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This collection of essays by Israeli, Palestinian, and American scholars and activists examines the impact of the June 1967 War on Palestinians and Israelis alike in the thirty years following the war. Israel became an occupying power in 1967, ruling more than one million Palestinians in territories it had captured. Using military strength, with the tacit agreement and support of the United States and other Western democracies, Israel exploited and oppressed the Palestinians, brutally suppressing their civil, human, and political rights. This book evaluates and examines the injustices done to the Palestinians during this period.
In this first attempt to look back at those thirty years and assess what has happened to Israeli and Palestinian society, the contributing scholars provide a critique of the prevailing
Realpolitik in the Middle East and, indeed, the world today. Bound to be controversial, the collection will be of great interest to scholars and policy makers, as well as concerned citizens interested in the contemporary Middle East.
List of contents
Introduction by Haim Gordon
Global PerspectivesThe "Peace Process" in U.S. Global Strategy by Noam Chomsky
The June 1967 War as a Turning Point in Israel's Strategic Outlook: Amplified Power with Limited Steering Capacity by Yehezkel Dror
Defeat and Victory: Thirty Years Since the 1967 War by Musa Budairi
Israeli-Palestinian RelationsA Lost Opportunity: A Buberian Outlook on the Occupation by Haim Gordon
Comments to Haim Gordon, "A Lost Opportunity: A Buberian Outlook on the Occupation" by Paul Mendes-Flohr
The Links Between the Israeli and Palestinian Economies Since 1967: Between Imposed Integration and Voluntary Separation by Aryeh Arnon
Breaking the Mirror:Oslo and After by Ilan Pappe
Development of Identity under the Oppression of Occupation: The Palestinian Case by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Postmodernism and the Oslo Agreement by Anat Matar
The Politics of Health Care in the Occupied Territories, 1967-1997 by Ruchama Marton
Developments Within IsraelThe June 1967 War and Its Influence on the Political Culture in Israel by Moshe Zuchermann
Bagatz (the High Court of Justice) versus the Geneva Convention by Leon Sheleff
Changes in Political positions of Israeli Leftist Parties Since the June 1967 War by Tamar Gozansky
Semantics and Pragmatics of Occupation by Anat Biletzki
About the author
HAIM GORDON is Professor of Education at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev-Israel. Professor Gordon has published extensively, his latest project is a
Dictionary of Existentialism (Greenwood Press, 1999).
