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020			_a9781788730266
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100	1		_aAndrew Ross
245	1	0	_aStone Men: _bThe Palestinians Who Built Israel
264		1	_aLondon; _aBrooklyn, NY: _bVerso, _c2019
300			_axx, 299 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates, _bill.; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aConquest and manpower (historic Palestine) -- From kurkar to concrete and back (Jaffa/Tel aviv) -- Old and new facts -- Renovating the West Bank (Ramallah) -- City on a hilltop (Rawabi) -- Stones of Bethlehem (Jerusalem/Bethlehem) -- Extract, export, and extort (Beit Fajjar) -- Human gold (green line).
520			_a"They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone men", utilizing some of the best quality dolomitic limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabrication, and dressing is Palestine's largest employer and generator of revenue, supplying the construction industry in Israel, along with other Middle East countries and even more overseas. Drawing on hundreds of interviews in Palestine and Israel, Ross's engrossing, surprising, and gracefully written story of this fascinating, ancient trade shows how the stones of Palestine, and Palestinian labor, have been used to build out the state of Israel-in the process, constructing "facts on the ground"-even while the industry is central to Palestinians' own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation. For decades, the hands that built Israel's houses, schools, offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian. Looking at the Palestine-Israel conflict in a new light, this book asks how this record of achievement and labor can be recognized.
650		0	_aConstruction industry _zPalestine
650		0	_aStonemasonry _zPalestine
650		0	_aStonemasons _zPalestine
650		0	_aPalestinian Arabs _xEmployment _zIsrael.
650		0	_aArab-Israeli conflict _xEconomic aspects
650		0	_aLabor supply _zPalestine _xHistory
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