Understanding Israel/Palestine
Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict (Second Edition)
Published on 29. May 2019
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Paperback/Softback
444 pages
978-90-04-39412-4 (ISBN)
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The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is the longest on-going hot-and-cold war in the 20th and 21st century. In this book the author argues that human rights standards are the key to a just and sustainable solution and that, tragically, no one has ever made serious use of them in trying to end the conflict. The reader will have a comprehensive view of the conflict, its relationship to surrounding world events, and its similarities to and differences from other conflicts, especially those embedded in American race relations.
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"It is exceedingly difficult, given the breadth of the question of Palestine, to distill a century of history into a single monograph. It is yet more difficult to do so in a way that is both academically rigorous and profoundly approachable to those unfamiliar with this history. In Understanding Israel/Palestine, Eve Spangler succeeds in the face of these challenges, producing a remarkable resource that everyone from neophytes to experts will find compelling. Spangler seamlessly weaves detailed historical analysis and theoretical framing with contemporary experiences and observations gained from years of leading student groups on trips through Palestine/Israel. (...) Spangler's rigorous scholarship, years of experience and carefully considered, thorough, and convincing arguments result in a vital resource for experts and nonexperts alike." - M. DeMaio (2021). Book Review. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1-2.More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-39412-4 (9789004394124)
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Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict (Second Edition)
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Eve Spangler, Ph.D. (1977), Boston College, is an Associate Professor of Sociology. She is also a human rights activist whose work, in the past decade, has focused on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict. She has published on this topic in Counterpunch, Mondweiss, and in Understanding Israel/Palestine (1st edition, Sense Publishers, 2015).
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction: Tell Our Story
?Background Information
?Reasons to Hope
?Methodological Considerations
?Plan of the Book
Chapter 2: In Israel and Palestine: What You See Is What We Bought
?Settlement Building
?Expulsion
?Suppression
?Containment
?Creativity and Resilience
?Conclusion
Chapter 3: Basic Concepts: Human Rights, Race, and Nation
?Introduction
?Human Rights: Beyond Family and Tribe
?Race: Arabs as the Emerging Racial "Other"
?Nation and Nationalism: The Right to Have Rights
Chapter 4: Zionism: The Idea That Changed Everything
?Assimilation
?Reform
?Confrontation
?Exit
Part 2: A Brief History of the Conflict: Another Look
Chapter 5: State Builders, Settlers, and Colonial Subjects: The Past Is Prologue
?Zionists in the Pre-State Period
?The Great Powers in the Pre-State Period
?The Palestinians in the Pre-State Period
?The Spiral into Tragedy
Chapter 6: Establishing the State, Preparing Occupation
?The Israelis: Creating a National Framework
?The Great and Regional Powers in the Era of Decolonization
?The Palestinians: Divided and Abandoned
?The Sprial into Tragedy
Chapter 7: Occupation and Resistance: The Zionist Dream
Comes True, or Be Careful What You Ask For
?The Israelis: Realizing the Dream, Generating Resistance
?The Great and Regional Powers: Selling Out Palestine
?The Palestinians: Going it Alone
?The Spiral into Tragedy and Multiple Wars
Chapter 8: The Endless, Deceptive Peace Process
?The Israelis and the "Peace Process"
?The Great and Regional Powers and the Peace Process
?The Palestinians and the Peace Process
?The Peace Process and the Spiral of Tragedy
?Beyond the Peace Process: Marshalling International Support for Human Rights
?The Peace Process
Part 3: Moving Forward
Chapter 9: Four Frames: Israeli Self-Defense, Genocide, Apartheid, Settler Colonialism: Ethnic Cleansing/Sociocide
?Israeli Self-Defense
?Genocide
?Apartheid
?Settler Colonialism: Ethnic Cleansing and Sociocide
?Conclusion
Chapter 10: Zionism Revisited: From 1967 Back to 1948
?Zionism as Colonization and Ethnic Cleansing/Sociocide
?Zionism as Self-Ghettoization
?Zionism and the Promise of Safety
?Zionism and Globalization
Chapter 11: Conclusion: Hope and History
?Lessons from the Past
?Tools for Change Signs of Hope
?Conclusion: Finding the Tipping Point
Part 4: Supplementary Material
Appendix A: Time Line
Appendix B: Study Questions
References
About the Author
Index
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction: Tell Our Story
?Background Information
?Reasons to Hope
?Methodological Considerations
?Plan of the Book
Chapter 2: In Israel and Palestine: What You See Is What We Bought
?Settlement Building
?Expulsion
?Suppression
?Containment
?Creativity and Resilience
?Conclusion
Chapter 3: Basic Concepts: Human Rights, Race, and Nation
?Introduction
?Human Rights: Beyond Family and Tribe
?Race: Arabs as the Emerging Racial "Other"
?Nation and Nationalism: The Right to Have Rights
Chapter 4: Zionism: The Idea That Changed Everything
?Assimilation
?Reform
?Confrontation
?Exit
Part 2: A Brief History of the Conflict: Another Look
Chapter 5: State Builders, Settlers, and Colonial Subjects: The Past Is Prologue
?Zionists in the Pre-State Period
?The Great Powers in the Pre-State Period
?The Palestinians in the Pre-State Period
?The Spiral into Tragedy
Chapter 6: Establishing the State, Preparing Occupation
?The Israelis: Creating a National Framework
?The Great and Regional Powers in the Era of Decolonization
?The Palestinians: Divided and Abandoned
?The Sprial into Tragedy
Chapter 7: Occupation and Resistance: The Zionist Dream
Comes True, or Be Careful What You Ask For
?The Israelis: Realizing the Dream, Generating Resistance
?The Great and Regional Powers: Selling Out Palestine
?The Palestinians: Going it Alone
?The Spiral into Tragedy and Multiple Wars
Chapter 8: The Endless, Deceptive Peace Process
?The Israelis and the "Peace Process"
?The Great and Regional Powers and the Peace Process
?The Palestinians and the Peace Process
?The Peace Process and the Spiral of Tragedy
?Beyond the Peace Process: Marshalling International Support for Human Rights
?The Peace Process
Part 3: Moving Forward
Chapter 9: Four Frames: Israeli Self-Defense, Genocide, Apartheid, Settler Colonialism: Ethnic Cleansing/Sociocide
?Israeli Self-Defense
?Genocide
?Apartheid
?Settler Colonialism: Ethnic Cleansing and Sociocide
?Conclusion
Chapter 10: Zionism Revisited: From 1967 Back to 1948
?Zionism as Colonization and Ethnic Cleansing/Sociocide
?Zionism as Self-Ghettoization
?Zionism and the Promise of Safety
?Zionism and Globalization
Chapter 11: Conclusion: Hope and History
?Lessons from the Past
?Tools for Change Signs of Hope
?Conclusion: Finding the Tipping Point
Part 4: Supplementary Material
Appendix A: Time Line
Appendix B: Study Questions
References
About the Author
Index