In this Book
- Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
Israel's military court system, a centerpiece of Israel's apparatus of control in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. This authoritative book provides a rare look at an institution that lies both figuratively and literally at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lisa Hajjar has conducted in-depth interviews with dozens of Israelis and Palestinians—including judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, defendants, and translators—about their experiences and practices to explain how this system functions, and how its functioning has affected the conflict. Her lucid, richly detailed, and theoretically sophisticated study highlights the array of problems and debates that characterize Israel's military courts as it asks how the law is deployed to protect and further the interests of the Israeli state and how it has been used to articulate and defend the rights of Palestinians living under occupation.
Table of Contents

- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- PART ONE: LAW AND CONFLICT IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE
- PART TWO: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE MILITARY COURT SYSTEM
- 3. Going to Court
- pp. 79-95
- 5. The Politics of Language: Translators
- pp. 132-153
- 8. A Suq of Deals: Plea Bargaining
- pp. 218-234
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520937987
Related ISBN(s)
9780520241930
MARC Record
OCLC
57532998
Pages
335
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No