Index: Concepts, M

• Mamlachtiut — Ben-Gurion’s term for the civic ethos of the new state, closer to “civic-mindedness” than “statism”, as Dowty presents it.
• Marxism-Leninism — In the PFLP’s Strategy, the revolutionary theory adopted as a basic strategic line for building the party, to be used as a working guide, not a fixed rigid doctrine.
• Matrix of Control — Halper’s term used by Veracini for the systematic ‘matrix of control’ whose separation constituted a colonised Palestinian subjectivity; Halper’s article is the entry point given in note 15.
• Mawat — The Ottoman waste-land category used as the principal legal basis for expropriating Bedouin land in the Naqab.
• Maximalist Zionism — Shapira’s term for Katznelson’s whole-territory claim realised by demographic change, in Amar-Dahl’s account.
• Mega-prison models — Ilan Pappe’s open-prison and maximum-security-prison models for Israeli rule over “citizenless citizens” since 1967.
• Memoricide — Pappe’s term for the erasure of the Nakba’s memory: Hebraized renaming and the JNF’s forests and parks over the destroyed villages, whose signs deny Palestinians ever lived there.
• Messianism — In Lloyd, following Jacqueline Rose: the return-to-Zion tradition secular Zionism could not repress, grounding Israel’s divine or messianic exception.
• Methodological nationalism — Adam Hanieh’s charge that Palestinian state-formation literature treats Palestinian society as self-contained, ignoring the regional political economy internal to it.
• Middle East Peace Process — The Madrid-conceived bilateral negotiations process Razek argues consolidated permanent occupation rather than a just peace.
• Militourism — Teaiwa’s term, as used by Kelly, for the coalescence of militarism and tourism in which military forces ensure the tourist industry’s smooth running while the industry masks the force behind it.
• Minor literature — Deleuze and Guattari’s concept for majority-language writing by a subordinate minority, applied to Shammas’ Arabesques.
• Minyan — The quorum of ten for Jewish public prayer, read by Tucker as the representative structure of Jewish republicanism: a doubly heterogeneous unit whose twelve-to-ten derivation sustains a tension between homogeneity and heterogeneity.
• Mission civilisatrice — The ethos of a European civilising mission to which, for Said, both Balfour’s imperial vision and the Zionist vision belong.
• Mizrahim — Middle Eastern Jews in Israel as a collective category: marginalized under labor Zionism, settled in development towns and former Palestinian homes, and carried to power as Likud voters in 1977.
• Mosquito Procedure — The reported unlawful use of Gazan detainees to detect IEDs, which Debunking the Genocide Allegations calls reprehensible and says must be ended and punished.
• Movements of Resistance — Grinberg’s mo(ve)ments: physical demonstrations of presence by subordinated forces seeking recognition and representation.
• Mowing the Grass — Israel’s twenty-first-century strategy of attrition against non-state groups, in Inbar and Shamir’s 2014 account: periodically destroying enemy capabilities for temporary deterrence and quiet, with no ambition to solve the conflict.
• Multiculturalism — Kymlicka’s model of group-specific rights within common citizenship, judged by Masri the one-state framework most compatible with equality and decolonization.
• Muqawama — The doctrine of resistance of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizballah in Inbar and Shamir’s account: continuous violent resistance keeping the historic struggle alive until Israel disappears.
• Murabitun — Those ‘tied’ or ‘garrisoned’ in the land in steadfast defence, as Palestinian Muslims were presented at AMP’s 2013 youth session in Lybarger.
• Museumification — Rana Barakat’s name for preserving a depopulated Palestinian place as a museum of a dead past, against restoration as repatriation of a lived space through return, in Kelly’s Chapter 5.
• Mutamassirun — Egypt’s permanently resident foreign and minority communities (Greeks, Italians, Armenians, Syrian Christians, Jews), whose privileges decolonization abolished between the 1937 Capitulations abolition and the 1961–62 nationalizations.