A Wall In Palestine

Author : René Backmann
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1429953705
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wall in Palestine written by René Backmann and published by Picador. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West Bank Barrier is expected to be completed in 2010. Declared illegal by the United Nations International Court of Justice, this network of concrete walls, trenches, and barbed-wire fences could permanently redraw one of the most disputed property lines in the Middle East--the Green Line that separates Israel and the West Bank. To Israel the "security fence" is intended to keep Palestinian terrorists from entering its territory. But to Palestinians the "apartheid wall" that sliced through orchards and houses, and cuts off family members from one another, is a land grab. In this comprehensive book, Backmann not only addresses the barrier's impact on ordinary citizens, but how it will shape the future of the Middle East. Though it promises security to an Israeli population weary of terrorism, it also is responsible for the widespread destruction of Palestinian homes and farmland; with its Byzantine checkpoint regulations, it has also severely crippled the Palestinian economy; and, most urgent, the barrier often deviates from the Green Line, appropriating thousands of acres of land, effectively redrawing the boundary between the West Bank and Israel. Backmann interviews Israeli policy makers, politicians, and military personnel, as well as Palestinians living throughout the West Bank, telling the stories not only of the barrier's architects, but also of those who must reckon with it on a day-to-day basis on the ground. With bold, brilliant, and often impassioned reportage, A Wall in Palestine renders the West Bank Barrier--its purpose, its efficacy, its consequences--as no book before.

Author : William Parry
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569768587
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against the Wall written by William Parry and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning book of photographs captures the graffiti and art that have transformed Israel's wall into a living canvas of resistance and solidarity. Featuring the work of artists Banksy, Ron English, Blu, and others, as well as Palestinian artists and activists, these photographs express outrage, compassion, and touching humor. They illustrate the wall's toll on lives and livelihoods, showing the hardship it has brought to tens of thousands of people, preventing their access to work, education, and vital medical care. Mixed with the images are portraits and vignettes, offering a heartfelt and inspiring account of a people determined to uphold their dignity in the face of profound injustice.

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565849907
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against the Wall written by Michael Sorkin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the political, social, and economic ramifications of the "security fence" annex currently under construction in the West Bank.

Author : Michael Sfard
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250122708
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wall and the Gate written by Michael Sfard and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A farmer from a village in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his olive groves by the construction of Israel’s controversial separation wall, asked Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard to petition the courts to allow a gate to be built in the wall. While the gate would provide immediate relief for the farmer, would it not also confer legitimacy on the wall and on the court that deems it legal? The defense of human rights is often marked by such ethical dilemmas, which are especially acute in Israel, where lawyers have for decades sought redress for the abuse of Palestinian rights in the country’s High Court―that is, in the court of the abuser. [This book] chronicles this struggle―a story that has never before been fully told― and in the process engages the core principles of human rights legal ethics. [The author] recounts the unfolding of key cases and issues, ranging from confiscation of land, deportations, the creation of settlements, punitive home demolitions, torture, and targeted killings―all actions considered violations of international law. In the process, he lays bare the reality of the occupation and the lives of the people who must contend with that reality. He also exposes the surreal legal structures that have been erected to put a stamp of lawfulness on an extensive program of dispossession. Finally, he weighs the success of the legal effort, reaching conclusions that are no less paradoxical than the fight itself."--

Author : Mark Thomas
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407030701
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extreme Rambling written by Mark Thomas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Good fences make good neighbours, but what about bad ones?' The Israeli separation barrier is probably the most iconic divider of land since the Berlin Wall. It has been declared illegal under international law and its impact on life in the West Bank has been enormous. Mark Thomas - as only he could - decided the only way to really get to grips with this huge divide was to use the barrier as a route map, to 'walk the wall', covering the entire distance with little more in his armoury than Kendal Mint Cake and a box of blister plasters. In the course of his ramble he was tear-gassed, stoned, sunburned, rained on and hailed on and even lost the wall a couple of times. But thankfully he was also welcomed and looked after by Israelis and Palestinians - from farmers and soldiers to smugglers and zookeepers - and finally earned a unique insight of the real Middle East in all its entrenched and yet life-affirming glory. And all without hardly ever getting arrested!

Author : Olivia Kiang-Snaije
Publisher : Saqi Books - Saqi Books
ISBN 13 : 9780863567599
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keep Your Eye on the Wall written by Olivia Kiang-Snaije and published by Saqi Books - Saqi Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful, unique and beautifully produced - an insightful and thought-provoking critique of the Wall around Palestine.

Author : Ray Dolphin
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The West Bank Wall written by Ray Dolphin and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-the-minute analysis of the impact of the Wall with an introduction by leading journalist Graham Usher.

Author : Ben White
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745337623
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cracks in the Wall written by Ben White and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp analysis of the widening cracks in Israel's traditional pillars of support.

Author : Reece Jones
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848138261
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Border Walls written by Reece Jones and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting *** Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing total of 5,700 kilometers of security barriers. In this groundbreaking work, Reece Jones analyzes how these controversial border security projects were justified in their respective countries, what consequences these physical barriers have on the lives of those living in these newly securitized spaces, and what long-term effects the hardening of political borders will have in these societies and globally. Border Walls is a bold, important intervention that demonstrates that the exclusion and violence necessary to secure the borders of the modern state often undermine the very ideals of freedom and democracy the barriers are meant to protect.

Author : Dr Cédric Parizot
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 147244888X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israelis and Palestinians in the Shadows of the Wall written by Dr Cédric Parizot and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding light on the recent mutations of the Israeli separation policy, whose institutional and spatial configurations are increasingly complex, this book argues that this policy has actually reinforced the interconnectedness of Israelis and Palestinian lives and their spaces. Instead of focusing on the over-mediatized separation wall, this book deals with what it hides: its shadows. Based on fieldwork studies carried out by French, Italians, Israelis, Palestinian and Swiss researchers on the many sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, it highlights a new geography of occupation, specific forms of interconnectedness and power relations between Israeli and Palestinian spaces.