A Half Century of Occupation
：Israel, Palestine, and the World's Most Intractable Conflict
Publication subTitle ：Israel, Palestine, and the World's Most Intractable Conflict
Author： Shafir > Gershon
Publisher： University Of California Press
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9780520966734
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520293502
Subject： D815.4 Middle East and the question of Palestine
Keyword： 亚洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the world’s most polarizing confrontations. Its current phase, Israel’s “temporary” occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, turned a half century old in June 2017. In these timely and provocative essays, Gershon Shafir asks three questions—What is the occupation, why has it lasted so long, and how has it transformed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? His cogent answers illuminate how we got here, what here is, and where we are likely to go. Shafir expertly demonstrates that at its fiftieth year, the occupation is riven with paradoxes, legal inconsistencies, and conflicting interests that weaken the occupiers’ hold and leave the occupation itself vulnerable to challenge.
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