The occupied Palestinian territories have a significance for Israel beyond the religious and national: Israel’s close co-operation with security firms and police forces in Britain bring closer to your community the prospect of what has been tested on Palestinians in Nablus and Gaza, and on Iraqi civilians in Fallujah.
Jeff Halper is an Israeli Jew who cofounded ICAHD, which opposes Israel’s policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories and then rebuilds them as a form of political resistance. He is the author of An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel.
