“. . . published the Road Map to Peace. The premise of this plan, as the Palestinian historians Samih Farsoun and Naseer Aruri point out, "is that the nearly forty-year-old impasse is not caused by an abnormal and illegal occupation but by the Palestinian resistance to that occupation. Progress was thus linked to ending the intifada and all acts of resistance rather than ending the occupation or reversing decades of colonial impoverishment of land, resource, and institutions.” WarOccupationColonialismBiasPalestinePeace Process Author:Saree Makdisi
“What draws me to Palestine, then, is neither nationalism not patriotism, but my sense of justice, my refusal to remain silent in the face of injustice, my unwillingness to just go on living my life -- and enjoying the privileges of a tenured university professor – while trying to block out and ignore what Wordsworth once called the still, sad music of humanity.” WarOccupationPalestine Book:Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation Source: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
“Israel maintains its pressure on the Palestinian population not simply for its own security, then, but because such pressure has for four decades enabled it to maintain control over the territories- and, quite simply, because it encourages Palestinians to leave.” WarOccupationPalestine Book:Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation Source: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
“As far as the Israelis were concerned, then, the limited implementation of the Oslo Accords amounted, essentially, to little more than a new form of occupation, enabling the perpetual deferral of the core issues of the conflict.” OccupationColonialismPalestineApartheidZionismHamasIslamismOslo Book:Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation Source: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation