Unsettling Gaza
Subtitle: secular liberalism, radical religion, and the Israeli settlement project
By: Joyce Dalsheim.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780199751204
Subjects: Israelis -- Gaza Strip -- Katif Bloc; Judaism and politics -- Israel; Religion and politics; Religious Zionism -- Israel; Radicalism -- Israel; Government, Resistance to -- Israel; Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Peace; Israel -- Politics and government -- 21st century; Katif Bloc (Gaza Strip)
Description: Based on fieldwork in the Jewish settlements in or near the Gaza Strip prior to the Israeli withdrawal, this text examines secular liberalism, religiosity and the complexities of being Israeli. The book holds up a mirror in which the liberal left and the radical right each find themselves reflected in the face of the other.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fundamentally settlers?; title: Disturbing doubling: antagonizing settlers and history in the present; title: Producing absence and habits of blinding vision; title: Disciplining doubt: expressing uncertainty in Gush Katif; title: Twice removed: Mizrahim in Gush Katif; title: The danger of redemption: messianic visions and the potential for nonviolence; title: Unimaginable futures: hospitality, sovereignty, and thinking past territorial nationalism; title: On disturbing categories; title: On demonized Muslims and vilified Jews.