Connecting with the enemy
Subtitle: a century of Palestinian-Israeli joint nonviolence
By: Sheila H. Katz
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781477310274; 9781477310625
Subjects: Reconciliation; History; Jewish-Arab relations; Arab-Israeli conflict
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( pages 257-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : subversive encounters; title: Quotidian contact, new conflict : under the Ottomans, 1880/1918; title: Opportunities and obstacles : under the British, 1919/1939; title: Catastrophe and celebration : 1940/1967; title: The new dialogue : 1967/1980; title: Grassroots breakthroughs : 1980/1988; title: First intifada : 1988/1992; title: In the wake of Oslo : 1992/1999; title: Suicide bombs and circuses : 2000/2005; title: Co-resistance : 2005/2008; title: Missing peace/missing piece : 2009/2010.