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The “Arab Spring” and the Israel-Palestine conflict : settler colonialism and resistance in the midst of geopolitical upheavals
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Pratt, Nicola Christine (2013) The “Arab Spring” and the Israel-Palestine conflict : settler colonialism and resistance in the midst of geopolitical upheavals. Ortadoğu Etütleri, 5 (1). pp. 9-40.
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Abstract
This article examines the implications of the “Arab Spring” for the Israel-Palestine conflict. It draws on a growing field of critical approaches to consider this question in light of a longer historical trajectory of the Zionist settler colonial project, Palestinian resistance to this project and efforts to pacify this resistance, most recently under the banner of the “Oslo Peace Process”. Therefore, the article rejects mainstream interpretations of the implications of the “Arab Spring” for the Israel-Palestine conflict in terms of either increasing or decreasing the prospects for a negotiated, bilateral settlement based on the Oslo paradigm. Rather, the article argues that the “Arab Spring” constitutes both continuities and discontinuities in the Israel-Palestine conflict: on the one hand, Israel continues and has even intensified its project of settler colonialism; on the other hand, the “Arab Spring” has given impetus to a new movement of Palestinians resisting Israeli occupation and Palestinian dispossession that operates beyond the Oslo paradigm of liberal peacemaking. Whilst the “Arab Spring” heralds the end of the already defunct Oslo Peace Process, it simultaneously highlights the necessity for a more just approach to peace making in Israel/Palestine.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Ortadoğu Etütleri | ||||||
| Publisher: | Orsam | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1309-1557 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 13 July 2013 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 5 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 9-40 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
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