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5. Israel-Palestine: Part Two—Australian Foreign Policy and the Israel-Palestine Conflict—Avoiding the Colonialist Narrative

verfasst von : Scott Burchill

Erschienen in: Misunderstanding International Relations

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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Settler colonial societies such as Australia, the United States and South Africa have unique attributes which affect not only the way they interact with each other, but also how they regard their indigenous populations. The settler-colonial nature of Zionism not only determined the oppressive nature of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, it also explains why other settler-colonial states such as Australia, Canada and the United States have consistently been Israel’s greatest defenders in international diplomacy. It is the similar colonial history of these political communities that has constructed a distinct, supportive and mutually reinforcing series of political relationships.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Israel-Palestine: Part One—Do States Have a “Right to Exist”?

Nächstes Kapitel Is There a Deep State?

Daniel Mandel, H.V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist (Routledge, London 2015).

There are many accounts of these developments. For a legal discussion see James Crawford, The Creation of States in International Law (2nd ed, OUP, New York 2006), pp. 421–48. For a historical analysis, see Ilan Pappé, The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1947–1951 (I.B. Tauris, London 2001).

Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel (Verso, London 2017), pp. 41 & 47. Maxime Rodinson, Israel: A Settler-Colonial State? (Pathfinder Press, New York 1973). Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé, On Palestine (Haymarket Books, Chicago 2015), p. 17.

Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel (Verso, London 2017), pp. 41–2.

Michael Prior, The Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique (Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 1997).

Edward S. Herman & David Peterson, The Politics of Genocide (2nd ed, Monthly Review Press, New York 2011).

Patrick Wolfe, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Logic of Elimination of the Native’, Journal of Genocide Research, 8:4 (2006), p. 388. See also Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (Verso, London 2016), chs. 3 & 8.

Michael Prior, The Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique (Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 1997), pp. 170–1.

Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (Verso, London), ch. 8. See also, Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso, London 2010). See also Gardner Thompson, Legacy Of Empire: Britain, Zionism And The Creation Of Israel (Al Saqi, London 2019).

The literature on the Palestinian experience is vast. Some of the better accounts include Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (Holt, New York 1996); Amira Hass, Reporting from Ramallah (Semiotext, Cambridge 2003); René Backmann, A Wall in Palestine (Picador, New York 2006); Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Oneworld, London 2006); Max Blumenthal, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel (Nation Books, New York 2013); Ben Ehrenreich, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine (Granta, London 2016); Norman G. Finkelstein, Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom (University of California Press, Oakland 2018) and Raja Shehadeh, Where the Line Is Drawn (Profile Books, London 2018).

Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (Verso, London), p. 203.

Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (Verso, London), p. 211.

Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (Verso, London), pp. 266–7.

Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (Verso, London), p. 211.

On Australia’s colonialism, there are many excellent accounts. See, for example, Sarah Maddison, The Colonial Fantasy: Why White Australia Can’t Solve Black Problems (Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest 2019), Introduction.

See Henry Reynolds, The Other Side of the Frontier (UNSW Press, Sydney 2006); Henry Reynolds, Forgotten War (NewSouth, Sydney 2013).

Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé, On Palestine (Haymarket Books, Chicago 2015), pp. 56 & 57.

The key phrase: “Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people and they have an exclusive right to national self-determination in it” ‘EU leads criticism after Israel passes Jewish ‘nation state’ law’, The Guardian, 20 July 2018—https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/israel-adopts-controversial-jewish-nation-state-law

Allan Gyngell, Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942 (La Trobe University Press, Carlton 2017), pp. 140–3.

Scott Burchill, ‘The Israel-Palestine Conflict Since 9/11’, in Fethi Mansouri (ed), Australia and the Middle East: A Front-Line Relationship (Tauris, London 2006), p. 126.

Scott Burchill, ‘The Israel-Palestine Conflict Since 9/11’, in Fethi Mansouri (ed), Australia and the Middle East: A Front-Line Relationship (Tauris, London 2006), pp. 128–32.

For a discussion on the legal aspects of creating a Palestinian state, see James Crawford, The Creation of States in International Law (2nd ed, Oxford University Press, New York 2006), pp. 434–48.

