Summary
The form of the occupation in Palestine Inside Out: ultimately enforced by armed force, it works primarily through paperwork — permits, registries, title deeds and visa stamps — whose cumulative, largely invisible episodes claim land and clear it of Palestinians (Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, PDF p.4, p.43-44).
Details
- Slavoj Zizek, in the praise pages: “it is an ‘occupation by bureaucracy’: it works primarily through application forms, title deeds, residency papers and other permits” (PDF p.4).
- Makdisi: “the Israeli project of claiming land and, whenever possible, clearing it of Palestinians, takes place in an endless chain of small, invisible, almost—but not quite—banal episodes, the background music of the occupation” (PDF p.44).
- Some 5,000 Israeli military orders regulate Palestinian life, on Amnesty International’s figure (PDF p.44).
Related pages
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, Population registry and family unification, Closure system, Seam zone