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Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza

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Despite the subtitle this is not just another book about the military courts. It is one of the best books that I have read not only about these courts but about the larger conflict between Israel and Palestine. It is written with academic distance and a personal commitment for justice. It should be read by all those seeking to understand how the Israeli occupation used law to achieve results that go beyond the limits international law imposes on an occupier.

Professor Lisa Hajjar's book should be required reading for students of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, advocates of human rights and for anyone who has any doubts about the need to end the Israeli occupation.

Professor Hajjar meticulously analyzes the intricacies of the military court system in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She examines the procedures of arrest, interrogation and trial that Palestinians face on a daily basis. The inherent injustice of this system is skillfully portrayed and it allows the reader to critically interrogate the system itself and the mechanisms that allow it to exist.


Louis Frankenthaler
Education & Development Director
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel
Jerusalem, Israel