Connecting with the enemy : a century of Palestinian-Israeli joint nonviolence / Sheila H. Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Sheila H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict--History.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

History.

Jewish-Arab relations.

Reconciliation--Social aspects--Israel.

Reconciliation--Social aspects--Palestine.

Reconciliation.

Social aspects.

Israel.

Physical Description:

xxii, 283 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2016]

Summary:

Thousands of ordinary people in Israel and Palestine have engaged in a dazzling array of daring and visionary joint nonviolent initiatives for more than a century. They have endured despite condemnation by their own societies, repetitive failures of diplomacy, harsh inequalities, and endemic cycles of violence. Connecting with the Enemy presents the first comprehensive history of unprecedented grassroots efforts to forge nonviolent alternatives to the lethal collision of the two national movements. Bringing to light the work of over five hundred groups, Sheila H. Katz describes how Arabs and Jews, children and elders, artists and activists, educators and students, garage mechanics and physicists, and lawyers and prisoners have spoken truth to power, protected the environment, demonstrated peacefully, mourned together, stood in resistance and solidarity, and advocated for justice and security. She also critiques and assesses the significance of their work and explores why these good-will efforts have not yet managed to end the conflict or occupation. This previously untold story of Palestinian-Israeli joint nonviolence will challenge the mainstream narratives of terror and despair, monsters and heroes, that help to perpetuate the conflict. It will also inspire and encourage anyone grappling with social change, peace and war, oppression and inequality, and grassroots activism anywhere in the world.

Contents:

Introduction : subversive encounters

Quotidian contact, new conflict : under the Ottomans, 1880/1918

Opportunities and obstacles : under the British, 1919/1939

Catastrophe and celebration : 1940/1967

The new dialogue : 1967/1980

Grassroots breakthroughs : 1980/1988

First intifada : 1988/1992

In the wake of Oslo : 1992/1999

Suicide bombs and circuses : 2000/2005

Co-resistance : 2005/2008

Missing peace/missing piece : 2009/2010.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 257-266) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Katz, Sheila H., author. Connecting with the enemy

ISBN:

9781477310274

1477310274

9781477310625

1477310622

OCLC:

936256991