Summary
Writer on the architecture of the occupation cited in Chapter 1, “Outsides”, for the road system and the spatial logic of Israeli control (Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, PDF p.73-75).
Details
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Cited in the subsection on the two road networks, “sterile” or bypass roads and the fragmentation of Palestinian space (PDF p.73-75; see the source page’s Section by section).
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With Rafi Segal, in part 3: the settlement programme’s phases (the Labor governments’ Jordan Valley phase of 1967-1977 on Allon Plan principles; the Gush Emunim mountain-ridge phase guided by the Drobles Plan) and the settlements’ design as surveillance — the 1984 Housing Ministry guideline’s rings around summits, bedrooms oriented inward and living rooms toward the distant view (PDF p.171, p.175).
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Weizman and Segal: “Vision dictated the discipline of design and its methodologies on all scales”, creating a “‘network of observation’ that overlooks the main traffic arteries of the West Bank”; by placing settlers across the landscape the government “‘drafts’ the civilian population to inspect, control and subdue the Palestinian population”, and “The desire for a single family home is being mobilized to serve the quest for military domination, while an act of domesticity, shrouded in the cosmetic façade of red tiles and green lawns, provides visual territorial control” (PDF p.176).
Related pages
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, Closure system, Separation wall, Drobles Plan, Har Homa