Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State

Professor Shira Robinson analyzes the paradoxical status of the Palestinian Arabs who managed to remain in or return to the new state of Israel following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they nonetheless found their movement, employment and civil rights restricted by a draconian military government. The book traces how Jewish leaders struggled to advance their historic settler project while forced by new international human rights norms to share political power with the very people they sought to uproot.