Israel has maintained a legal state of emergency for over 50 years.

Evidence

Since its establishment over 50 years ago, the state of Israel has had in effect a legal state of emergency designed for the most part to deal with its internal “Arab question,” legislation that enables “the Israeli cabinet to supersede the legislative process” (New York Times, April 7, 2000: A10). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1753

Categorization

• QUESTION: The permanent state of emergency enabling cabinet to supersede legislation — worth checking how this evolved and whether similar permanent-emergency structures exist in other settler-colonial states.
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the sacrifice article’s account of how states legitimize exceptional violence; permanent legal emergency is a structural cousin of sacralized kingship authority.