{"id":1137,"date":"2012-01-26T17:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T17:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/26\/how-the-occupation-became-legal-by-eyal-press\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:17","slug":"how-the-occupation-became-legal-by-eyal-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/26\/how-the-occupation-became-legal-by-eyal-press\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Occupation Became Legal by Eyal Press | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1058471808\/how-the-occupation-became-legal-by-eyal-press-nyrblog-the-new-york-review-of-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1058471808\/how-the-occupation-became-legal-by-eyal-press-nyrblog-the-new-york-review-of-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/n41PoRSWWOkwYShJpDNFwjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>Surprisingly little is known about the legal apparatus that has enabled and structured the occupation. Filmed in nine days but based on years of archival research, The Law in These Parts aims to expose it. Even before the 1967 Six-Day War, the film reveals, officers in the army\u2019s legal corps drew up guidelines for a separate system of laws that could be applied to territory under IDF control, rules they were convinced could strike a balance between order and justice. But by the time the first Palestinian Intifada erupted in 1987, detention without trial and convictions based on secret evidence had become standard operating procedure in the military courts entrusted with this task.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2012\/jan\/25\/how-occupation-became-legal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via nybooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesSurprisingly little is known about the legal apparatus that has enabled and structured the occupation. Filmed in nine days but based on years of archival research, The Law in These Parts aims to expose it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/26\/how-the-occupation-became-legal-by-eyal-press\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1584,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/29\/us-campaign-to-end-the-israeli-occupation\/","url_meta":{"origin":1137,"position":0},"title":"US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation","author":"aslam","date":"June 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties100 organizations join the US Campaign in thanking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for declining an invitation to visit Israel in coordination with the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Israeli Consulate of New York.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1026,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/05\/08\/action-alert-stw-office-raided-by-israeli\/","url_meta":{"origin":1137,"position":1},"title":"Action alert: STW office raided by Israeli military | Stop the Wall","author":"aslam","date":"May 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesAt 1.30am this morning ten armoured jeeps of the Israeli occupation forces and intelligence surrounded and raided the offices of Stop the Wall in Ramallah. 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