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CIAO DATE: 06/02
Summer 2001 (Volume XXX, Number 4, Issue 120)
Palestinian Society and Economy: The Continued Denial of Possibility by Sara Roy
This article explores the economic, political, and social changes in the West Bank and Gaza that have occurred since the beginning of the Oslo process in 1993. It argues that Oslo enabled Israel to control the Palestinian territories through the Palestinian Authority with damaging results that built up into collective disillusionment and rage that finally exploded in the al-Aqsa intifada.
Human Rights in Israel/Palestine: The History and Politics of a Movement by Lisa Hajjar
This article traces the development and transformation of the human rights movement in Israel/Palestine, focusing mainly on the situation in the West Bank and Gaza. The conflict is, at its core, a struggle over rights, pitting the prerogatives of the Israeli state against the national and human rights of the Palestinian population (i.e., to self-determination, legal protections, civil liberties). Since the creation of the Palestinian Authority in 1994, however, rights-violating practices have continued.
Picketing for Hebrew Labor: A Window on Histadrut Tactics and Strategy by Steven A. Glazer
Between 1927 and 1936, the Histadrut conducted a series of picketing campaigns aimed at removing Palestinian workers from Jewish-owned work sites. The longest campaign, which mobilized members of the Zionist labor federation and like-minded allies across the political spectrum, was conducted in the colony of Kfar Saba in 1934. This study examines this campaign, including the mechanisms and organization of the picketing campaign, and places it within the context of increasing Zionist-Palestinian enmity.
Utopian Zionism or Zionist Proselytism? A Reading of Herzl's Altneuland by Muhammad Ali Khalidi
After discussing the basic premise and narrative structure of Theodor Herzl's novel about a new Jewish society in Palestine, this article highlights three fundamental paradoxes posed by the work: Herzl's disavowal of the utopian label, the absence of Jewish culture in the new society, and the novel's espousal of ideas known to be at odds with its author's beliefs. The article shows how all these paradoxes are resolved if the novel is seen as intended not for a Jewish audience, but as a work of persuasion for European Gentiles.
`Asim Abu Shaqra: The Artist's Eye and the Cactus Tree by Kamal Boullata
While focusing on the work of a Palestinian artist whose central image was the cactus, this essay traces the cactus theme in Palestinian and Jewish settler art. In so doing, it sheds light on the two peoples' differing world views, on the history of modern Palestinian painting and its links to the iconic tradition, and, more generally, on the nature of the settler enterprise and Palestinian dispossession and exile.
Book Review
Jerusalem. Osman by Issam Nassar
Constructing Boundaries. Bernstein by Ellen Fleischmann
Parsons: The Druze betwen Palestine and Israel, 1947-49. by Kais M. Firro
Thomas: How Israel Was Won. by John Ruedy
Masalha: A Land Without People. by As'ad Ghanem
Mishal and Sela: The Palestinian Hamas and Schoch: The Islamic Movement. by Khaled Hroub
Berstein: Der Verborgene Frieden. by Ilan Pappé
Segal, Levy, Sa'id, and Katz: Negotiating Jerusalem. by Edy Kaufman
Fischbach: State, Society and Land in Jordan. by Betty S. Anderson
Butenschon: Citizenship and the State in the Middle East. by Laurie A. Brand
Zuhur: Images of Enchantment. by Marlé Hammond