Description

The primary aim and purpose of this thesis is to lay the theoretical and politically practicable foundation for what a non-hegemonic, justice-based peace may look like for the parties to the conflict in question: Israel and Palestine. This is done by unearthing and deciphering the institutional, geo-strategic and politico-religious imperatives underlying the protracted Israel-Palestine conflict (using a wide range of sources, mostly secondary), even if some focus will be put on human agency (i.e., on prominent actors, but also on the importance of independent peace activism). The result of this thesis points to the fact Israel’s occupation of Palestine is a de facto US occupation dictated primarily by energy policies (but also by weapons-export-related domestic elite needs and theological concerns), in conjunction with the Eisenhower Doctrine, which effectively claimed another backyard for the US, besides Latin America (so this is another archetypal case of power politics and a testimony to the fact that conquest and expropriation are central features of the prevailing politico-economic system). This state of affairs insofar as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is concerned threatens not only regional but even global stability, since this conflict is volatile to the point of quite possibly endangering the survival of the species, through the “Samson Complex,” based on the presumed need to obey the ideologically-inspired “divine commandment” not to relinquish land for peace.