Fundamentally settlers? -- Disturbing doubling: antagonizing settlers and history in the present -- Producing absence and habits of blinding vision -- Disciplining doubt: expressing uncertainty in Gush Katif -- Twice removed: Mizrahim in Gush Katif -- The danger of redemption: messianic visions and the potential for nonviolence -- Unimaginable futures: hospitality, sovereignty, and thinking past territorial nationalism -- On disturbing categories -- On demonized Muslims and vilified Jews
Summary
Based on fieldwork in the Jewish settlements in or near the Gaza Strip prior to the Israeli withdrawal, this text examines secular liberalism, religiosity & the complexities of being Israeli. The book holds up a mirror in which the liberal left & the radical right each find themselves reflected in the face of the other
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-204) and index
