Summary
Benjamin Netanyahu’s model, in Walid Habbas’s account, of managing the conflict through economic policies that entrenched Palestinian economic dependence on Israel under the guise of two states, and of which Shrinking the conflict is a revised version (Shrinking the Conflict: Debunking Israel’s New Strategy, lines 143, 169).
Details
- Policies put forth through the “economic peace” strategy entrenched Palestinian economic dependence on the Israeli regime while also implementing oppressive military tactics against Palestinians; unlike Shrinking the conflict, it did not include provisions for mitigating Palestinian suffering under military occupation (line 169).
- Its social product, in Habbas’s account: a segment of Palestinian society complicit in the continuation of the status quo — a compliant Palestinian economic elite that worked in tandem with Israeli occupation authorities to violently suppress a defiant Palestinian street (line 169).
- It falls squarely within the framework of the 1994 Paris Protocol; over the five years before the brief, Israeli leadership had done little more than evolve the model within that framework (line 177).
- The Door-to-Door policy works as the model did: a portion of large-scale Palestinian producers are separated from the remainder of Palestinian exporters, who suffer as a result (line 185).
Related pages
Shrinking the Conflict: Debunking Israel’s New Strategy, Shrinking the conflict, Paris Protocol, Benjamin Netanyahu