Brynjar Lia. A Police Force without a State: A History of the Palestinian Security Forces in the West Bank and Gaza. Reading, UK: Ithaca Press, 2006. 479 pages, Hardcover US$39.90 ISBN 978-086373056 - Brynjar Lia. Building Arafat’s Police: The Politics of International Police Assistance in the Palestinian Territories after the Oslo Agreement. Reading: Ithaca Press, 2007. 362 pages, Hardcover US$39.90 ISBN 978-0863723049

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-207
Author(s):  
Leila Farsakh
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Police Force ◽  
The West ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
History Of ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Oslo Agreement

Water Rights in the West Bank and in Gaza

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
BIRGIT SCHLÜTTER
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
International Law ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
The West ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
The World ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
International Decade

With the launch of the UN International Decade for Water on 22 March 2005, awareness is raised in the international community of the growing demand and scarcity of water for people throughout the world. Water is a particularly scarce resource in both Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The use of the water resources of the West Bank and Gaza has been part and parcel of the Israeli–Palestinian peace negotiations. With the beginning of new peace negotiations under Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, the topic of water and its allocation to Palestinians and Israelis is back on the negotiation table. The present article will point to the water crisis in Israel and the Palestinian Territories and analyse core provisions of international law which govern the use of water resources. Finally, it will outline how an allocation of water rights according to principles of international law could take place.

The Real Meaning of the Hebron Agreement

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Edward W. Said
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Information Campaign ◽  
The West ◽  
The Real ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Hype

This essay argues that despite the media hype that surrounded the January 1997 signing of the Hebron protocol, the agreement has done nothing to alter Israel's de facto control over the West Bank and Gaza and in fact demonstrates the Palestinian Authority's acquiescence in continuing Israeli sovereignty. Meanwhile, the media have remained silent about the continuing deterioration of daily life in the Palestinian territories. The author proposes that Palestinians themselves can help to end this silence by organizing an information campaign to expose the inequalities of life in the West Bank and Gaza.

Rethinking Palestine: settler-colonialism, neo-liberalism and individualism in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamil Hilal
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Palestinian Authority ◽  
The West ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Settler Colonization ◽  
The Impact

The 1967 occupied Palestinian territories have undergone three major types of development since the Oslo agreement between the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Israel was signed in 1993 and the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994. These developments have brought far-reaching structural changes in Palestinian politics and society. They have rendered Palestinian communities – inside historic Palestine and outside - very vulnerable, and made collective action against collective colonial repression (including a third intifada) more difficult. The three developments are identified as: the emergence of a political discourse that evicts Palestinians from history and geography and denies them a national identity; the escalation of collective repression, and settler-colonization; and the localization of Palestinian politics and the atomization of Palestinian society (in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and probably elsewhere) under the impact of settler-colonialism and neo-liberalism.

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