‘Former foreign minister leads push for ALP to recognise ‘Palestine”, SBS News, 1 August 2017—https://www.sbs.com.au/news/former-foreign-minister-leads-push-for-alp-to-recognise-palestine

Bob Carr, Diary of a Foreign Minister (UNSW Press, Sydney 2014); John Lyons, Balcony over Jerusalem (Harper Collins, Sydney 2017); Bob Carr, Run For Your Life (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 2018).

These figures are up to and including 8 February 2019 (https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/2-palestinian-teens-killed-gaza-protests). According to B’Tselem, in 2019 alone Israeli security forces killed 133 Palestinians, including 28 minors. Of the casualties, 104 were killed in the Gaza Strip, 26 in the West Bank (https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20200101_2019_fatalities/) For the most detailed discussion of the situation in Gaza, see Norman G. Finkelstein, Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom (University of California Press, Oakland 2018). See also Ben White, Cracks in the Wall, Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel (Pluto Press, London 2018).

Excluding East Jerusalem, the latest data shows the population of Jewish settlements in the West Bank grew to 449,508 as of 1 January 2019 (https://www.yahoo.com/news/west-bank-settlers-report-surge-population-growth-164619351.html). “According to B’Tselem figures, from 2006…through 2018, Israel demolished at least 1,401 Palestinian residential units in the West Bank (not including East Jerusalem), causing at least 6,207 people – including at least 3,134 minors – to lose their homes”—https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-builds-settlements-while-razing-palestinian-homes-that-s-apartheid-1.6916161

Mouin Rabbani, ‘Corpus Separatum?’, LRB Blog (London Review of Books), 6 December 2017—https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/12/06/mouin-rabbani/corpus-separatum

In 1980 the Knesset declared “Jerusalem in its entirety” (i.e. West and East) to be the “eternal capital” of Israel. See Michael Prior, The Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique (Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 1997), p. 140.

‘Australian Embassies warned over security before Scott Morrison’s Israel announcement’, ABC News Online, 9 February 2019—https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-09/frantic-response-to-morrisons-israel-embassy-announcement/10795798

‘Jerusalem embassy move a “sensible” proposal, says Scott Morrison’, The Guardian, 16 October 2018—https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/16/australia-may-move-embassy-in-israel-to-jerusalem/ For a subsequent expanded explanation of the Morrison Government’s position see, Scott Morrison, Address to the Sydney Institute, 15 December 2018—https://www.pm.gov.au/media/address-sydney-institute/ At the time of writing it is not clear if the Morrison Government will endorse the claims of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who, in January 2020 claimed that Israel’s settlements in the West Bank “don’t necessarily violate international law”—https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-us-diplomat-says-backing-israeli-settlements-west-bank-will-advance-peace/

John Howard, 23 October 2001, radio interview 6PR.

John Howard, 1 July 2003, address to the Sydney Institute.

John Howard, 11 September 2003, radio interview 2UE. For an expanded discussion of Australian foreign policy towards Israel-Palestine during this period, see Scott Burchill, ‘The Israel-Palestine Conflict Since 9/11’, in Fethi Mansouri (ed), Australia and the Middle East: A Front-Line Relationship (Tauris, London 2006).

David Wroe, ‘Attorney-General George Brandis says use of term “occupied” over East Jerusalem as inappropriate’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 June 2014—https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/attorneygeneral-george-brandis-says-use-of-term-occupied-over-east-jerusalem-as-inappropriate-20140605-39kql.html

Beit Sourik Village Council v The Government of Israel, 30 June 2004, paragraph 23—http://elyon1.court.gov.il/Files_ENG/04/560/020/A28/04020560.A28.pdf

Alexander Downer, 5 July 2004, media release.

Alexander Downer, 13 April 2004, National Press Club.

John Howard, 7 April 2002, press conference.

‘US abstains to allow UN to demand end to Israeli settlements’, The Guardian, 24 December 2016—https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/23/us-abstention-allows-un-to-demand-end-to-israeli-settlements

‘Julie Bishop: Australia would not have backed UN resolution on Israel’, The Guardian, 30 December 2016—https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/30/julie-bishop-australia-un-resolution-israel

Titel: Israel-Palestine: Part Two—Australian Foreign Policy and the Israel-Palestine Conflict—Avoiding the Colonialist Narrative
verfasst von: Scott Burchill
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Buch: Misunderstanding International Relations
Print ISBN: 978-981-15-1935-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-15-1936-9

Copyright-Jahr: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1936-9_5