The West Bank and Gaza Strip : a geography of occupation and disengagement /
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| Author / Creator: | Efrat, Elisha. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. |
| Description: | vi, 216 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6015110 |
Table of Contents:
- Plates
- Figures
- Tables
- Introduction
- 1. The scope of geography and occupation
- 2. The West Bank: A Jewish-Arab struggle for sovereignty
- Background
- Judea and Samaria under Jordanian rule
- The geographical patterns of Arab settlements and towns
- First steps in the physical planning of the West Bank
- The "Allon" plan
- Successive expansion plans
- The Gush Emunim activities
- Types of Jewish settlements in the West Bank
- The outposts
- The future of the "Green Line"
- The "Axis of the Hills" plan
- Requiem for the Jewish settlements
- The struggle for land
- Disputed waters
- The Jewish-Palestinian demography
- Apartheid roads
- Peace patterns in an insurgency region
- The planning system
- The map of the West Bank and the implications of the settlement policy
- Patterns toward peace
- The separation fence
- The High Court ruling regarding the separation fence
- 3. Jerusalem - reunited but divided
- Background
- Planning perspectives of the British
- Planning prospects of the Israelis in West Jerusalem since 1967
- Planning perspectives and problems of the reunited city
- The Jewish-Arab struggle in the city and in its environs
- Partition plans for the holy city
- 4. The Gaza Strip - from Jewish bloc-settlement to disengagement
- Background
- Distribution of settlements and population in 1947
- Gaza - the main urban center
- The Gaza Strip between 1948 and 1967
- The Gaza Strip after 1967
- The Qatif bloc
- The evacuation of the Yamit region as a precedent
- Disengagement from the Gaza Strip
- Execution of the disengagement
- 5. The Palestinian State
- 6. Occupation and delusions
- Glossary
- Select bibliography
- Index
