Summary
French artist whose 2009 map L’archipel de Palestine orientale opens Chapter 2 of Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine as an image of the post-Oslo West Bank as an archipelago (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.76-77).
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The map transforms West Bank cities and villages into islands in shades of green signifying levels of Palestinian autonomy, transforms all areas in Israeli hands into the sea, signifies Israeli military roads as dotted shipping lines, and positions tiny blue Israeli warships everywhere there were permanent checkpoints in 2009 (PDF p.76-77).
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It is based entirely on data from B’Tselem (PDF p.77).
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Kelly returns to the map’s archipelagic terrain at the close of Chapter 2, for the shrinking Palestinian access to land since Oslo (PDF p.103).
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In the Conclusion, the Trump plan is read as an acceleration, or evolution in RL’s words, of the dystopian archipelago Bousac envisioned in 2009 (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.263). Chapter 2 note 2 records his insistence that the map is distinctly not about “‘drowning’ or ‘flooding’ the Israeli population, nor dividing territories along ethnic lines”, but is diagnostic of post-Oslo fragmentation (PDF p.280).
Related pages
Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, B’Tselem, West Bank, Oslo Accords, Peace to Prosperity