The One State Condition: Rhetoric and Reality in Israel/Palestine

Academics look at the exact nature of contemporary Israel and Palestine

Joseph Dana

Nov 29, 2012 

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The One State Condition: Rhetoric and Reality in Israel/Palestine
Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir
Stanford University Press
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The road connecting Ramallah and Jerusalem, with its physical manifestations of Israel's occupation that impossibly blend into the otherwise serene landscape, is a stark testament to Israel's control over the West Bank. The cold grey concrete of the separation barrier, the patrolling military jeeps and horribly ill-kept roads constitute an alien but seemingly permanent fixture of the modern Holy Land. The road is a representation of the facts on the ground, devoid of the ideological contortions employed by the majority of pundits and journalists to conceal the exact nature of contemporary Israel and the Palestinian Territories.