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CIAO DATE: 12/03
Fall 2003 (Volume XXXIII, Number 1, Issue 129)
Articles
Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship: Israel's New Hegemony by Nadim Rouhana and Nimer Sultany
This article focuses on the development since the second Palestinian intifada of a new consensus in Israeli Jewish society with regard to the Arab minority, which the authors call "the New Zionist Hegemony." After describing the attitudes and beliefs undergirding the new consensus, the article focuses on four areas in which it manifests itself: legislation, government policies, public opinion, and public discourse. The result of the new policies is to change the meaning of citizenship for non-Jews in an ethnic Jewish state.
Zionism, Orientalism, and the Palestinians by Haim Gerber
The self-critical approach applied by Israel's "New Historians" to the 1948 war needs to be extended to the study of Palestinian history as a whole. Harking back to earlier periods and other sources, the author exposes the Orientalist bias of the traditional Israeli historiography of Palestine by focusing on three of its common contentions: that there was no distinct Palestinian nationalism, that Palestinian society was primitive and backward, and that the speed of the Palestinian collapse in 1948 was a function of inherent flaws in the society.
Essay
The Palestinian Question: Themes of Justice and Power, Part II: The Palestinians in Israel by Raef Zreik
This second of a two-part essay explores how the tension between the imperatives of justice and the realities of the balance of power, which the author contends has shaped Palestinian politics since 1948, affects the Palestinians of Israel, particularly with regard to such issues as citizenship and identity, "Israelization" and "Palestinianization," and demands for equality and autonomy. While the oscillation between the poles of justice/history and power prevents them, like their brethren in the occupied territories (the subject of part 1 of the essay, in JPS 128) from developing a clear strategy, in their case it also undermines their ability to formulate a coherent vision of the requirements for a "historic compromise," without which there can be no true normalization with the Israeli state.
Testimony
The Last Days of "Free Galilee": Memories of 1948 by Elias Srouji
This personal account describes the unfolding of the 1948 war in the Galilee from the vantage point of a Nazareth physician. Covering the period from the months preceding the end of the Mandate in May to the eve of Israel's final military assault on Arab Galilee (Operation Hiram) in late October, the memoir focuses on the repercussions of the evolving situation for Nazareth and its hinterland, highlighting the prevailing mood, the haphazard military and civil defense preparations, and the relief efforts of the local population. Nazareth, an all-Arab town of some 15,000 inhabitants, over 60 percent of whom were Christian and the rest Muslim, was assigned to the Arab state under the UN Partition Plan. Though conquered by the new state of Israel in July 1948, Nazareth was spared the devastation visited upon the other Arab and mixed (Jewish and Arab) towns of Palestine because of its importance to world Christendom and the presence in the town of Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and other international Christian institutions.
Report
People Tied to Place: Strengthening Cultural Identity in Hebron's Old City, by Anita Vitullo
Following the Oslo accords, the Old City of Hebron, one of the best preserved examples of medieval cities in the world but progressively abandoned since the 1967 occupation, became the object of an ambitious Palestinian rehabilitation project, which received international recognition with a 1998 Aga Khan architectural award. This report details the project and the strategy to repopulate the Old City against the background of Hebron's ancient and recent history, including the impact of Israeli policies and settler violence. Israeli measures in the wake of the second intifada have posed unprecedented challenges, which the ongoing project's planners struggle to meet.
Special Document
Ehud Barak on Camp David: "I Did Not Give Away a Thing"
From The Hebrew Press
Recent Books
Marcus: The View from Nebo, and Finkelstein and Silberman: The Bible Unearthed reviewed by Keith W. Whitelam
Philipp: Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831 reviewed by Beshara B. Doumani
Okkenhaug: The Quality of Heroic Living, of High Endeavour and Adventure reviewed by Nancy L. Stockdale
Hoffman: House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood reviewed by Ruba Kana'an
Baroud: Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion 2002 reviewed by Lori A. Allen
Cleary: Literature, Partition, and the Nation-State reviewed by Aamit R. Mufti
Crenner: Fifty-One Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis reviewed by Shraga Elam
Ben-Zvi: John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel reviewed by Duncan L. Clarke
Aruri: Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine reviewed by Cheryl A. Rubenberg
Zunes: Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism reviewed by Fred H. Lawson
Shorter Notices
Arab Views
Quarterly Update On Conflict And Diplomacy
Settlement Monitor
Documents and Source Material
International
A1. U.S. President George W. Bush and Egyptian President Husni Mubarak, Statements Following the Sharm al-Shaykh Summit, Sharm al-Shaykh, Egypt, 2 June 2003 (excerpts)
A2. PA Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Statements Following the Aqaba Summit, Aqaba, Jordan, 4 June 2003 (excerpts)
A3. Quartet Statement on the Progress of the Road Map, Shuneh, Jordan, 22 June 2003
A4. UNRWA, "Impact of the First Phase of the Security Barrier on the Qalqilya, Tulkarm, and Jenin Districts," Gaza City, July 2003 (excerpts)
Arab
B1. Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Press Release on Refugee Views on the Settlement of the Refugee Issue, Ramallah, 18 July 2003 (excerpts)
B2. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, "Statistical Data on Palestinian Refugees and Refugee Views on Refugee Solutions," Ramallah, 4 August 2003 (excerpts)
B3. Interview with Hamas's `Abd al-`Aziz Rantisi and Ismail Abu Shanab, Gaza City, 17 June 2003
United States
C. Pew Research Center for People and the Press, "Views of a Changing World 2003," Introduction and Summary, Philadelphia, 3 June 2003 (excerpts)
Chronology
Bibliography of Periodical Literature