The ABC of the OPT

Israel''s half-a-century long rule over the West Bank and Gaza Strip and some of its surrounding legal issues have been the subject of extensive academic literature. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive theoretically-informed and empirically-based academic study of the role of various legal mechanisms norms and concepts in shaping legitimizing and responding to the Israeli control regime. This book seeks to fill this gap while shedding new light on the subject. Through the format of an A-Z legal lexicon it critically reflects on challenges and redefines the language knowledge and practices surrounding the Israeli control regime. Taken together the entries illuminate the relation between global and local forces - legal political and cultural - in Israel and Palestine. The study of the terms involved provides insights that are relevant to other situations elsewhere in the world particularly with regard to belligerent occupation the law''s role in relation to state violence and justice.