
Disposable Palestinians
Israel's Wars and Genocide in Gaza
Bashir Abu-Manneh(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. October 2026
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-5095-7488-9 (ISBN)
Description
Palestinians are undergoing another era of disposability and their existence in Palestine is in peril. How do Palestinians living under occupation get here, what are the causes of October 7 and Israel's genocidal policy in Gaza, and can Palestinians overcome their systemic dehumanization by Israel?
Disposable Palestinians tackles this reality head on. It advances disposability as a key concept for understanding Israel's restructured settler colonial regime during the Oslo period. It explains how a flawed peace process becomes a war process that targets Palestinian society, and why every Israeli war since the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000 is more violent, more destructive, and consistently popular in Israel - leading to the genocide in Gaza. It examines Israel's ideological and unlawful invocation of 'self-defense' to enforce its military occupation and colonization project and shows how its recourse to force militarizes Palestinian resistance, degrades democracy, and demobilizes collective action in Israel-Palestine. It also pinpoints two reasons for Israel's impunity: Israeli domestic support for war and US empire in the Middle East.
Disposable Palestinians critically interrogates this political history of colonialism and war. After failed strategies of unequal peace and indiscriminate militarism, a new mass Palestinian political strategy is more urgent than ever. It requires a collective struggle that reactivates Palestinian democracy, organizes global solidarity, and implements international law and the right of Palestinian self-determination. To end Palestinian disposability is a generational challenge for Palestinians and their supporters around the world.
Disposable Palestinians tackles this reality head on. It advances disposability as a key concept for understanding Israel's restructured settler colonial regime during the Oslo period. It explains how a flawed peace process becomes a war process that targets Palestinian society, and why every Israeli war since the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000 is more violent, more destructive, and consistently popular in Israel - leading to the genocide in Gaza. It examines Israel's ideological and unlawful invocation of 'self-defense' to enforce its military occupation and colonization project and shows how its recourse to force militarizes Palestinian resistance, degrades democracy, and demobilizes collective action in Israel-Palestine. It also pinpoints two reasons for Israel's impunity: Israeli domestic support for war and US empire in the Middle East.
Disposable Palestinians critically interrogates this political history of colonialism and war. After failed strategies of unequal peace and indiscriminate militarism, a new mass Palestinian political strategy is more urgent than ever. It requires a collective struggle that reactivates Palestinian democracy, organizes global solidarity, and implements international law and the right of Palestinian self-determination. To end Palestinian disposability is a generational challenge for Palestinians and their supporters around the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-5095-7488-9 (9781509574889)
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Person
Bashir Abu-Manneh is Reader in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent.
Content
Introduction
1. Peace and Disposability
Disposability and Settler Colonialism
Political Outcomes
2. Wars of Politicide
No "Mercy to a Cruel Enemy"
Self-Defence?
Permanent War Society
Military Resistance Trap
3. October 7 and Genocide in Gaza
Messianic Militarism
Genocide
Politics of Impunity
4. Justice and Political Strategy
International Legality
Illegal Occupation
Political Strategy
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes
1. Peace and Disposability
Disposability and Settler Colonialism
Political Outcomes
2. Wars of Politicide
No "Mercy to a Cruel Enemy"
Self-Defence?
Permanent War Society
Military Resistance Trap
3. October 7 and Genocide in Gaza
Messianic Militarism
Genocide
Politics of Impunity
4. Justice and Political Strategy
International Legality
Illegal Occupation
Political Strategy
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes