Justice For Some: Law And The Question Of Palestine

349 Pages·2019·5.702 MB·English

by  Noura Erakat

Justice for Some
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J U S T I C E
F O R
S O M E
Law and the Question of Palestine
N o u r a E r a k a t
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
© 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Erakat, Noura, author.
Title: Justice for some : law and the question of Palestine / Noura Erakat.
Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018054406 (print) | LCCN 2018055966 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781503608832 (electronic) | ISBN 9780804798259 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Palestine—International status—History. | Palestinian Arabs—
Legal status, laws, etc.—History. | Israel-Arab War, 1967—
Occupied territories. | Arab-Israeli conflict—History.
Classification: LCC KZ4282 (ebook) | LCC KZ4282 .E73 2019 (print) |
DDC 956.04—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018054406
Designed by Kevin Barrett Kane
Typeset at Stanford University Press in 10/15 Adobe Caslon
Cover design by Kevin Barrett Kane
Cover Art: The Balfour Declaration, 1917
For my parents,
Nahla, Saleh, and Asmahan
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CONTENTS
Maps ix
Preface xi

Introduction 1
1
Colonial Erasures 23
2
Permanent Occupation 61
3
Pragmatic Revolutionaries 95
4
The Oslo Peace Process 135
5
From Occupation to Warfare 175
Conclusion 211
Acknowledgments 243
Notes 247
Index 313
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MAPS
League of Nations Mandate System, 1922 36
Plan of Partition, 1947 47
Armistice Lines, 1949 53
Occupied Territories, June 1967 66
Allon Plan, 1967 89
Oslo Accord–West Bank Areas A, B, and C, 2000 169
Access Restrictions, 2017 212