Unsilencing Gaza : reflections on resistance

Author/Creator:

Roy, Sara, author

Publication/Creation:

London, UK : Pluto Press, [2021]

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Unsilencing Gaza : reflections on resistance / Sara Roy

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Economic history
Gaza Strip--Economic conditions--21st century

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction: “I can’t eat my lights” -- PART I - SETTING THE STAGE FOR CONFLICT IN GAZA: US POLICY FAILURES REDUX -- 1. Yes, You Can Work With Hamas: The US Approach to the Palestinian Territories is Inviting Disaster (July 17, 2007) -- 2. US Foreign Policy and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: A View From Palestine (September 2011) -- PART II - THE MARGINALIZED CENTER: THE WARS ON GAZA AND THEIR AFTERMATH -- 3. If Gaza Falls … (January 1, 2009) -- 4. Endgame in the Gaza War? (January 4, 2009) -- 5. Degrees of Loss (October 8, 2010) -- 6. Gaza After the Revolution (March 16, 2011) -- 7. It’s Worth Putting Hamas to the Test (January 6, 2012) -- 8. Before Gaza, After Gaza: Examining the New Reality in Israel/Palestine (2013) -- PART III - TOWARD PRECARITY: EXCEPTIONALIZING GAZA -- 9. Statement on Gaza before the United Nations Security Council (July 20, 2015) -- 10. Humanitarianism in Gaza: What Not to Do (Summer 2015) -- 11. The Gaza Strip’s Last Safety Net is in Danger (August 6, 2015) -- PART - IV UNDOING ATTACHMENT: CREATING SPACES OF EXCESS -- 12. Yes, They Are Refugees (March 22, 2018) -- 13. Floating in an Inch of Water: A Letter from Gaza (2018) -- 14. “I wish they would just disappear” (December 2018) -- PART V - A JEW IN GAZA: REFLECTIONS -- 15. A Jewish Plea (April 7, 2007) -- 16. A Response to Elie Wiesel (September 9, 2014) -- 17. Hunger (June 9, 2017) -- 18. Book Review, Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities (September 2018) -- 19. On Equating BDS with Anti-Semitism: A Letter to the Members of the German Government (June 4, 2019) -- 20. Tears of Salt: A Brief Reflection on Israel, Palestine and the Coronavirus (published here for the first time) -- PART VI - THE PASSING OF A GENERATION: COMMEMORATING COURAGEOUS PALESTINIAN VOICES -- 21. A Tribute to Eyad el-Sarraj (Spring 2014) -- 22. Remembering Naseer Aruri (2015) -- PART VII - THE PAST AS FUTURE: LESSONS FORGOTTEN -- 23. Gaza: Out of Sight (Autumn 1987; published here in English for the first time) -- 24. When a Loaf of Bread Was Not Enough: Unsilencing the Past in Gaza (published here for the first time) -- PART VIII - BETWEEN PRESENCE AND ABSENCE: PALESTINE AND THE ANTILOGIC OF DISPOSABILITY - CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS -- 25. An Unacceptable Absence: Countering Gaza’s Exceptionalism (published here for the first time) -- Epilogue: On the Falseness of Distinctions - “We are no different than you” (2014) -- Notes -- Index.

Summary:

Gaza, the centre of Palestinian nationalism and resistance to the occupation, is the linchpin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the key to its resolution. Since 2005, Israel has deepened the isolation of the territory, severing it almost completely from its most vital connections to the West Bank, Israel and beyond, and has deliberately shattered its economy, transforming Palestinians from a people with political rights into a humanitarian problem. Sara Roy unpacks this process, looking at US foreign policy towards the Palestinians, as well as analysing the trajectory of Israeli policy toward Gaza, which became a series of punitive approaches meant not only to contain the Hamas regime but weaken Gazan society. Roy also reflects on Gaza's ruination from a Jewish perspective and discusses the connections between Gaza's history and her own as a child of Holocaust survivors. This book, a follow up from the renowned Failing Peace, comes from one of the world's most acclaimed writers on the region.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 278 pages)

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Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937657732002486

ISBN:

9781786808257 (e-book)
9780745341361 (hbk.)
9780745341378 (pbk.)