The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine

Ariella Azoulay; Adi Ophir

Published by Stanford University Press 2012

The One-State Condition

Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir

In the series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804784337

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Examines the relationship between the Israeli government and the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and theorizes that the occupation is intrinsic to the existence of the Israeli state.

Author / Editor information

Ariella Azoulay is Director of Photo-Lexic, Tel Aviv University. She is the author of The Civil Contract of Photography (2008) and Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy (2001). Adi Ophir is Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory, Tel Aviv University. He is a coeditor of The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2009) and the author of The Order of Evils: Toward and Ontology of Morals (2005).

Reviews

Neve Gordon:
"This is a first-rate intervention into understanding how the Israeli occupation operates. Innovative and insightful, the volume also transcends the local case to shed new light on violence and governance in conflict zones the world over. A profound contribution to our understanding of the colonial presence."

Etienne Balibar:
"'Neither democratic nor Jewish': this is how Azoulay and Ophir provocatively describe the current regime of the State of Israel, their country of citizenship, in response to the increasing fusion of state formation and colonial occupation. To conceive of a civil association among Jews and Arabs equally considered within the land of historic Palestine—whatever its constitutional form—the authors deconstruct the strategies of ethnic exclusion and systematically envisage the means of liberating political imagination. This will be deemed treason by some, utopia by others, but it is a courageous and well-informed contribution to reopening the future. The alternative is catastrophe."

Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah:
"This book is a brilliant, deeply analytical, and thorough study in re-conceptualizing the Israeli Occupation and the nature of the Israeli regime. It is required reading for all who are interested in a deeper understanding of the state of affairs of the Israeli-Palestinian case. Azoulay and Ophir offer one of the most remarkable books written so far in this field."

P. Rowe:
"The first section is a crucial analysis of the nature of the occupation. The later critique is an important contribution to a critical theory of Israeli politics."

Sarah Alibabaie:
"The authors define their concepts and arguments clearly, and convincingly build the case that Israel as a regime is reliant or contingent upon its occupying activities. The One-State Condition is a must-have aid, not just for navigating the reality of the Isreal-Palestine conflict as it occurs on the ground, but for reading between the lines of other news sources"

Gabriel Piterberg, University of California:
"Ethically and politically committed, Azoulay and Ophir challenge—to put it mildly—hegemonic Zionist Israeli statements that the Palestinian occupation is not part of what 'we' are. With eloquent and impassioned arguments, they acutely undermine the sterile indulgences of current Israeli politics, and ultimately widen the horizon of debate for the political possibilities and future of Israel and Palestine."

Susan Slyomovics:
"This book is a meticulous exploration of the post-1967 Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In laying bare Israel's structural, conceptual and bureaucratic regimes of settler, civilian and military authorities over the Palestinian inhabitants, authors Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir analyze and consider consequences and solutions for the entire region to the operationalized Jewish principle of self-segregation."

Joseph Dana:
"[The One State Condition] is one of the most exhaustive resources on the creation, maintenance and entrenchmer of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza available in any language. . . a startling clear picture of the nature of the Israeli regime is sure to surprise even the most intense observer of the Israeli-Palestinian discourse."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Prologue: The First Year of the Occupation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
PART 1. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE OCCUPATION REGIME
1. The First Decade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. The Second Decade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
3. Uprisings, Separations, and Subjugations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
PART 2. RULING THE NONCITIZENS
4. The Order of Violence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
5. Abandoning Gaza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
PART 3. THE ISRAELI REGIME
6. The Conceptual Scheme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
7. Structural Divisions and State Projects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
8. Civil Recruitment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Conclusion: Toward a New Regime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20

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Published: November 28, 2012
ISBN: 9780804784337