War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification - Brossura

Halper, Jeff

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ISBN 10: 074533430X ISBN 13: 9780745334301

Casa editrice: Pluto Press, 2015

Riassunto

Long-awaited, War Against the People is a powerful indictment of the Israeli state’s “securocratic” war in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper draws on firsthand research to show the pernicious effects of the subliminal form of unending warfare conducted by Israel, an approach that relies on sustaining fear among the populace, fear that is stoked by suggestions that the enemy is inside the city limits, leaving no place truly safe and justifying the intensification of military action and militarization in everyday life. Eventually, Halper shows, the integration of militarized systems—including databases tracking civilian activity, automated targeting systems, unmanned drones, and more—becomes seamless with everyday life. And the Occupied Territories, Halper argues, is a veritable laboratory for that approach.
 
Halper goes on to show how this method of war is rapidly globalizing, as the major capitalist powers and corporations transform militaries, security agencies, and police forces into an effective instrument of global pacification. Simultaneously a deeply researched exposé and a clarion call, War Against the People is a bold attempt to shine the light on the daily injustices visited on a civilian population —and thus hasten their end.
 

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This is an important book for anyone who cares about peace, the plight of the Palestinian people and the role of Israel in the world of war. Halper s fascinating book places the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories at the heart of its role in the transnational military industrial complex and what he calls the pacification industry. A brave, analytical and innovative book from an admirable activist and thinker. (Andrew Feinstein author The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade")

War Against the People is not only a key to deciphering Israeli policies in Palestine, but also one of the clearest explanations that I have ever read on how important Israel/Palestine is in the world. It addresses with clarity and structure one of the most complex and yet extremely important topics of the securitisation of our society. His book has opened my eyes, and was a fascinating read. (Shir Hever, author of The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation (Pluto, 2010))

Halper's essay on Israel's 'matrix of control is classic, even canonical. Now, in War Against the People, he radicalises the argument to develop a deeply disturbing vision of what he calls 'securocratic wars in global battlespace'... a rare combination of theoretical imagination, empirical sensitivity and political passion. (Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, and author of The Colonial Present (Wiley, 2004))

In this cogently written and extremely informative book, Jeff Halper explores Israel's key role in the 'global pacification industry'. The resulting alliances not only enable Israel to perpetuate the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; the latter's function as a human laboratory for Israel's 'matrix of control' additionally make the occupation indispensable to Israel's security industry and global positioning. War Against the People is an excellent, revealing and accessible examination of Israel's 'security politics' and the changing nature of pacification worldwide in the twenty-first century. --Mouin Rabbani, Senior Fellow with the Institute for Palestine Studies and co-editor of Jadaliyya

A brilliant book whose depth of political insight is driven by the spirit of one of the world s most inspiring political activists. It lays out the way in which Israel s war on the Palestinians has become both a model and the laboratory for a global war against the people. --Eyal Weizman, Professor of Visual and Spatial Cultures and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London

This profoundly important and well-researched study serves as a reminder that US-backed Israeli militarism and its devastating humanitarian impact is neither unique nor can it be seen in isolation. Halper convincingly argues that it is part of an even more disturbing global phenomenon that goes well beyond Israel and which threatens the lives and civil liberties not just of Palestinians, but of people around the world. --Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies, University of San Francisco

L'autore:

Jeff Halper is a leading figure in the Israeli peace movement, the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and an anthropologist. He is the author ofAn Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel (Pluto, 2010) andObstacles to Peace (2005).

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• Editore: Pluto Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 074533430X
• ISBN 13: 9780745334301
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352