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NORMALIZING OCCUPATION This page intentionally left blank NOR M ALIZING OCCUPATION The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements Edited by Marco Allegra, Ariel Handel, and Erez Maggor Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress . indiana .e du © 2017 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of Amer i ca Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Handel, Ariel, editor | Allegra, Marco, editor. | Maggor, Erez, editor Title: Normalizing occupation : the politics of everyday life in the West Bank settlements / edited by Ariel Handel, Marco Allegra, and Erez Maggor. Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016025307 (print) | LCCN 2016040106 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253024732 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253024886 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253025050 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Land settlement— West Bank. | Jews— West Bank. | Jews— West Bank— Social conditions. | Palestinian Arabs— West Bank— Social conditions. Classification: LCC DS110.W47 N67 2017 (print) | LCC DS110.W47 (ebook) | DDC 956.95/3044— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2016025307 1 2 3 4 5 22 21 20 19 18 17 Contents Acknowl edgments vii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements / Marco Allegra, Ariel Handel, and Erez Maggor 1 Part I— Across the Green Line: Suburbanization, Privatization, and the Settlements 1 The Settlements and the Relationship between Privatization and the Occupation / Danny Gutwein 21 2 Settlement as Suburbanization: The Banality of Colonization / David Newman 34 3 “Outside Jerusalem— Yet so Near”: Ma’ale Adumim, Jerusalem, and the Suburbanization of Israel’s Settlement Policy / Marco Allegra 48 4 Educating Architecture / Miki Kratsman and Ruthie Ginsburg 64 Part II— Between Cities and Outposts: The Heterogeneity of the Settlements and the Settlers 5 Embedded Politics in a West Bank Settlement / Hadas Weiss 75 6 Informal Outposts in the West Bank: Normality in Gray Space / Erez Tzfadia 92 7 Between Ghetto- Politics and Geopolitics: Ultraorthodox Settlements in the West Bank / Lee Cahaner 112 8 Beyond Gush Emunim: On Con temporary Forms of Messianism among Religiously Motivated Settlers in the West Bank / Assaf Harel 128 vi | Contents Part III— Forced Coexistence: Palestinians and Jewish Settlers 9 From Kubaniya to Outpost: A Genealogy of the Palestinian Conceptualization of Jewish Settlement in a Shifting National Context / Honaida Ghanim 151 10 Integrated or Segregated? Israeli- Palestinian Employment Relations in the Settlements / Amir Paz- Fuchs and Yaël Ronen 172 11 Jerusalem’s Colonial Space as Paradox: Palestinians Living in the Settlements / Wendy Pullan and Haim Yacobi 193 Appendix: The Settlements 211 List of Contributors 217 Index 221 Acknowl edgments T he initial impetus for this proj ect was the workshop Settlements in the West Bank (1967–2014): New Perspectives, which was held at the Minerva Humanities Center in Tel Aviv University on June 2014. Our gratitude goes out to the M inerva Humanities Center as well as to the French Research Institute in Jerusalem and the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem for their generous support of the work- shop. We extend our sincere appreciation to the workshop’s participants and audi- ence, and especially to the sessions’ discussants: Ian Lustick, Hadas Weiss, Sandi Kedar, Dani Filc, and Ronen Shamir, who provided impor tant feedback and comments. Rebecca Tolen of Indian University Press displayed g reat confidence in the proj ect even when it was only in its initial stages, and we are indebted to her for helping us getting it off the ground. Also at Indiana University Press, we would like to thank Dee Mortensen, Paige Rasmussen and Jennika Baines for their generous assistance throughout the editing pro cess. We thank Mary C. Ribesky for overseeing the copyediting stage, Alexander Trotter for his help with creating the index, and Alessandro Colombo, who was kind enough to help us in producing the maps. The timely financial support we received from the Depart- ment of Sociology at New York University is also greatly appreciated. Most of all, we are greatly indebted to the book’s contributors, without which this collection would not have been pos si ble. Fi nally, we would like to commemorate the memory of our former col- league, Michael Feige, who was one of the four victims of the terror attack that took place in Tel Aviv on June 8, 2016. Michael, an admired teacher and a re- nowned scholar of Israeli society, was trained at the Hebrew University of Jerusa- lem and taught at Ben- Gurion University, where he most recently served as the head of the Israel Studies program. A scholar of the national- religious settler movement and author of several key studies on Gush Emunim, Michael was among the most vibrant participants of the workshop held at the Minerva Hu- manities Center in 2014; his death came as a shock and represents a great loss for us all. vii This page intentionally left blank Abbreviations CBS— Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics FSU— Former Soviet Union HCJ— Israeli High Court of Justice HRW—H uman Rights Watch IDF— Israeli Defense Forces ILO— International Labor Office JIIS— Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies NLT— Israeli National Labor Tribunal OT— Occupied Territories PNA— Palestinian National Authority WB— West Bank YESHA— Judea Samaria and Gaza Council ix
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