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4 - Israel’s Military Rule over Its Palestinian Citizens (1948–1968)

Shaping the Israeli Segregation System

from Part I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2017

Nadim N. Rouhana
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The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Massachusetts
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Israel and its Palestinian Citizens
Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State
, pp. 103 - 136
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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