Summary
Shir Hever’s closing alternative for Palestinian resistance: to exploit the weakness Zionist colonial practices brought upon Israeli society to seek a political path to inclusion, based on grassroots protest, international solidarity and non-violent action, recruiting dissatisfied groups within Israeli society and reconnecting with the Palestinian citizens of Israel (Exploitation of Palestinian Labour in Contemporary Zionist Colonialism, PDF p.8 / printed p.131).
Details
- The rejected alternative is the traditional route of state-building, through military struggle or diplomatic efforts, establishing a partially independent economy based on internal exploitation and strong local elites, which Hever judges unlikely to redress the economic injustice accumulated over many decades (PDF p.8).
- The inclusion path is much more revolutionary and will doubtlessly be resisted by Palestinian elites, but has the potential to begin redressing not only political injustice, but also the economic injustice which plagues Palestine (PDF p.8).
- The occasion is the 2011 Israeli Social Protests and the internal gaps produced by exploitation and dispossession seeping inwards (PDF p.7-8).
Related pages
Exploitation of Palestinian Labour in Contemporary Zionist Colonialism, 2011 Israeli Social Protests, Exploitation and Dispossession