Sublime

Rogers Brubaker

In reducing it to a possession, citizenship-as-status taints the essence of Citizenship. This in turn creates the space for abuse of fundamental human rights and dignities, dehumanising those who do not have it.

Moreover, the concept of collective accountability for terrorism that is widely supported by the vast majority of Palestinians and their leadership is entirely consistent with law and morality.

Par là, ils fournissent une sorte de ressource d’identité nouvelle sur un plan à la fois politique et social. Et il est significatif qu’ils le fassent précisément en revenant au judaïsme par le biais d’une réflexion sociopolitique, en le déclinant expressément en termes sociopolitiques, et non pas théologiques5.

As I explained in chapter six, 700,000 to 750,000 Arabs were displaced by the War of Independence and were put in refugee camps under UNRWA control. Since UNRWA has enabled refugee status to be inherited, there are now 5.6 million registered Palestinian “refugees.” To be clear, we are now discussing the “rights” of 5.6 million people to return not

Plusieurs métaphores viennent à l’esprit pour appréhender ce sous-groupe éclaté qui ne s’auto-désigne comme tel que dans des conditions externes très particulières, et maintient en son sein une indétermination d’appartenance paradoxalement constitutive. Quelle que soit leur force d’évocation

But the last thing Jordan wanted in 1994 was responsibility for the millions of Palestinians then living in the West Bank, especially after the aborted Palestinian civil war led by the PLO against King Hussein in 1970.

Jerusalem, with a Jewish population of 100,000, was to be internationalized but cut off from the Jewish areas.

A democratic cultural politics would be developmentalist — oriented to learning, growth and discovery — rather than presentist.