Summary
Ilan Pappe’s terms in Chapter 3 of For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group for the two models by which, he argues, the Israeli settler state has ruled millions of “citizenless citizens” since 1967: an open prison model allowing movement inside Palestinian areas under military and Civil Administration control, and a maximum-security prison model imposed punitively when Palestinians resist (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.72-75).
Details
- The open prison model prevailed in 1967-1987, again in 1993-2000 as the Oslo Accords model — “far less open that its predecessor” (as printed) — and for Areas A and B since 2004, each new model worse than the last as long-term punishment for resisting (PDF p.73).
- The maximum-security model prevailed in 1987-1993, after the second uprising, and in Gaza after Hamas took over in 2006, where Pappe argues it has turned into a ghetto with Israel rationing food and calories (PDF p.74-75).
- Pappe argues the two-state solution should be revisited as an open prison model, in favour of one democratic state for all in the whole of historical Palestine (PDF p.75).
Related pages
For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, Ilan Pappe, Settler Colonialism, Oslo Accords