Partitioning Palestine – Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
John Strawson is Reader in Law at the University of East London. He is the editor of Law After Ground Zero (2002).
In his highly original contribution to the Israel-Palestine problematic, John Strawson focuses on the three key legal texts of 1922, 1947 and 1993-99. He writes in the spirit of Edward Said, who emphasized the power of discursive images in texts. According to Strawson's critique, the international law of these texts has been turned into a magical substance to ensure that good triumphs over evil, as if in the world of Harry Potter. Strawson therefore wishes to break the spell of the past, in which each party has constantly refreshed its confidence in the legal justice of its case. He intends to irritate many Palestinians and Israelis, and their supporters. This fascinating and erudite analysis will without doubt succeed.
(Professor Bill Bowring, Birkbeck, University of London)
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