Israel's Food Power: Sophisticated Ecological Governance

Abstract

This paper discusses the invocation of food power since Israel's “founding” on Palestinian land. Food power is the power to control human beings and nature through food. Israel has used force to deprive the Palestinian people of land and water, imposed an economic blockade to spread starvation, and used arable land as a buffer zone to keep Palestinians out, then sprayed it with pesticides and contaminated the vegetables grown there with the wind. The paper also touches on Israel's power structure, in which Israel uses an economic structure in which Palestinian farmers are forced to grow crops for Israel's export industry, and Palestinian farmers are forced to buy seeds, plastic greenhouses, and so on. I want to reveal the dark side of Israel's agriculture, which is considered to be the most advanced in the world, and to take a closer look at the reality of its colonial rule.