02930nam 2200601 a 450 991081570560332120231212221541.01-78371-589-81-84964-326-1(CKB)1000000000802686(StDuBDS)AH22933614(SSID)ssj0000412985(PQKBManifestationID)11270695(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412985(PQKBWorkID)10369630(PQKB)11687623(MiAaPQ)EBC3386249(Au-PeEL)EBL3386249(CaPaEBR)ebr10479751(CaONFJC)MIL987760(OCoLC)654104856(EXLCZ)99100000000080268620061006d2006 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrBlood and religion the unmasking of the Jewish and democratic state /Jonathan CookLondon ;Ann Arbor, Mich. Pluto Press20061 online resource (248 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-2555-6 0-7453-2556-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.What does Israel hope to achieve with its recent withdrawal from Gaza and the building of a 700km wall around the West Bank? Jonathan Cook, who has reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the Second Intifada, presents a lucid account of the Jewish state's motives. The heart of the issue, he argues, is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians - Israel's own Palestinian citizens and those in the Occupied Territories - become a majority. Inevitable comparisons with apartheid in South Africa will be drawn.The book charts Israel's increasingly desperate responses to its predicament including military repression of Palestinian dissent on both sides of the Green Line; accusations that Israel's Palestinian citizens and the Palestinian Authority are secretly conspiring to subvert the Jewish state from within; a ban on marriages between Israel's Palestinian population and Palestinians living under occupation to prevent a right of return 'through the back door'; the redrawing of the Green Line to create an expanded, fortress state where only Jewish blood and Jewish religion count.Arab-Israeli conflict1993-Palestinian ArabsIsraelAl-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005IsraelPolitics and government1993-IsraelEthnic relationsArab-Israeli conflictPalestinian ArabsAl-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005.956.05/3Cook Jonathan1965-1649628MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815705603321Blood and religion3998466UNINA