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Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza
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Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza, by Lisa Hajjar. University of California Press, 2005.
Overwhelmed by media imagery of Israeli soldiers confronting civilian demonstrators, for the average newspaper reader, it'd be hard to imagine that a military court system has been exercising equal control over the Occupied Territories since June 1967. Yet, on a scale of ten to one, this IDF-vetted judiciary has been responsible for sealing the fate of hundreds of thousands more Palestinians than any unit of army conscripts has ever been.
The greatest challenge for a book like Courting Conflict is not only explaining how central this …
