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AbstractOne in three refugees in the world today is Palestinian. The majority of these refugees have no nationality because they were denationalised by Israel's Nationality Law in 1952 after they had fled or been expelled from their homeland in 1948. Israel has refused to allow the majority Palestinian refugees, being displaced in 1948, the right to return to their homes in contravention of U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194 (III). Israel has also refused to allow the majority of Palestinians displaced in 1967 the right to return to their homes despite appeals from the International Committee of the Red Cross and despite calls from the UN Security Council. Since then Israel has manipulated the laws of occupation by transferring its civilian population into the territory it occupies whilst subjecting the indigenous Palestinian population to military law. In 2003, Israel enacted racially discriminatory legislation in the form of the Nationality and Entrance into Israel Law which the U.N. Human Rights Committee has specifically requested Israel revoke. This legislation restricts nationality and residency rights for Arabs resident in the Occupied Palestinian Territories whilst specifically excluding Jewish settlers from its application. These are some examples of the lengths to which the State of Israel is prepared to go – in order to maintain a Jewish majority in the country – even if they violate international law. This paper will examine whether the forced displacement and denationalization of Palestine's original non-Jewish inhabitants – including an examination of Israel's Nationality and Entrance into Israel Law (2003) – are compatible with the basic principles of international law today.

By Buthina Canaan Khoury Palestine: Majd Production Company, 2005. 56 minutes, 1 CD-ROM. $150"I am not the person responsible, the occupation is." Buthina Canaan Khoury tackles a difficult subject in her first feature documentary Women in Struggle. The film is about four Palestinian women imprisoned in Israeli jails for various offences, ranging from the serious, (providing safe houses for members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, surveying targets and planting bombs), to the less serious (waving the Palestinian flag, which was prohibited before the 1993 Oslo Accords).

Making Endless War is built on the premise that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together across time and space. The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli conflicts have been particularly significant in the shaping and attempted remaking of international law from 1945 right through to the present day. This carefully curated collection of essays by lawyers, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and political geographers of war explores the significance of these two conflicts, including their impact on the politics and culture of the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America. The volume foregrounds attempts to develop legal rationales for the continued waging of war after 1945 by moving beyond explaining the end of war as a legal institution, and toward understanding the attempted institutionalization of endless war

Making Endless War is built on the premise that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together across time and space. The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli conflicts have been particularly significant in the shaping and attempted remaking of international law from 1945 right through to the present day. This carefully curated collection of essays by lawyers, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and political geographers of war explores the significance of these two conflicts, including their impact on the politics and culture of the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America. The volume foregrounds attempts to develop legal rationales for the continued waging of war after 1945 by moving beyond explaining the end of war as a legal institution, and toward understanding the attempted institutionalization of endless war.

Preface Victor Kattan -- Foreword: Peter Sluglett and the Study of the Modern Middle East Toby Dodge -- 1. Introduction: Violent Non-State Actors in the Arab World: some General Considerations / Peter Sluglett -- 2. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Violence: Porous Boundaries and Context Khalid Hroub -- 3. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria: Ideology vs. Context / Hassan A. Barari -- 4. Between Religion, Warfare and Politics: the Case of Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria / Mohamed-Ali Adraoui -- 5. The 2007 Hamas-Fatah Conflict in Gaza and the Israeli-American Demands / Victor Kattan -- 6. Hizbullah and the Lebanese State: Indispensable, Unpredictable - Destabilizing? / Peter Sluglett -- 7. When the State becomes a Non-State: Yemen in the Huthi/Ali Abdullah Salih Alliance / Daniel Martin Varisco -- 8. Violent Non-State Actors in Somalia: al-Shabab and the Pirates / Afyare A. Elmi and Ruqaya Mohamed -- 9. 'Being in Time': Kurdish Movement and Quests of Universal / Hamit Borzolan -- Afterword / Abdullah Baabood.