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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816955903321

Autore

Hajjar Lisa <1961->

Titolo

Courting conflict [[electronic resource] ] : the Israeli military court system in the West Bank and Gaza / / Lisa Hajjar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

9786612357893

1-59734-556-3

1-282-35789-1

0-520-93798-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

343.5695/30143

Soggetti

Military courts - West Bank

Military courts - Gaza Strip

War and emergency powers - Israel

Rule of law - Israel

Palestinian Arabs - Civil rights

Israel-Arab War, 1967 - Occupied territories

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A political geography of law and conflict -- Legal discourses and the conflict in Israel/Palestine -- Going to court -- The face and arms of military justice -- The politics of language -- Cause lawyering and national conflict -- Political subjects, legal objects -- A suq of deals.

Sommario/riassunto

Israel's military court system, a centerpiece of Israel's apparatus of control in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. This authoritative book provides a rare look at an institution that lies both figuratively and literally at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lisa Hajjar has conducted in-depth interviews with dozens of Israelis and Palestinians-including judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, defendants, and translators-about their experiences and practices to explain how this system functions, and how its functioning has affected the conflict. Her lucid, richly detailed, and theoretically sophisticated study highlights the



array of problems and debates that characterize Israel's military courts as it asks how the law is deployed to protect and further the interests of the Israeli state and how it has been used to articulate and defend the rights of Palestinians living under occupation.