{"id":4395,"date":"2009-10-14T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:21:38","slug":"epalestine-harpers-magazine-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2009\/10\/epalestine-harpers-magazine-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper’s Magazine: The economics of occupation (By Bernard Avishai)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harper’s Magazine <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

October 2009 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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NOTEBOOK <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The economics of occupation <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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By Bernard Avishai <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ramallah, the hub of interlocking suburbs north of Jerusalem, is the current seat of the Palestinian Authority, or at least what\u2019s left of it: a deceptively bustling place where just over 290,000 Palestinians live. In the early 1970s, I would come to Ramallah to service my car. Today, it is illegal for Israeli citizens to enter, though foreign leaders and NGO officials routinely drive the fifteen minutes to get there from East Jerusalem, through the gray bunkers of the Kalandia checkpoint. The secret way around the closure\u2014pretty much an open secret for any Israeli with an American passport\u2014is to come in through the distant Hizma crossing to the east, blending in with Jewish settlers on their way home. I\u2019ve come this way to talk business. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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FULL ARTICLE may be downloaded for educational purposes at:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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or may be found online if you are a subscriber of Harper’s at: <\/span> <\/span> http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/archive\/2009\/10\/0082662 <\/u> <\/span> <\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Bernard Avishai is the author of <\/em>The Hebrew Republic (Harcourt). He is currently working on a reassessment of Philip Roth\u2019s <\/em>Portnoy\u2019s Complaint.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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