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: Governing Through Crime

Hope for Change in Gaza Today, America's Penal Estate Tommorrow

By Jonathan Simor

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The analogy is not as ludicrous as it may appear. Gaza has been compared to a prison. Without disrespect to the forms of social, architectural and community life that go on there (a place I have never visited), some analogies can indeed be drawn between a prison and Gaza under the Israeli/Egyptian blockage, namely: collective punishment, overwhelming (and often irrational) security rationalities, and the cycle of resistance that often takes the form of empowering the most violent criminal gangs (which is my view of Hamas for the record). But the light shone by the May 31st Israeli assault on the Gaza bound flotilla is more about the fatal problems of governing through fear than the conditions of prison life. The Israeli handling of the whole situation, and even much of the critical reaction inside Israel, reflects the limits, indeed the folly, of trying to resolve a political conflict with a "demonize and punish" strategy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on June 01, 2010 (boomark / email).