“Laboratory of the Extreme”: Spatial Warfare and the New Geography of Israel’s Occupation

Books under review:
Eyal Weizman, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation (New York: Verso, 2007)
Saree Makdisi, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008)
Neve Gordon, Israel’s Occupation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008)

Nigel Parsons Reviews Israel's Occupation

In his acknowledgements, Neve Gordon tells of a meeting in Jerusalem at which the “Humanitarian Action in Catastrophe” group identified an “urgent need to theorize Israel's occupation” (xiii). The result is this book, Israel's Occupation. It is an impressive and important achievement, and one to which future analysts will be obliged to refer.

Israel's Occupation

Israel's Occupation

The Structure of Israel's Occupation

Israel has used Gaza as a free fire zone for 22 days and nights. Inevitably, the question arises how could Israel’s occupation become so brutal taking into account the country’s claim of being a “benign occupation power”. Neve Gordon’s book asks exactly that question.

CALIBRATED CONTROL

Israel's Occupation

There are many sources of information from websites through newspapers to books that carry significant referenced information about the history and context of the Israel/Palestine problem that, with the support of the U.S. government and the ambitions of the Israelis, has become a global problem.

No Daylight

Israel's Occupation: No end to an ongoing conflict

Israeli methods of controlling Palestinians have changed but not lessened their grip, says Lori Allen

On the 20th Day