Israel's Colonial Predicament | A Novel Framework for Analysing Israeli-Palestinian Relations and Conflict

Florian Heyden

ISBN 10: 3640328604 / ISBN 13: 9783640328604

Published by GRIN Verlag, 2009

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Israel's Colonial Predicament | A Novel Framework for Analysing Israeli-Palestinian Relations and Conflict | Florian Heyden | Taschenbuch | 64 S. | Englisch | 2009 | GRIN Verlag | EAN 9783640328604 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: GRIN Publishing GmbH, Waltherstr. 23, 80337 München, info[at]grin[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: Israel's Colonial Predicament | A Novel Framework for Analysing Israeli-Palestinian Relations and Conflict
• Publisher: GRIN Verlag
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3640328604
• ISBN 13: 9783640328604
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 5D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
• Weight: 107 grams
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Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: Distinction (Very good), King`s College London (King's College London), course: The Occupied Territories Since 1967, language: English, abstract: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a complicated and multi-dimensional conflict. In many contexts, it is very hard, if not impossible, to assess the violence between Palestinian and Israeli society today without resorting to a developed theory rather than emotion. However, many scholars and politicians hold the assumption that Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be properly understood with the frameworks, categories and concepts employed to understand other countries and conflicts . We shall endeavour to counter such beliefs and develop exactly that, a framework for analysing Israeli-Palestinian relations and conflict, allowing us to put the conflict into perspective and further develop a structural investigation into the root causes of conflict. We will do this at the example of the Algerian uprising against French colonialism. To develop such a framework, we will draw on classic texts such as the writings of Fanon and Memmi, as well as works by writers such as Bregmann, Barnett and Khader, but also on others, cross-referencing continuously between texts on colonialism, Israel-Palestine, and Algeria. As the title of this text indicates, the author holds the view that the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories is essentially a colonial one. This is not to say that we should consider the Territories a colony. Algeria was not a colony. What we want to say is that we believe in the existence of a colonial relationship between the two populations, based on the principles of colonialism. Why Algeria? We have chosen French colonialism in Algeria for the structural basis of our framework for a number of reasons. First, because France, like Israel, denied the colonial char