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Israel's Occupation

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Neve Gordon does everyone a service by meticulously explaining the complex matrix of control Israel started laying down weeks after the Occupation began. It draws on sources in Hebrew that have not been translated into English.

Some observations/criticisms:

1)Since it is more scholarly than polemical (and hence some of its strength and validity) it makes at times for a slightly difficult read. Some of this has to do with the book layout , fonts etc, mostly with the way the subject matter is addressed.

2)It could have done with more maps. B'Tselem and other human rights groups in the Occupied Territories (OT) have some excellent ones. Their liberal inclusion would have been a more tangible reminder of how moth-eaten and non-viable the possibility of a 2-state solution now is.

3)A separate chapter on East Jerusalem would have been helpful. Gordon addresses EJ throughout the book but I have always been struck by how even the most knowledgeable observers of the scene (the recent attention to the issue notwithstanding) do not make it clear that EJ is Occupied Territory whose 'final status' has been subject to creeping and constant unilateral manipulation.

All-in-all a powerful and precise book whose conclusions only the most rabid nationalist (and there'll be plenty even on this forum) would bother to deny.

Neve Gordon, ISRAELI Professor at Ben Gurion University, wrote a book documenting the shifting policies of the occupation and how this affected the Palestinian population under said occupation. He begins in 1967 and uses military and governmental documents to go over the issue. He breaks the occupation down into specific times and documents thoroughly the impact and policies. I do not know what else to say, it is rather basic and straightforward, just look at the title.

Neve Gordon has a vivid imagination and fairytale articulation worth of Hansel and Gretel..... This so called professor takes snippets of data and innuendoes add a cupful of biased emotion and self-hatred and voila a theoretical theory on occupation and Israel policy....
Do not waste your money on garbage you can have it for free at any dumpsite...

This book by the so called "Professor" is another bashing blog against Israel by an American who has never even been to Israel. He uses his book as his way to vent against an entire nation and it's democratically elected population. What about the Hamas regime that rounds up civilians every night, imprisons them and tortures them? What about the corruption throughout the Arab regimes? What about th moral compass of Hamas and Hizbollah who denegrate women and Christians within their own territories. Please, at least offer an objective non-fiction account as opposed to subjective.