"Since the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel's domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule - both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic debates - as temporary, as a state of affairs incidental and external to the Israeli regime. In The One-State Condition, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir directly challenge this belief. Looking closely at the history and contemporary formation of the ruling apparatus - the technologies and operations of the Israeli army, the General Security Services, and the legal system imposed in the Occupied Territories - Azoulay and Ophir outline the one-state condition of Israel/Palestine: the grounding principle of Israeli governance is the perpetuation of differential rule over populations of differing status. Israeli citizenship is shaped through the active denial of Palestinian citizenship and civil rights. Though many Israelis, on both political right and left, agree that the occupation constitutes a problem for Israeli democracy, few ultimately admit that Israel is no democracy or question the very structure of the Israeli regime itself. Too frequently ignored are the lasting effects of the deceptive denial of the events of 1948 and 1967, and the ways in which the resulting occupation has reinforced the sweeping militarization and recent racialization of Israeli society. Azoulay and Ophir show that acknowledgment of the one-state condition is not only a prerequisite for considering a one- or two-state solution; it is a prerequisite for advancing new ideas to move beyond the trap of this false dilemma."--Publisher's description

"Since the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel's domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule - both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic debates - as temporary, as a state of affairs incidental and external to the Israeli regime. In The One-State Condition, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir directly challenge this belief. Looking closely at the history and contemporary formation of the ruling apparatus - the technologies and operations of the Israeli army, the General Security Services, and the legal system imposed in the Occupied Territories - Azoulay and Ophir outline the one-state condition of Israel/Palestine: the grounding principle of Israeli governance is the perpetuation of differential rule over populations of differing status. Israeli citizenship is shaped through the active denial of Palestinian citizenship and civil rights. Though many Israelis, on both political right and left, agree that the occupation constitutes a problem for Israeli democracy, few ultimately admit that Israel is no democracy or question the very structure of the Israeli regime itself. Too frequently ignored are the lasting effects of the deceptive denial of the events of 1948 and 1967, and the ways in which the resulting occupation has reinforced the sweeping militarization and recent racialization of Israeli society. Azoulay and Ophir show that acknowledgment of the one-state condition is not only a prerequisite for considering a one- or two-state solution; it is a prerequisite for advancing new ideas to move beyond the trap of this false dilemma."--Publisher's description

Contents: Introduction / Adi Ophir, Michael Givoni, and Sari Hanafi --The Illegality of the occupation regime : the fabric of law in the occupied Palestinian territory / Orna Ben-Naftali, Aeyal M. Gross, and Keren Michaeli --The occupation's paper trail I / Michal Givoni --The order of violence / Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir --The occupation's paper trail II --The (in)human spatial condition : a visual essay / Ariella Azoulay --Photo dossier I : the architecture of destruction --Where, where to, and when in the occupied territories : an introduction to geography of disaster / Ariel Handel --The occupation's paper trail III --Photo dossier II : types of blockage --From colonization to separation : exploring the structure of Israel's occupation / Neve Gordon --The occupation's paper trail IV --Regimes of separation : Israel/Palestine and the shadow of apartheid / Hilla Dayan --The occupations paper trail V --Photo dossier III : the architecture of separation --The colonial foundations of the state of exception : juxtaposing the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories with colonial bureaucratic history / Yehouda Shenhav and Yael Berda --The occupation's paper trail VI --From domination to destruction : the Palestinian economy under the Israeli occupation / Leila Farsakh --The occupation's paper trail VII --Cultivating dependence : Palestinian agriculture under the Israeli occupation / Caroline Abu-Sada --Photo dossier IV : the architecture of fear/the language of subjugation --The destruction of risk society and the ascendancy of Hamas / Neve Gordon and Dani Filc --The occupation's paper trail VIII --Palestinian refugee camps in the Palestinian territory : territory of exception and locus of resistance / Sari Hanafi --Matrix in Bilʹin : colonial capitalism in the occupied territories / Gadi Algazi --Photo dossier V : textures of destruction --Thanato-tactics / Eyal Weizman --The occupation's paper