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The dominant view of British policy in Mandate Palestine has long been that it gave preference to... more The dominant view of British policy in Mandate Palestine has long been that it gave preference to the Zionists. Certainly, with regard to the first decade of British civilian rule, 1920 to 1930, there is virtual consensus around Britain's pro-Zionist bias. Jacob Norris both agrees and disagrees with this view in his excellent new book, Land of Progress: Palestine in the Age of Colonial Development, 1905–1948, in which he sets out to remind us of a critical yet neglected aspect of Britain's moment in the Middle East. Norris's central claim is that British pro-Zionism flowed not from a commitment to Jewish nationalism, but from an ideology of colonial development and a view of the Jews as that ideology's most able agents in Palestine.
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Electricity is an integral part of everyday life—so integral that we rarely think of it as politi... more Electricity is an integral part of everyday life—so integral that we rarely think of it as political. In Electrical Palestine, Fredrik Meiton illustrates how political power, just like electrical power, moves through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. At the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict, both kinds of power were circulated through the electric grid that was built by the Zionist engineer Pinhas Rutenberg in the period of British rule from 1917 to 1948. Drawing on new sources in Arabic, Hebrew, and several European languages, Electrical Palestine charts a story of rapid and uneven development that was greatly influenced by the electric grid and set the stage for the conflict between Arabs and Jews. Electrification, Meiton shows, was a critical element of Zionist state building. The outcome in 1948, therefore, of Jewish statehood and Palestinian statelessness was the result of a logic that was profoundly conditioned by the power system, a logic that has continued to shape the area until today.
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