Largely invisible to Israelis, the pre-1967 borders profoundly shape the lives and hopes of Palestinians. by TAMIR SOREK "Israel Green Lines" from Wikipedia user, Ynhockey (licensed under Creative Commons). In 1949 the lines on the map of the Armistice Agreements between newly-established Israel and its …
How Israel controls and contains the Palestinians within its borders. by LALEH KHALILI I wrote Time in the Shadows in order to puzzle out why the counterinsurgency practices of enormously powerful state militaries—the US and Israel at the time I was writing the book—so often …
The restriction of Palestinian movement in Gaza and elsewhere has long been a central tactic of the Israeli occupation. by ILANA FELDMAN During the latest Israeli assault on Gaza considerable media coverage has been given to the Israeli tactic of calling people a few minutes …
With Israeli forces besieging Gaza again, Western ambivalence is inexcusable. by LORI ALLEN A fence encircling Gaza, taken in 2005. The no-man’s-land that surrounds the entrance to the Gaza Strip from Israel is a surreal space. Most of the time, it is a hot, flat, …
