CIAO DATE: 05/2008
Volume: 37, Issue: 146
Date: Winter 2008
From the Editor (PDF)
Rashid I. Khalidi
Sixty Years after the UN Partition Resolution: What Future for the Arab Economy in Israel?
Raja Khalidi
Despite the expectations of economic theory, a century of Arab-Jewish economic interaction in Palestine has not led to the convergence that is supposed to result from exchange between a capital-rich economy and a labor-intensive one. After 60 years of failed integration, the Arab population in Israel has fallen to the bottom of the socio-economic ladder. With the Palestinian "regional economies" in Israel and the occupied territories operating as part of the same Israeli economic regime, the challenge for Palestinian economic policy makers is to build on the new paradigm in shaping a national development strategy aimed at reconstructing Arab-Jewish economic relations on the principles of balanced cooperation embodied in the Economic Annex of the 1947 UN partition resolution.
RAJA KHALIDI is an economist with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD, Geneva). The views expressed are his own and do not reflect those of the United Nations Secretariat.
Anatomy of the 1936–39 Revolt: Images of the Body in Political Cartoons of Mandatory Palestine
Sandy Sufian
This article analyzes body images in political cartoons during the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt. By deciphering the visual messages in the political cartoons of two newspapers--the Arabic Filastin and the Hebrew Davar-the article examines how body representations portray stereotypes of rivals and reveal assumptions about and relations between conflicting parties. Visual imagery maintained its impact by illustrating nationalist attitudes, critiques, and goals. In addition to being referents to a period not well documented in images, cartoons are also potent historical sources for reconstructing a sociopolitical history of Palestine.
SANDY SUFIAN is an assistant professor of medical humanities and history at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Crossroads and Contexts: Interviews on Archaeology in Gaza (PDF)
Fareed Armaly, Marc-André Haldimann, Jawdat Khoudary, Jean-Baptiste Humbert, Moain Sadeq
History Erased: The IDF and the Post-1948 Destruction of Palestinian Monuments
Meron Rapoport
Mizrahim, Abstracted: Action, Reflection, and the Academization of the Mizrahi Cause
Moshe Behar
Norton: Hezbullah: A Short History (PDF)
Rula Abisaab
Cypel: Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse
Yerah Gover
Schwanitz: Germany and the Middle East, 1871–1845
Lenni Brenner
Dumper: The Future for Palestinian Refugees: Toward Equity and Peace (PDF)
Rosemary Sayigh
King: A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance
Joost Hiltermann
Weizman: Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Farhat Y. Muhawi
Maoz: Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israeli Security and Foreign Policy
Steve Niva
Dabashi: Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema (PDF)
Haim Bresheeth
Weir: Embroidery from Palestine
Margarita Skinner
Shorter Notices
A1. John Dugard, Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, Geneva, 17 August 2007 (excerpts)
A2. World Bank, Two-Year Economic Monitoring Report on the Situation in the Palestinian Territories, Washington, DC, 24 September 2007 (excerpts)
A3. European Parliament, Resolution on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza, Brussels, 11 October 2007
B1. Hamas Politbureau Chief Khalid Mishal, Remarks on the Forthcoming Annapolis Conference, Negotiations, Palestinian Divisions, and the PLO, Damascus, 5 November 2007 (excerpts)
B2. PA President Mahmud Abbas, Interview on Negotiations, Relations with Hamas, and the Curbing of Fatah, Ramallah, 13 November 2007
C1. B'Tselem, Press Release on the Petition to Supreme Court against Suspension of Gaza Power Supply, Jerusalem, 29 October 2007
C2. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Speech to the Knesset on Annapolis and the Peace Process, Jerusalem, 12 November 2007 (excerpts)
D1. Human Rights Watch, Report on Civilian Casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 War, New York, September 2007 (excerpts)
D2. Seventy-nine U.S. Senators, Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice concerning the Responsibilities of Friendly Arab States, Washington, DC, 10 September 2007
D3. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Lee Hamilton, et al, Letter on Middle East Peace Conference to President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, 10 October 2007
D4. David Cole, "Anti-Terrorism on Trial: Why the Government Loses Funding Cases," Washington, DC, 24 October 2007.
D5. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Speech on the Bush Administration and the Peace Process, Nashville, 13 November 2007 (excerpts)
CHRONOLOGY: 16 August–15 November 2007
Bibliography of Periodical Literature