At the heart of the current Palestinian-Israeli struggle lies the question of territorial partition and the establishment of sovereignty. The Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority negotiated interim borders, but new permanent checkpoints and border closures became severe problems and contributed to the failure of negotiations and the eruption of a new uprising. Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel is about passing through these checkpoints—specifically those that mark the Green Line, the geopolitical border separating the West Bank from Israel proper—and how their existence affects the daily life of West Bank Palestinians.
With unparalleled access to firsthand accounts, Avram S. Bornstein explores the complex relationship between Israeli Arabs, Jews, and West Bank Palestinians in the best tradition of ethnographic inquiry and participant observation. By describing the everyday lives of West Bank Palestinians with whom he lived and worked, Bornstein reveals that Palestinian agriculture and industry have become so severely restricted by Israeli border policies that tens of thousands of Palestinians must work for Israelis, crossing the border illegally every day to get to their jobs. The divide can be felt profoundly by those Palestinians forced to live in the West Bank, as their socioeconomic situations differ dramatically from those of relatives living only a few miles on the other side of the border.
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Avram S. Bornstein teaches anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York.
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This is a must have book to understand real daily life problems and local social issues in the occupied territories as seen by an outsider. Enjoy!!
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The quintessential Palestinian experience, which illustrates some of the most basic issues raised by Palestinian identity, takes place at the border, an airport, a checkpoint: in short, at any one of those many modern barriers where identities are checked and verified. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mutual personhood, geopolitical border, border closures, armistice line, illegal workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Bank, Abu Samud, Umm Samud, Abu Karim, Green Line, Abu Hasan, Abu Thaki, Abu Bassam, Palestinian Authority, Abu Harab, Hajji Latifa, Tel Aviv, United States, Abu Kamash, Saudi Arabia, World War, East Bank, Gulf War, Kafr East, Holy Land, Border Guard, Jewish Israelis, Jordan River, South Africa, East Jerusalem New!
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The quintessential Palestinian experience, which illustrates some of the most basic issues raised by Palestinian identity, takes place at the border, an airport, a checkpoint: in short, at any one of those many modern barriers where identities are checked and verified. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mutual personhood, geopolitical border, border closures, armistice line, illegal workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Bank, Abu Samud, Umm Samud, Abu Karim, Green Line, Abu Hasan, Abu Thaki, Abu Bassam, Palestinian Authority, Abu Harab, Hajji Latifa, Tel Aviv, United States, Abu Kamash, Saudi Arabia, World War, East Bank, Gulf War, Kafr East, Holy Land, Border Guard, Jewish Israelis, Jordan River, South Africa, East Jerusalem New!
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- Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (The Ethnography of Political Violence) by Jeffrey A. Sluka on 5 pages
- Social Suffering by Arthur Kleinman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Middle East (Sociology of Development Societies) by Talal Asad in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ethnic Groups and Boundaries by Fredrik Barth on page 17, and Back Matter
- The Innocents Abroad (Dover Value Editions) by Mark Twain on page 34
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