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Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017

A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians

From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine left off.

In this comprehensive exploration of one of the world’s most prolonged and tragic conflicts, Pappe uses recently declassified archival material to analyse the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians – and the decision-making process itself – that laid the foundation of the occupation. From a survey of the legal and bureaucratic infrastructures that were put in place to control the population of over one million Palestinians, to the security mechanisms that vigorously enforced that control, Pappe paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world’s largest ‘open prison’.

ISBN-13: 9781786073419

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Publication Date: 06-11-2019

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor of history at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is also the author of the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), The Modern Middle East (Routledge), The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge), The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel (Yale), The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (Verso) and with Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Penguin). He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.

Table of Contents

List of Maps ix

Preface: One Hill, Two Prisons and Three Agencies xi

Introduction: Re-reading the Narrative of Occupation 1

Chapter 1 The War of Choice 9

Chapter 2 Devising the Mega-Prison 45

Chapter 3 The Greater Jerusalem as a Pilot Project 79

Chapter 4 The Alon Vision 89

Chapter 5 Economic Rewards and Punitive Reprisals 104

Chapter 6 The Ethnic Cleansing of June 1967 112

Chapter 7 The Labour Legacy, 1968-1977 129

Chapter 8 The Bureaucracy of Evil 137

Chapter 9 On the Road to the Intifada, 1977-1987 154

Chapter 10 The First Intifada, 1987-1993 173

Chapter 11 The Oslo Charade and the Second Intifada 194

Chapter 12 The Ultimate Maximum Security Prison Model: the Gaza Strip 213

Bibliography 231

Notes 239

Maps 257

Index 265