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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825573903321

Autore

Robinson Shira N.

Titolo

Citizen Strangers : Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State / / Shira N. Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020]

©2013

ISBN

0-8047-8802-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Collana

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

Disciplina

323.1192/74009/045

Soggetti

Israel -- Politics and government -- 1948-1967

Palestinian Arabs - Civil rights - 1948-1967 - Israel

Palestinian Arabs - Legal status, laws, etc - Israel

Citizenship - Government policy - Israel

Land settlement - Government policy - Israel

Jews - Colonization - Palestine

Arab-Israeli conflict

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS AND TRANSLITERATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. FROM SETTLERS TO SOVEREIGNS -- 2. THE FORMATION OF THE LIBERAL SETTLER STATE -- 3. CITIZENSHIP AS A CATEGORY OF EXCLUSION -- 4. SPECTACLES OF SOVEREIGNTY -- 5. BOTH CITIZENS AND STRANGERS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they nonetheless found their movement, employment, and civil rights restricted by a draconian military government put in place to facilitate the colonization of their lands. Citizen Strangers traces how Jewish leaders struggled to advance their historic settler project while forced by new international human rights norms to share political power with the very people they sought



to uproot. For the next two decades Palestinians held a paradoxical status in Israel, as citizens of a formally liberal state and subjects of a colonial regime. Neither the state campaign to reduce the size of the Palestinian population nor the formulation of citizenship as a tool of collective exclusion could resolve the government's fundamental dilemma: how to bind indigenous Arab voters to the state while denying them access to its resources. More confounding was the tension between the opposing aspirations of Palestinian political activists. Was it the end of Jewish privilege they were after, or national independence along with the rest of their compatriots in exile? As Shira Robinson shows, these tensions in the state's foundation—between privilege and equality, separatism and inclusion—continue to haunt Israeli society today.