Meron Benvenisti
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Meron Benvenisti is an Israeli political scientist who was Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem under Teddy Kollek from 1971 to 1978 and administered East Jerusalem and its largely Arab neighbourhoods[1]. He has long been a critic of Israel's policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and has been, since 2003 an advocate of the idea of a binational state.
Benvenisti has been a critic of Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan arguing that it will lead to a "bantustan model" for Gaza and the West Bank and create an apartheid Israel.
He warns that the plan will ultimately fail and "the day will come when believers in this illusion will realise that "separation" is a means to oppress and dominate, and then they will mobilise to dismantle the apartheid apparatus."[2]
Benvenisti established the West Bank Database Project in 1982.
He writes a column for Haaretz and has written several books.
[edit] Bibliography (partial):
- Benvenisti, Meron (1970): The Crusaders in the Holy Land, New York.
- Benvenisti, Meron (1976): Jerusalem, the Torn City, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ISBN 0816607958)
- Benvenisti, Meron (1984): West Bank Data Project: A Survey of Israel's Policies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, ISBN 0844735442
- Benvenisti, Meron (1986): Conflicts and Contradictions, Villard, ISBN 0394536479
- Benvenisti, Meron (1995): Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land University of California Press ISBN 0-520-08567-1
- Benvenisti, Meron (1996): City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem University of California Press ISBN 0-520-20521-9
- Benvenisti, Meron (2002): Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23422-7
