Understanding Israel/Palestine
Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict (Second Edition)
Series: - Teaching Race and Ethnicity, Volume: 8
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.
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).
Preface
Acknowledgements
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
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
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
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
Graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and scholars of the Middle East (history, political science), or of Peace and Conflict Studies, or of Human Rights. Academic and public libraries, educated laymen. Staffers of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) or government departments operating in the Middle East. All Churches and Synagogues with a Middle East Working Groups.