Book by Shira Robinson examines how Israel managed the approximately 160,000 Palestinians who remained within its 1948 borders, analyzing the legal, political, and ideological frameworks through which the new Israeli state simultaneously proclaimed liberal democratic values and subjected its Palestinian minority to military rule, land confiscation, and systematic discrimination. Shows how Israel's self-image as a liberal democracy was constructed alongside the institutionalization of Palestinian dispossession. Recommended for researchers in settler colonial studies, historians of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and anyone studying the construction of liberal settler statehood and its relationship to the systematic dispossession of Palestinians who remained inside Israel after 1948.
