... and with Palestine in 2000, the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, and the development of the Lavi fighter aircraft in the 1980s. The book argues that Israel must improve its national security decision-making and suggests further reforms needed on both the institutional and electoral levels. A country...

... resistance. The second perspective is that of the recipients of Hamas's governance, namely the Gazans. Based on interviews with Palestinians in Gaza, the chapter argues that, while the colonized are socialized into the reality of their own statelessness, their encounter with Hamas's governance also emerges...

... of Palestine, this means that Gaza is not just a story of siege, war, and the challenges Hamas faces while maintaining its dual role or its growing authoritarianism. If one considers the long moment of liberation to have begun already, one also notices that a Gaza Strip under the canopy of a single Palestinian...

...This chapter looks into the notion of citizenship as a mobility regime. It cites how political membership determines the ability to move freely in the territory of the state, which references the limits of mobility in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. Colonial and imperial histories...

...This chapter provides an overview of the Palestinian struggle for liberation and describes the author's fieldwork in the Gaza Strip, Israel, and Egypt, conducted between 2013 and 2016. The Gaza Strip as a whole became a place of contradictions when Hamas adopted a dual mode of existence following...

...This chapter situates the Gaza Strip within Israel's settler colonialism as a way of contextualizing the Palestinian anticolonial subjectivity. While recognizing the Nakba, or catastrophe, of 1948 as having begun the historical process of materializing the settler colonial “dream...

...Table 7 Manifestation of Pathologies in the Disengagement from Gaza Unplanned Process Politicized Process Semiorganized Anarchy Uninstitutionalized Process Primacy of Defense Establishment Absence of Policy Planning, Objectives, and Options Improvisation...

..., the Gaza Disengagement Plan of 2005, and the second Lebanon war of 2006. It identifies opportunities foregone, failures that resulted from a flawed decision-making process, and the entanglement of Israeli leaders in an inconsistent, highly politicized, and sometimes improvisational planning process...

... the expectations of experts, Hamas has persisted as both an armed resistance to Israeli settler colonial rule and as a governing body. Based on ethnographic material collected in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Israel, and Egypt, the book argues that the puzzle Hamas presents is not rooted in predicting the timing...