關於以色列佔領巴勒斯坦的七本最佳書籍
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關於以色列佔領巴勒斯坦的七本最佳書籍
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讀書俱樂部：哈馬斯 2023 年對以色列的攻擊不應成為以色列佔領巴勒斯坦任何時間表的開始。《新阿拉伯》編制了一份關於以色列佔領的七本必讀書籍清單：從定居者殖民主義到非殖民化。
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正如這七本書所示，以色列的定居者殖民事業是巴勒斯坦佔領的重要組成部分
儘管加薩再次遭到轟炸，巴勒斯坦人被謀殺、受傷和被迫流離失所，但以色列的安全敘事主導了國際外交論述。
根據路透社報道，當言論未能讚揚以色列所謂的自衛權時，以色列外交官就會介入，就像梵蒂岡的情況一樣。以色列駐梵蒂岡大使拉斐爾舒爾茨向路透社表示：“我希望聽到關於以色列自衛權的更強烈言論。”
然而，對以色列安全敘述的遵守並不像以色列所希望的那樣是暫時的。巴勒斯坦人從政治、歷史和記憶中消失是猶太復國主義領土擴張的背後原因；後者是透過國際共謀網絡實現的，以色列和國際社會透過將以色列在巴勒斯坦的定居者殖民地存在及其對巴勒斯坦人的暴力行為合法化，使該網絡正常化。
“對於遠離加薩的人們來說，了解巴勒斯坦人如何經歷以色列的殖民暴力是必要的”
牢記記憶的重要性，以下書籍著重於主流媒體和國際社會樂於抹殺的內容——以色列殖民暴力的背景、維持暴力的政治，以及以色列的自衛權如何成為對以色列的攻擊。巴勒斯坦人的合法反殖民抵抗。
本書從《以色列建國者的國際外交：尋求巴勒斯坦時在聯合國的欺騙》開始，追溯了猶太復國主義哈斯巴拉框架的歷史，以及如何透過誤導性聲明在聯合國應用該框架，從而導致殖民列強與以色列同謀。新興的歐洲猶太復國主義意識形態。
猶太復國主義在排斥巴勒斯坦人（包括猶太巴勒斯坦人）的概念的強化下，尋求國際舞台的支持，以影響聯合國支持1947 年的分治計劃，並隨後通過聲稱以色列尚未建國，因此可以逃避對1948年大災難的責任。不被追究責任。
獨特的軍隊：以色列國防軍如何建立一個國家追溯以色列國防軍 (IDF) 的起源、帕爾馬赫和哈加納等猶太復國主義準軍事組織的製度化，以及早期有罪不罰現像如何使以色列逃避責任大災難在以色列定居者殖民社會中根深蒂固。「任何定居者殖民計畫的一個明顯要素就是軍事暴力，沒有軍事暴力，這些事業就不可能實現，」海姆·布雷謝塔·扎布納 (Haim Bresheeth Žabner) 寫道。
為了提高讀者的意識，本書繼續展示了以色列定居者殖民主義中軍隊與社會之間幾乎沒有任何分離，以及以色列國防軍如何滲透到社會的各個方面，成為以色列最賺錢的行業之一，更不用說它在維持整個被殖民巴勒斯坦的定居者殖民主義和軍事佔領方面所發揮的作用了。
《巴勒斯坦浩劫：非殖民化歷史、講述底層民眾、奪回記憶》展示了猶太復國主義史學如何透過多種方式消除巴勒斯坦人的記憶，不僅透過猶太復國主義準軍事部隊在1948 年浩劫期間犯下的暴行，也藉由這種方式維持貧瘠土地的神話。猶太復國主義改寫歷史。馬薩哈（Nur Masalha）為底層記憶提供了理由，這可以挑戰猶太復國主義對巴勒斯坦集體記憶的殖民化。
《巴勒斯坦非殖民化：反殖民與後殖民之間的哈馬斯》在《奧斯陸協議》的背景下討論了哈馬斯所體現的巴勒斯坦反殖民抵抗，作者索姆迪普·森將其描述為產生了一個後殖民框架，巴勒斯坦權力機構堅持遵守該框架，儘管事實上，由於以色列的定居殖民主義，反殖民抵抗仍然存在。
哈馬斯的反殖民抵抗是以色列殖民暴力的必然結果，因此抵抗也是防止以色列定居者殖民擴張消滅巴勒斯坦人的一種保護形式。
“巴勒斯坦從政治、歷史和記憶中消失是猶太復國主義領土擴張的背後原因”
《奧斯陸協議》沒有提及巴勒斯坦國，而是建立「巴勒斯坦自治的製度基礎」。西岸的巴勒斯坦權力機構－可悲的治國之道揭露了巴勒斯坦權力機構[PA]參與國家建設的幻想，同時破壞了建國前景。
巴勒斯坦權力機構所履行的國際強制措施束縛了巴勒斯坦權力機構，而巴勒斯坦權力機構則在不存在的國家建設過程中發揮作用。結果，特別是透過與以色列的安全協調，巴勒斯坦權力機構使針對巴勒斯坦人的殖民和獨裁暴力正常化。
《巴勒斯坦過渡（內）正義與執行和平》 追溯了損害巴勒斯坦人非殖民化前景並改變現實的建設和平努力，特別是在定居者殖民主義語言被淡化且不準確的「衝突」所取代的情況下。
該書闡述了自1948 年大屠殺以來巴勒斯坦人如何面對殖民暴力，這體現在聯合國不斷為巴勒斯坦的定居者殖民主義提供便利，以及該機構通過強加“殖民管理”的建設和平努力來補充以色列對巴勒斯坦的殖民抹除。 」對巴勒斯坦人來說，這也反映了《奧斯陸協議》如何塑造了當前對巴勒斯坦人民的排斥。
《加薩之光－生於火的著作》是一部巴勒斯坦人的著作選集，它將人性的一面帶到了前台，而這在許多關於巴勒斯坦的討論中卻被嚴重缺失。在以色列再次屠殺加薩之際，本書突破了媒體的敷衍或聳人聽聞的報導。
