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Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population

"The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the most polarizing and long-lived confrontations in the world. Tearing communities apart in Israel and Occupied Palestine, with repercussions across the globe, Israel's "temporary" occupation turns a half century old in 2017. This timely and provocative book offers a background history and context for general readers and covers the major turning points of the conflict. Expertly detailing the political, diplomatic, and legal dimensions of the struggle, Gershon Shafir examines the effect of the colonization of occupied territories on Israel's democracy and offers compelling reasons and possibilities for ending the occupation now."--Provided by publisher

Introduction: the evolving tradition of citizenship / Gershon Shafir -- The ideal of citizenship since classical times / J.G.A. Pocock -- Citizenship in ancient and medieval cities / Max Weber -- Justice as fairness in the liberal polity / John Rawls -- Citizenship and community: civic republicanism and the modern world / Adrian Oldfield -- Citizenship and social class / T.H. Marshall -- Contract versus charity: why is there no social citizenship in the United States? / Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon -- Immigration, citizenship, and the nation-state in France and Germany / Rogers Brubaker -- Multicultural citizenship / Will Kymlicka -- Toward a postnational model of membership / Yasemin Nuho#ƒlu Soysal -- Citizenship in a woman-friendly polity / Kathleen B. Jones -- The dynamics of citizenship in Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process / Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled -- Polity and group difference: a critique of the ideal of universal citizenship / Iris Marion Young -- The civil society argument / Michael Walzer

AbstractThis article's geographical focus is the Galilee, Israel's only region with a Palestinian Arab majority. Its sociological focus is the drive to Judaize this region, the mirror image of its de-Arabization, which I anchor in Israelis' morbid fear of settler colonial reversal. Although direct legal discrimination—restriction of movement under a military government and exclusion from publicly administered land—was banned by the government and the High Court of Justice respectively, new modes of discrimination against Israel's Arab citizens have replaced the older forms. I demonstrate how policies that limit Arab middle-class citizens' upwardly mobile migration into the Judaized spaces of communal settlements (or overlooks) and towns endure. I compare gatekeeping exercised by national-level indirect legal discrimination operating through the admission committees of communal settlements with the institutional discrimination practiced by municipalities of emerging mixed towns against new Arab residents' public presence. Finally, I highlight the linkages between instances of Judaization across the Green Line, which make the unwinding of segregation, in all of its forms, that much harder.

AbstractThis article's geographical focus is the Galilee, Israel's only region with a Palestinian Arab majority. Its sociological focus is the drive to Judaize this region, the mirror image of its de-Arabization, which I anchor in Israelis' morbid fear of settler colonial reversal. Although direct legal discrimination—restriction of movement under a military government and exclusion from publicly administered land—was banned by the government and the High Court of Justice respectively, new modes of discrimination against Israel's Arab citizens have replaced the older forms. I demonstrate how policies that limit Arab middle-class citizens' upwardly mobile migration into the Judaized spaces of communal settlements (or overlooks) and towns endure. I compare gatekeeping exercised by national-level indirect legal discrimination operating through the admission committees of communal settlements with the institutional discrimination practiced by municipalities of emerging mixed towns against new Arab residents' public presence. Finally, I highlight the linkages between instances of Judaization across the Green Line, which make the unwinding of segregation, in all of its forms, that much harder.

AbstractIn response to the outbreak of the Arab Revolt of 1936, a coterie of five prominent entrepreneurs and intellectuals in the Mandatory Jewish community formulated a capitalist binationalist resolution of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This paper examines the genesis of and debate over the little-known Concord they proposed and compares it with better-known liberal and socialist binationalist plans. "The Five," as they came to be known, were the only binationalists seeking to base political parity on economic integration. The occasion of their blueprint allows further exploration of the preconditions for an effective binationalist program, among them the structure of labor markets, political preferences of minorities and majorities in regard to sovereignty, and levels of mutual trust. Ultimately, binationalist resolutions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict were precluded by the Labor Settlement Movement's separatist state-building strategy.

Extremists on both sides have made peacemaking difficult, but it is too soon to write off the Oslo formula of "land for peace" as a viable path to a two-state solution.

Vergleichende Analyse der Rolle wirtschaftlicher Kreise in Israel im Friedensprozeß und in Südafrika bei der Beendigung der Apartheid. In beiden Fällen haben internationale wirtschaftliche Sanktionen dazu geführt, daß die heimische Wirtschaft ihre Interessen neu formuliert, die Fortdauer der Konflikte als wirtschaftshemmend begriffen und eine aktive Rolle bei der Unterstützung der Friedensbemühungen übernommen hat. (DÜI-Hns)