Tag: Palestine

Seam Zones, Security Zones, Death Zones, and Walls

How Israel controls and contains the Palestinians within its borders. by LALEH KHALILI I wrote Time in the Shadows in order to puzzle out why the counterinsurgency practices of enormously powerful state militaries—the US and Israel at the time I was writing the book—so often 

Isolating Gaza

The restriction of Palestinian movement in Gaza and elsewhere has long been a central tactic of the Israeli occupation. by ILANA FELDMAN During the latest Israeli assault on Gaza considerable media coverage has been given to the Israeli tactic of calling people a few minutes 

A City-Sized Prison-House

With Israeli forces besieging Gaza again, Western ambivalence is inexcusable. by LORI ALLEN A fence encircling Gaza, taken in 2005. The no-man’s-land that surrounds the entrance to the Gaza Strip from Israel is a surreal space. Most of the time, it is a hot, flat,