Justice for Some This page intentionally left blank J U S T I C E F O R S O M E Law and the Question of Palestine N o u r a E r a k a t Stanford University Press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Erakat, Noura, author. Title: Justice for some : law and the question of Palestine / Noura Erakat. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018054406 (print) | LCCN 2018055966 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503608832 (electronic) | ISBN 9780804798259 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Palestine—International status—History. | Palestinian Arabs— Legal status, laws, etc.—History. | Israel-Arab War, 1967— Occupied territories. | Arab-Israeli conflict—History. Classification: LCC KZ4282 (ebook) | LCC KZ4282 .E73 2019 (print) | DDC 956.04—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018054406 Designed by Kevin Barrett Kane Typeset at Stanford University Press in 10/15 Adobe Caslon Cover design by Kevin Barrett Kane Cover Art: The Balfour Declaration, 1917 For my parents, Nahla, Saleh, and Asmahan This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Maps ix Preface xi Introduction 1 1 Colonial Erasures 23 2 Permanent Occupation 61 3 Pragmatic Revolutionaries 95 4 The Oslo Peace Process 135 5 From Occupation to Warfare 175 Conclusion 211 Acknowledgments 243 Notes 247 Index 313 This page intentionally left blank MAPS League of Nations Mandate System, 1922 36 Plan of Partition, 1947 47 Armistice Lines, 1949 53 Occupied Territories, June 1967 66 Allon Plan, 1967 89 Oslo Accord–West Bank Areas A, B, and C, 2000 169 Access Restrictions, 2017 212