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Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within

Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within Holy Land Studies of return’ and Palestinian negotiators willing to postpone the issue. Only Yossi Beilin’s ‘Non-Paper’ at Taba began to recognise that perhaps Israel bore some responsibility. Though, in its mature version, the Geneva Accord, the right of return is still denied to the vast majority of refugees. ‘As we speak,’ said Haydar ‘Abdul Shafi at the outset of the Madrid Conference of 1991, ‘the eyes of thousands of Palestinian refugees … are haunting us.’ As Masalha shows us, they still haunt us while Israel lives in denial. Michelle Strausbaugh Graduate Student, Portland State University PO Box 8682 Portland, Oregon 97207 USA shadiah_us@yahoo.com Uri Davis, 2003. Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within (London: Zed Books). Paperback. pp. 242. In this book, a sequel to Israel: An Apartheid State first published by Zed Books one and a half decades ago, Dr Uri Davis—Chairman of al-Beit Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Israel—provides a critical insight into such questions as how was it possible for the Jewish people, victims of the Nazi genocide during the Second World War, to subject the Palestinian people to such policies as mass deportation, ‘transfer’, ethnic cleansing, prolonged curfews, roadblocks, and economic, social, cultural, civil and political strangulation, punctuated by Apache helicopters strafing civilian residences and targeting civilian individuals. Since its creation in 1948 Israel has acted in blatant violation of most UN resolutions, amassing weapons of mass destruction in flagrant violation of international law. The book raises the question: how is it possible for Israel, its apartheid legislation notwithstanding, to still largely maintain her projection of ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ and effectively veil the apartheid system it has imposed on the Palestinian people? In the course of outlining answers to this and related questions, Davis examines a wide range of issues, including the gradual departure of the Palestine Liberation Organisation from its declared political programme as articulated in the Palestinian Declaration of Independence of 1988, and the struggle within Israel against Israeli apartheid. The book also contributes to the development of a moral critique of Israeli apartheid policies and outlines a political framework for the establishment of a democratic (confederal, federal or unitary) state of Palestine/Israel in conformity with the basic principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international law. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Holy Land Studies Edinburgh University Press

Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within

Holy Land Studies , Volume 3 (1): 126 – May 1, 2004
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Holy Land Studies of return’ and Palestinian negotiators willing to postpone the issue. Only Yossi Beilin’s ‘Non-Paper’ at Taba began to recognise that perhaps Israel bore some responsibility. Though, in its mature version, the Geneva Accord, the right of return is still denied to the vast majority of refugees. ‘As we speak,’ said Haydar ‘Abdul Shafi at the outset of the Madrid Conference of 1991, ‘the eyes of thousands of Palestinian refugees … are haunting us.’ As Masalha shows us, they still haunt us while Israel lives in denial. Michelle Strausbaugh Graduate Student, Portland State University PO Box 8682 Portland, Oregon 97207 USA shadiah_us@yahoo.com Uri Davis, 2003. Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within (London: Zed Books). Paperback. pp. 242. In this book, a sequel to Israel: An Apartheid State first published by Zed Books one and a half decades ago, Dr Uri Davis—Chairman of al-Beit Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Israel—provides a critical insight into such questions as how was it possible for the Jewish people, victims of the Nazi genocide during the Second World War, to subject the Palestinian people to such policies as mass deportation, ‘transfer’, ethnic cleansing, prolonged curfews, roadblocks, and economic, social, cultural, civil and political strangulation, punctuated by Apache helicopters strafing civilian residences and targeting civilian individuals. Since its creation in 1948 Israel has acted in blatant violation of most UN resolutions, amassing weapons of mass destruction in flagrant violation of international law. The book raises the question: how is it possible for Israel, its apartheid legislation notwithstanding, to still largely maintain her projection of ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ and effectively veil the apartheid system it has imposed on the Palestinian people? In the course of outlining answers to this and related questions, Davis examines a wide range of issues, including the gradual departure of the Palestine Liberation Organisation from its declared political programme as articulated in the Palestinian Declaration of Independence of 1988, and the struggle within Israel against Israeli apartheid. The book also contributes to the development of a moral critique of Israeli apartheid policies and outlines a political framework for the establishment of a democratic (confederal, federal or unitary) state of Palestine/Israel in conformity with the basic principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international law.

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