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Dominate and Pacify: Contextualizing the Political Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territories Since 1967

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Political Economy of Palestine

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This chapter examines the ways in which Israel exploited the Palestinian economic sphere to manipulate Palestinian institutions, economic development, and social transformations for the overall objective of subduing Palestinian organized resistance to its settler colonial project in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) of 1967. A closer political-economic investigation suggests that key Israeli strategies have revolved around the dual principles of economic domination and economic pacification, which Israel deployed in a mutually reinforcing manner over decades of colonization. The chapter shows how the implementation of the dual principles of domination and pacification has varied over time, depending on the changing political dynamics but remained active at all times. Although the Palestinians have often resisted Israeli approaches of domination and pacification, the signing of the Oslo Accords institutionalized them within the Palestinian Authority (PA) structures and functions, which may explain much of the post-Oslo ongoing weakness of the Palestinian national movement and the submission of the PA elite to the status quo.

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Dana, T. (2021). Dominate and Pacify: Contextualizing the Political Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territories Since 1967. In: Tartir, A., Dana, T., Seidel, T. (eds) Political Economy of Palestine . Middle East Today. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68643-7_2

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