From Apartheid to Democracy – a ‘blueprint’ for a different future in Israel-Palestine

New book, published just before the ceasefire deal, describes in granular detail the conditions for dismantling apartheid in Israel-PalestineWhile languishing in prison during Benito Mussolini’s fascist reign in Italy, Antonio Gramsci wrote in his Prison Notebooks about an “interregnum”, a transition between the old order that was dying and a new order that had yet to be born. That in-between time was, he wrote, “a time of monsters”.Those words, a “time of monsters”, could be used to describe the period of death and destruction unleashed in the two years since 7 October 2023, in the narrow strip of land comprising the Gaza Strip. If the deal reached between Israel and Hamas that was brokered by Donald Trump continues to hold, it raises questions about what type of future awaits the lands between the river and the sea – an Israeli-government and settler-controlled land mass that both Israelis and Palestinians inhabit, which represents Israel’s apartheid-based one-state reality.Robert Gottlieb is professor emeritus at Occidental College and the author of more than a dozen books, including, most recently, Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet (MIT Press)From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine is out now (University of California Press, $26.95) Continue reading...

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