The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and Palestinian Socioeconomic Decline: A Place Denied

@article{Roy2003ThePC,
  title={The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and Palestinian Socioeconomic Decline: A Place Denied},
  author={Sara M. Roy},
  journal={International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society},
  year={2003},
  volume={17},
  pages={365-403}
}
  • Sara M. Roy
  • Published 21 January 2003
  • Economics
  • International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
Palestinian society and economy are slowly being dismembered. The transformations in land, labor, demography, and society have been stunning. The current context has many dimensions but is defined primarily by Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian lands. That context is also defined by the deterioration of the Palestinian economy, a humanitarian crisis characterized in large part by levels of impoverishment and social decline that have no parallel during Israel's 36-year occupation of… 
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