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Israel's Occupation Paperback – October 2, 2008

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This first complete history of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip allows us to see beyond the smoke screen of politics in order to make sense of the dramatic changes that have developed on the ground over the past forty years. Looking at a wide range of topics, from control of water and electricity to health care and education as well as surveillance and torture, Neve Gordon's panoramic account reveals a fundamental shift from a politics of life―when, for instance, Israel helped Palestinians plant more than six-hundred thousand trees in Gaza and provided farmers with improved varieties of seeds―to a macabre politics characterized by an increasing number of deaths. Drawing attention to the interactions, excesses, and contradictions created by the forms of control used in the Occupied Territories, Gordon argues that the occupation's very structure, rather than the policy choices of the Israeli government or the actions of various Palestinian political factions, has led to this radical shift.

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University of California Press
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October 2, 2008
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6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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0520255313
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978-0520255319
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“What is most interesting in Gordon's analysis is the way in which the renovation of occupation practices are identified as an immanent outcome of the ‘excesses and contradictions’ within the system itself.” ― Times Higher Education Published On: 2009-01-26

“Israel’s Occupation becomes a must read on my list; and my first question of anyone that wants to argue with any perspectives on Israel would be ‘Have you read this book yet?’” ― Palestine Chronicle Published On: 2009-02-13

“A must read.” -- Jim Miles ― Opednews.com Published On: 2009-02-14

“This book is a significant contribution to our understanding Israel’s changing methods of rule during the four decades of occupation.” ― Middle East Journal Published On: 2010-07-14

“A unique perspective on the changing dynamics of the Israel-Palestine conflict. . . . The breadth and detail of Gordon's scope provides a powerful systemic framework.” -- Katya Nasim ― Socialist Review: Monthly Mag Of The Socialist Workers Party Published On: 2009-01-01

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"Covering the four decades since the 1967 war rather than just the current situation, Israel's Occupation offers a unique perspective on the changing dynamics of the Israel-Palestine conflict."--Timothy Mitchell, author of Rule of Experts

"Interweaving a mountain of documents, reports, and firsthand testimonies, Neve Gordon, one of Israel's bravest intellectuals and activists, details and examines the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip as no one ever has before. His book will no doubt change the perspective from which the history of the occupation is told."--Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow Land

"Neve Gordon's Israel's Occupation provides a powerful and convincing structural framework for explaining Israel's changing methods of rule in the Palestinian territories from 1967 and until today. The arguments, insights, and supporting evidence are impressive, and the prose is written with a golden pen. This book will change the debate on Israel and its occupation, and I will not be surprised if Gordon's conceptual framework is harnessed to analyze the workings of other occupations, past and present. It's social science at its best."--Yinon Cohen, Columbia University

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; 1st edition (October 2, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520255313
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520255319
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

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Neve Gordon teaches in the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London. He is currently interested in human rights, international humanitarian law and their relation to state sanctioned violence. Neve has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the Watson Institute at Brown University, and at SOAS University of London. During the first intifada, he was the director of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel - and ever since has written a great deal about Israel and the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Gordon is the co-editor of Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel, the editor of From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, author of Israel's Occupation, and the co-author of The Human Right to Dominate and Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire. His writings have appeared in numerous scholarly journals as well as in publications like The Guardian, The Nation, Al Jazeera, The London Review of Books, The Los Angles Review of Books, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education and The LA Times.

Neve Gordon lives in London and can be reached at @nevegordon.

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Christopher M. Whitman Jr.

Neve Gordon documented the occupation and its shifting policies

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2011

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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.

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HASHDAZ

A good anlaysis of the matrix of control in the OTs.

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2010

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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.

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Hamid Hotaki

Excellent Book

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2012

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This was very informative and well written book. Worth every penny spent on purchasing it; furthermore, the author is not bias at all.

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VivianC

Very poorly written and fictional at best

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2011

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.

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Sam I am

Garbage in garbage out

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2011

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...

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