來自飛地的文字，簡單而自信地講述，是巴勒斯坦敘述和記憶的見證，同時也讓讀者感受到和理解加薩現實的複雜性。對於遠離加薩的人來說，有必要了解巴勒斯坦人如何經歷以色列的殖民暴力。
了解家園的重要性、人道主義援助的謬誤（對捐助者來說這是一項有利可圖的事業）、加沙圖書館在以色列空襲中的損失，並認識到國際同謀在加薩的毀滅中發揮了重要作用。
Ramona Wadi 是一位獨立研究員、自由記者、書評家和部落客，專門研究智利和巴勒斯坦的記憶鬥爭、殖民暴力和國際法的操縱。
在 Twitter 上關注她： @walzerscent
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Book Club: Hamas's 2023 attack on Israel shouldn't be the beginning of any timeline on Israel's occupation of Palestine. The New Arab has compiled a list of seven must-read books on Israel's occupation: from settler-colonialism to decolonisation.
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As these seven books show, Israel's settler-colonial enterprise is part and parcel of Palestine's occupation
While Gaza is once again bombarded and Palestinians murdered, injured and forcibly displaced, Israel’s security narrative dominates the international diplomatic discourse.
Where rhetoric fails to laud Israel’s so-called right to defend itself, Israeli diplomats step in, as happened with the Vatican, according to a Reuters report. “I would like to hear stronger words about Israel’s right to defend itself,” Israeli Ambassador to the Vatican Raphael Schults asserted to Reuters.
The compliance with Israel’s security narrative, however, is not as temporary as Israel would have anyone believe. Palestinian elimination from politics, history and memory is what lies behind Zionist territorial expansion; the latter is achieved by a web of international complicity that both Israel and the international community have normalised through legitimising both Israel’s settler-colonial presence in Palestine, as well as its violence against Palestinians.
"For people far removed from Gaza, understanding how Israel’s colonial violence is experienced by Palestinians is necessary"
Keeping in mind the importance of memory, the following books take a look at what mainstream media and the international community delight in obliterating – the context of Israel’s colonial violence, the politics that sustain it, and how Israel’s right to defend itself is an attack against the Palestinians’ legitimate anti-colonial resistance.
