The Biggest Prison on Earth

A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories

Ilan Pappe

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Year: 2017
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781780744339
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

In this comprehensive survey of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe exposes the history of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts.

Locating the occupation within a wider historical context that stretches back to 1948, Pappe dismisses the conventional view that the 1967 war emerged out of the blue, 'forcing' Israel to occupy the contentious territories. Using recently declassified archival material, Pappe analyzes the establishment of legal and security infrastructures that were put in place to control the population, revealing harsh oppression that was never advertised in international headlines, and which passed without any substantial Palestinian resistance for the first twenty years of its existence. Then turning to the years that have passed since the resistance began in 1987, Pappe offers hopeful visions of a future of reconciliation and peace.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by Ilan Pappe and published by Oneworld
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Maps
• Preface: One Hill, Two Prisons and Three Agencies
• Introduction: Re-reading the Narrative of Occupation
• 1 The War of Choice
• 2 Devising the Mega-Prison
• 3 The Greater Jerusalem as a Pilot Project
• 4 The Alon Vision
• 5 Economic Rewards and Punitive Reprisals
• 6 The Ethnic Cleansing of June 1967
• 7 The Labour Legacy, 1968–1977
• 8 The Bureaucracy of Evil
• 9 On the Road to the Intifada, 1977–1987
• 10 The First Intifada, 1987–1993
• 11 The Oslo Charade and the Second Intifada
• 12 The Ultimate Maximum Security Prison Model: the Gaza Strip
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Maps
• Index
• Imprint Page