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Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
written by Noura Erakat, 1980- (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 349 page(s)
Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destruction during Is...
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written by Noura Erakat, 1980- (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 349 page(s)
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Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destruction during Israel's military offensives in the Gaza Strip. The Oslo Accord's two-state solution is now dead letter.Justice for Some offers a new app...
Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destruction during Israel's military offensives in the Gaza Strip. The Oslo Accord's two-state solution is now dead letter.Justice for Some offers a new approach to understanding the Palestinian struggle for freedom, told through the power and control of international law. Focusing on key junctures—from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to present-day wars in Gaza—Noura Erakat shows how the strategic deployment of law has shaped current conditions. Over the past century, the law has done more to advance Israel's interests than the Palestinians'. But, Erakat argues, this outcome was never inevitable.Law is politics, and its meaning and application depend on the political intervention of states and people alike. Within the law, change is possible. International law can serve the cause of freedom when it is mobilized in support of a political movement. Presenting the promise and risk of international law, Justice for Some calls for renewed action and attention to the Question of Palestine.
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Global Issues
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Book
Author / Creator
Noura Erakat, 1980-
Date Published / Released
2019
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Stanford University Press
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General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria Borders, War, Military occupation, International laws, Arab-Israeli War, 1948, Six Day War, June 5-10, 1967, Arabs, Israelis, Palestinians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Report on Expellee Problem in the US Zone, 1947
in Records of U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II (RG260), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (1945), The Public Safety Branch: Records Relating to the Fire Service Commission, 1945-49. Display of Flags Thru Check on Transit Travelers in British Zone, Refugee & Expellee Problems Transfer of Populations , 46 page(s)
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in Records of U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II (RG260), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (1945), The Public Safety Branch: Records Relating to the Fire Service Commission, 1945-49. Display of Flags Thru Check on Transit Travelers in British Zone, Refugee & Expellee Problems Transfer of Populations , 46 page(s)
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1945
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
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EU and its Borders, Internal and External, Germany and its Borders, Military occupation, Refugees, Politics & Policy, Geography, Germans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Studies in International Governance, Syria, Press Framing, and the Responsibility to Protect
written by Tom Pierre Najem, Walter E. Soderlund and E. Donald Briggs, in Studies in International Governance (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017), 241 page(s)
The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of World War II, sending shock waves through Syria, its neighbours, and the European Union. Calls for the international community to intervene in the conflict, in compliance with the UN-sanctioned Responsibility to Protect (R2P), occurr...
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written by Tom Pierre Najem, Walter E. Soderlund and E. Donald Briggs, in Studies in International Governance (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017), 241 page(s)
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The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of World War II, sending shock waves through Syria, its neighbours, and the European Union. Calls for the international community to intervene in the conflict, in compliance with the UN-sanctioned Responsibility to Protect (R2P), occurred from the outset and became even more pronounced following President Assad's use of chemical weapons against civilians in August 2013...
The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of World War II, sending shock waves through Syria, its neighbours, and the European Union. Calls for the international community to intervene in the conflict, in compliance with the UN-sanctioned Responsibility to Protect (R2P), occurred from the outset and became even more pronounced following President Assad's use of chemical weapons against civilians in August 2013. Despite that egregious breach of international convention, no humanitarian intervention was forthcoming, leaving critics to argue that UN inertia early in the conflict contributed to the current crisisSyria, Press Framing, and The Responsibility to Protect examines the role of the media in framing the Syrian conflict, their role in promoting or, on the contrary, discouraging a robust international intervention. The media sources examined are all considered influential with respect to the shaping of elite views, either directly on political leaders or indirectly through their influence on public opinion. The volume provides a review of the arguments concerning appropriate international responses to events in Syria and how they were framed in leading newspapers in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada during the crucial early years of the conflict; considers how such media counsel affected the domestic contexts in which American and British decisions were made not to launch forceful interventions following Assad's use of sarin gas in 2013; and offers reasoned speculation on the relevance of R2P in future humanitarian crises in light of the failure to protect Syrian civilians.
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Field of Study
World History
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Book
Author / Creator
Tom Pierre Najem, Walter E. Soderlund, E. Donald Briggs
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Series
Studies in International Governance
Topic / Theme
General Context: Security Issues, Syria (2011 - Present), Military occupation, Military aid, Journalism, Civil war, Public opinion, Syrian Civil War, 2011-, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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