Making the Illegal Legal

Israel’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy colonizes the occupied West Bank one settlement at a time.

By Slavoj Žižek

On August 2, 2009, after cordoning off part of the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families--more than 50 people--from their homes. Jewish settlers immediately moved into the emptied houses. Although Israeli police cited a ruling by the country's Supreme Court [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Zizek keenly examines the Occupation in its intentioned ambiguity.  The State wants to keep Palestinians Guessing at all points of their contact with the Occupation.  For 42 years the Occupation has indeed made the pork of the Occupation kosher… and made tried to maintain a state in which Palestinian Civil Society is the “enemy” and in which Palestinians are devoid of any sense of citizenship.  The settlements have been intentionally normalized in Israeli consciousness. 

    This is a link to an article that addresses these issues further.

    http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6342.shtml

    Israel Posted by louisfjer on Oct 3, 2009 at 10:04 AM
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