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Spitz, Rene (2024)

The Hebron Protocol and the politics of settler colonialism

Master thesis | Middle Eastern Studies (MA)

This research analyses how an operational peace protocol between Israel and the Palestinian authority -meant to normalize the life of the citizens in Hebron- had an adverse outcome: a permanent division of the city along religious and ethnic-nationalist lines. The latter was due to actions of settlers supported by the Israeli government, partly in response to Palestinian violence. In this way a further obstacle was created on the way to a two-state solution as outcome of a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine. This research also critically engages with the thinking about the nature of settler colonialism; is Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories a form of settler colonialism; are settlers the drivers of Israeli colonialism, its implementors or both; how Israeli settlers movement, political parties and the state relate to each other; and is the urban divide of Hebron a result of settler colonialism?

Hebron Protocol

Israël

Palestine

settler colonialism

Author

Spitz, Rene

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Abazon. L

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en