Sara Roy is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. A distinguished political economist, she has written extensively on the Palestinian economy and has documented its decline over the last three decades. She is the author of Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Pluto, 2006).

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: "I can't eat my lights"

PART I - SETTING THE STAGE FOR CONFLICT IN GAZA: US POLICY FAILURES REDUX

1. Yes, You Can Work With Hamas: The US Approach to the Palestinian Territories is Inviting Disaster (July 17, 2007)

2. US Foreign Policy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A View From Palestine (September 2011)

PART II - THE MARGINALIZED CENTER: THE WARS ON GAZA AND THEIR AFTERMATH

3. If Gaza Falls ... (January 1, 2009)

4. Endgame in the Gaza War? (January 4, 2009)

5. Degrees of Loss (October 8, 2010)

6. Gaza After the Revolution (March 16, 2011)

7. It's Worth Putting Hamas to the Test (January 6, 2012)

8. Before Gaza, After Gaza: Examining the New Reality in Israel/Palestine (2013)

PART III - TOWARD PRECARITY: EXCEPTIONALIZING GAZA

9. Statement on Gaza before the United Nations Security Council (July 20, 2015)

10. Humanitarianism in Gaza: What Not to Do (Summer 2015)

11. The Gaza Strip's Last Safety Net is in Danger (August 6, 2015)

PART - IV UNDOING ATTACHMENT: CREATING SPACES OF EXCESS

12. Yes, They Are Refugees (March 22, 2018)

13. Floating in an Inch of Water: A Letter from Gaza (2018)

14. "I wish they would just disappear" (December 2018)

PART V - A JEW IN GAZA: REFLECTIONS

15. A Jewish Plea (April 7, 2007)

16. A Response to Elie Wiesel (September 9, 2014)

17. Hunger (June 9, 2017)

18. Book Review, Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities (September 2018)

19. On Equating BDS with Anti-Semitism: A Letter to the Members of the German Government (June 4, 2019)

20. Tears of Salt: A Brief Reflection on Israel, Palestine and the Coronavirus (published here for the first time)

PART VI - THE PASSING OF A GENERATION: COMMEMORATING COURAGEOUS PALESTINIAN VOICES

21. A Tribute to Eyad el-Sarraj (Spring 2014)

22. Remembering Naseer Aruri (2015)

PART VII - THE PAST AS FUTURE: LESSONS FORGOTTEN

23. Gaza: Out of Sight (Autumn 1987; published here in English for the first time)

24. When a Loaf of Bread Was Not Enough: Unsilencing the Past in Gaza (published here for the first time)

PART VIII - BETWEEN PRESENCE AND ABSENCE: PALESTINE AND THE ANTILOGIC OF DISPOSABILITY- CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS

25. An Unacceptable Absence: Countering Gaza's Exceptionalism (published here for the first time)

Epilogue: On the Falseness of Distinctions-"We are no different than you" (2014)

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Index