Israel’s Eastern border: Ask not ‘Where is the Green Line?’ Ask ‘What is the Green Line?’

Fleishman, Larisa; Salomon, Ilan

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.10.020

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“…Both Abusal's installation and the Israeli barriers around the Occupied Palestinian Territories signify “a thing or idea itself” (Van Houtem & Strüver, 2002). More than a line that delineates between one area and the next, the lines signal “the site at which, something becomes something else […] at which ‘we’ end and ‘they’ begin” (Fleishman & Salomon, 2008). The symbolic line between ‘we’ and ‘they’ emphasizes the intricacy of border maintenance.…”

Section: Background: ‘Those Invented Lines’mentioning

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A Tapestry of Edgelands: Defining Carceral Edgeland(s) in Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918)

Gandolfo¹

2023

Sociology Lens

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The carceral edgeland occupies a unique position. At times, it is acknowledged; at others, it remains unseen by those outside its boundaries. In cases where the edgeland is architectural, such as a prison or a detention center, it can prompt viewers to consider the power dynamics exercised within. This article, however, is concerned with the possibilities for the edgeland to be moveable and embodied. Focusing on the transformation of the area of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank into a military training zone, the article shifts the discourse from the connection between the edgeland and the symbolic power of carceral architecture to suggest alternative carceral edgelands: the occupying edgeland, wherein the moveable and embodied converge to form a tapestry of edgelands. The Israeli military presence varies in intensity, yet the result is the realization of Achille Mbembe's ‘infrastructural warfare’ (2003) that manifests through the moveable edgeland, and second, the embodied edgeland that is enacted by the military personnel who symbolize the state. In Masafer Yatta, the army's long‐term presence has had an impact on the communities that evokes Lauren Berlant's ‘political depression’ (2011). Building on Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts' recognition of multitudinous edgelands (2012), this article suggests that there can be multiple carceral edgelands at one site, all of which facilitate exclusion and political depression through enclosure, whether through fences, walls, or moveable checkpoints.

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Section: Background: ‘Those Invented Lines’mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Tapestry of Edgelands: Defining Carceral Edgeland(s) in Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918)

Gandolfo¹

2023

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“…Israel occupied/liberated the West Bank, the Gaza strip (currently under Hamas regime), the Golan Heights (from Syria), and Sinai (returned to Egypt as part of the peace agreement). In this new geopolitical setting, the Green Line was transformed from a sealed border of fences, walls, and minefields to a new frontier connecting Israel to the occupied territories managed through military road blocks and asymmetric and selective policies (Fleishman and Salomon, 2008; Gazit, 2009). Although the Green Line appeared on official maps of the state of Israel from 1949 to 1967, a governmental decision following the Six Day War (1967) removed it from all official maps.…”

Section: The 1967 Six Day War New Neighborhoods and The “Unificatiomentioning

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“…However, it can be identified on planning maps since Israeli statutory civil planning bodies have no standing beyond the Green Line. In addition, in administrative maps of the Central Bureau of Statistics, the lack of information on areas beyond the Green Line illustrates the line's path (Fleishman and Salomon, 2008).…”

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“…Israel captured parts of West Jerusalem, including several Palestinian neighborhoods (Abu Tur, Baq'a, Qatamon, and Talbiyya) and 41 Palestinian villages (e.g., Deir Yaisn, Ein Karim, Kastel, Lifta, and Malha). Most of their Arab inhabitants either fled or were driven out (Falah, 1996). Some of these places were utterly demolished, while others were resettled with Jewish populations (Said, 1995, 1996; Falah, 1996; Krystall, 1998; Nasrallah et al, 2005).…”

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“…Most of their Arab inhabitants either fled or were driven out (Falah, 1996). Some of these places were utterly demolished, while others were resettled with Jewish populations (Said, 1995, 1996; Falah, 1996; Krystall, 1998; Nasrallah et al, 2005). the fighting ended when a ceasefire was declared and temporary borders, an armistice line which became known as the Green Line, were established as part of the Rhodes Agreement 1949 signed between Israel and its neighboring Arab countries.…”

Section: The 1947 United Nations Partition Planmentioning

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Making Place: The Shifting Green Line and the Development of “Greater” Metropolitan Jerusalem

Shlay

Rosen

2010

City & Community

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This paper is about place making in Jerusalem, an important city at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It examines how place making in Jerusalem has had the consequence of shifting what is known as the Green Line. The Green Line represents the armistice or ceasefire boundaries following the end of the 1948 ArabIsraeli War. Development of different parts of captured territories after the 1967 War has shifted and rendered unstable perceptions of the Green Line and has wreaked havoc with prevailing conceptions over what constitutes Jerusalem. Symbolic and social boundary reconstruction is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a powerfully organized mechanism that tilts power to Israel with the use of bulldozers, bricks, and cranes as well as tanks and weapons. The shifting Green Line represents a battle line of an idea war over Israel's ability to claim legitimacy over a new Jerusalem. This paper examines the dynamic processes of how boundaries are being shifted through narratives of various actors involved in these processes.

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Attentional apartheid: spatial filters of ethno-national identity in Palestinian and Israeli mental maps of “Al-Quds” and “Jerusalem”

Jaffe-Dax

2024

Am J Cult Sociol

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Israel’s Eastern border: Ask not ‘Where is the Green Line?’ Ask ‘What is the Green Line?’

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

A Tapestry of Edgelands: Defining Carceral Edgeland(s) in Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918)

A Tapestry of Edgelands: Defining Carceral Edgeland(s) in Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918)

Making Place: The Shifting Green Line and the Development of “Greater” Metropolitan Jerusalem

Attentional apartheid: spatial filters of ethno-national identity in Palestinian and Israeli mental maps of “Al-Quds” and “Jerusalem”

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