State Practices And Zionist Images

by Wesley, David A.

• ISBN13: 9781845450588
• ISBN10: 1845450582
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction between Arab local authorities, their Jewish neighbors, and the agencies of the national government in regard to developing local and regional industrial areas. The author avoids reduction to simple models of binary domination, revealing instead a complex, multi-dimensional field of relations and ever-shifting lines of political maneuver and confrontation. He examines the prevailing concept of ethnic traditionalism and argues that the image of Arab traditionalism erects imaginary boundaries around the Arab localities, making government incursion disappear from view, while underpinning and rationalizing the exclusion of the Arab towns from development planning. Moreover, he shows how images of environmental protection mesh with and support such exclusion. The study includes a chronology of events, tables, maps, and photographs.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
List of Tables	vii
Foreword by Emanuel Marx	ix
Acknowledgments	xii
Abbreviations	xv
Introduction: An Ethnography of Macro-order Power Relations	1	(16)
1 The Lay of the Land (I): The Territorial Demon	17	(24)
2 The Lay of the Land (II): Urban Drive and the Arab Towns	41	(38)
3 The Zipporit Industrial Area	79	(28)
4 Land, Territory, and Jurisdiction: The Experience of Land Loss	107	(27)
5 The Image of Arab Traditionalism	134	(17)
6 The Appropriation of Arab Development Needs and Potential	151	(17)
7 Attempts to Break Through the Boundaries	168	(21)
Conclusion	189	(9)
Chronology of Events	198	(11)
Notes	209	(16)
Glossary: Locality and Related Terms	225	(2)
References	227	(15)
Legislation Cited	242	(2)
Subject Index	244	(11)
Selected Author Index	255