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| Acknowledgements |
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1 Introduction -- access denied |
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1.1 On theory, colonialism, law, and the ethnocratic State |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (5) |
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2 A review of land rights in international law context |
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20 | (3) |
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2.2 Land rights as property rights |
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23 | (1) |
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2.3 Land rights as cultural rights: indigenous people |
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24 | (10) |
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31 | (3) |
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2.4 Land rights as an issue of gender equality |
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34 | (4) |
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38 | (1) |
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2.6 The right to land in the context of international humanitarian law |
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39 | (4) |
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2.7 Limitations and violations of land rights |
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43 | (15) |
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2.7.1 Land expropriation, deprivation of property |
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44 | (8) |
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52 | (6) |
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2.8 Regional protection of right to land |
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58 | (5) |
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63 | (2) |
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3 An architecture of exclusion |
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65 | (50) |
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65 | (1) |
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3.2 Beginning of the conflict |
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66 | (9) |
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3.2.1 The United Nations partition plan |
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66 | (2) |
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3.2.2 Competing historical narratives of the 1948 War, metanarratives |
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68 | (7) |
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75 | (2) |
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77 | (3) |
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3.5 Palestinian Arab citizens in Israel: a framework for inequality |
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3.5.1 Discrimination against Palestinian Arab citizens in Israel |
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83 | (2) |
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3.5.2 Israel's Jewish and democratic State' and its implications |
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85 | (8) |
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93 | (7) |
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100 | (3) |
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3.5.5 Political participation |
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103 | (2) |
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105 | (4) |
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109 | (4) |
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113 | (2) |
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4 Towards building the present land regime in Israel: Legislation and judicial systems |
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115 | (39) |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (8) |
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118 | (4) |
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4.2.2 British Mandate period |
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122 | (2) |
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4.3 Establishment of the land regime in the State of Israel |
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124 | (28) |
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4.3.1 Expropriation and transfer of land to public ownership |
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127 | (2) |
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4.3.2 Legal instruments to expropriate and transfer land |
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129 | (10) |
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4.3.3 Review of international law in relation to the expropriation of refugee land |
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139 | (2) |
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4.3.4 Land Acquisition Law 1953 |
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141 | (5) |
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4.3.5 From the `absentee land' concept to the `Israeli land' concept |
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146 | (3) |
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4.3.6 Expropriation of private land |
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149 | (3) |
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152 | (2) |
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5 Case study, Sheikh Jarrah as a contemporary struggle |
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154 | (38) |
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154 | (2) |
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5.2 The Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood |
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156 | (1) |
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5.3 Background to land ownership disputes in Sheikh Jarrah |
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157 | (4) |
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5.4 Proceedings against Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah |
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161 | (13) |
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5.4.1 The Al-Sabagh Case and Hammad cases - a landmark of hope |
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169 | (5) |
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5.5 Settlement plans: why the Jewish settlement is at the core of the Arab neighbourhood in East Jerusalem |
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174 | (3) |
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5.6 Legal procedure from the residents' point of view and experience |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (1) |
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5.7.7 The procedure of forced eviction |
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179 | (9) |
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188 | (4) |
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6 Conclusion: Exploring the dark side of land law |
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192 | (15) |
| Bibliography |
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207 | (18) |
| Table of Israeli court cases |
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225 | (3) |
| Index |
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