectarian practices which through its trade union and agricultural co-operatives aimed to build an exclusively Jewish economy. The rise of fascism in Europe and the Holocaust reinforced the party's support for Jewish state building in Palestine. The British Communist Party was by contrast critical of Zionism but in 1947, following the lead given by the Soviet Union, endorsed the United Nations’ partition of Palestine and subsequently ignored the plight of the Palestinian refugees. It was not until the rise of the new left, in the late 1960s, that Palestinian nationalist aspiration found a voice on the British left and began to command mainstream attention. The book examines the principal debates on the left over the Palestine/Israel conflict and the political realignment that they have helped to shape.
Chaim Noy
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199398973
- eISBN:
- 9780199399000
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199398973.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
Chapter 1 supplies an interdisciplinary theoretical introduction to the informed study of visitor books. It suggests different disciplines and theoretical underpinnings, which include four sections: ...
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Chapter 1 supplies an interdisciplinary theoretical introduction to the informed study of visitor books. It suggests different disciplines and theoretical underpinnings, which include four sections: the performance paradigm—mainly in tourism studies—that proposes the visitor book as a public medium and the utterances (entries) as meaningful and aestheticized performances of identity; and the ethnography of writing (and reading), which suggests that text analysis does not suffice and there is a need to observe how commemorative entries and utterances are written or entextualized. Medium theory suggests a view of the visitor book as a political and mobilized medium. And finally, ethnonational commemoration and identity in Israel supply the ideological context within which this medium is effectively and affectively working.Less
Chapter 1 supplies an interdisciplinary theoretical introduction to the informed study of visitor books. It suggests different disciplines and theoretical underpinnings, which include four sections: the performance paradigm—mainly in tourism studies—that proposes the visitor book as a public medium and the utterances (entries) as meaningful and aestheticized performances of identity; and the ethnography of writing (and reading), which suggests that text analysis does not suffice and there is a need to observe how commemorative entries and utterances are written or entextualized. Medium theory suggests a view of the visitor book as a political and mobilized medium. And finally, ethnonational commemoration and identity in Israel supply the ideological context within which this medium is effectively and affectively working.