Starting with The International Diplomacy of Israel’s Founders: Deception at the United Nations in the Quest for Palestine, the book traces the history of the Zionist hasbara framework and how this was applied at the UN through misleading statements, which led to colonial powers becoming complicit with the emerging European Zionist ideology.
Strengthened by the concept of exclusion of Palestinians, including Jewish Palestinians, Zionism sought the international arena’s support to influence the UN in favour of the 1947 Partition Plan and later evade responsibility for the 1948 Nakba by saying that Israel had not yet been established and therefore could not be held accountable.
An Army Like No Other: How the Israeli Defence Forces Made a Nation traces the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) origins, the institutionalised incorporation of Zionist paramilitaries such as the Palmach and Haganah, and how the earlier impunity which enabled Israel to evade responsibility for the Nakba became entrenched in Israeli settler-colonial society. “An obvious element of any settler-colonial project is military violence, without which such undertakings are impossible,” Haim Bresheeth Žabner writes.
Raising that awareness with the reader, the book goes on to show how there is barely any separation between the military and society in Israeli settler-colonialism, and how the IDF permeates every aspect of society, becoming one of the most profitable industries for Israel, not to mention its role in maintaining settler-colonialism and military occupation across colonised Palestine.
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The Palestinian Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory shows how Zionist historiography maintains the myth of the barren land by eliminating Palestinian memory in several ways, not only through the atrocities committed by Zionist paramilitaries during the 1948 Nakba but also as a result of the Zionist rewriting of history. Nur Masalha makes the case for subaltern memory, which can challenge the Zionist colonisation of Palestinian collective memory.
Decolonising Palestine: Hamas Between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial provides a discussion of Palestinian anti-colonial resistance as embodied by Hamas against the backdrop of the Oslo Accords, which author Somdeep Sen describes as generating a postcolonial framework which the Palestinian Authority adhered to, despite the fact that the anticolonial resistance is still in existence as a result of Israel’s settler-colonialism.
Hamas’s anticolonial resistance is generated through necessity, as a result of Israel’s colonial violence, and therefore resistance is also a form of protection against the erasure of Palestinians by Israel’s settler-colonial expansion.
"Palestinian elimination from politics, history and memory is what lies behind Zionist territorial expansion"
The Oslo Accords make no reference to a Palestinian state but to the creation of “an institutional basis for Palestinian self-governance”. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank – The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft exposes the illusion of state-building which the Palestinian Authority [PA] participates while damaging the prospects for statehood in the process.
International impositions, which the PA fulfils, shackle the PA, which has a role to perform in the non-existent state-building process. As a result, and notably through security coordination with Israel, the PA has normalised colonial and authoritarian violence against Palestinians.
Transitional (in)Justice and Enforcing the Peace in Palestine traces the peacebuilding efforts which harm Palestinians’ prospects for decolonisation and alter reality, particularly as the language of settler-colonialism is eliminated in favour of the diluted, and inaccurate, “conflict”.
The book illustrates how Palestinians have faced colonial violence since the 1948 Nakba to this day, which is embedded in the UN’s ongoing facilitation of settler-colonialism in Palestine as well as the institution’s complementing Israel’s colonial erasure of Palestine through peacebuilding efforts that impose “colonial management” upon Palestinians, which is also reflective of how the Oslo Accords shaped the current exclusion of the Palestinian people.
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Light in Gaza – Writings Born of Fire is an anthology of writings by Palestinians which brings the human aspect to the fore, so sorely missing in much discourse on Palestine. As Israel massacres Gaza yet again, this collection of writings breaks through the media’s perfunctory or sensational reporting.
The writings from the enclave, told simply and assertively, are a testimony to Palestinian narratives and memory, while also allowing the reader to feel and understand the complexities of Gaza’s reality. For people far removed from Gaza, understanding how Israel’s colonial violence is experienced by Palestinians is necessary.
To understand the significance of homes, the fallacy of humanitarian aid which is a profitable enterprise for donors, the loss of Gaza’s library in Israel’s aerial bombing, and to realise that international complicity plays a major part in Gaza’s annihilation.
Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher, freelance journalist, book reviewer and blogger specialising in the struggle for memory in Chile and Palestine, colonial violence and the manipulation of international law.
Follow her on Twitter: @walzerscent
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