ABSTRACT
A series of small-scale events are contributing towards the social and spatial formation of the West Bank and can be seen perhaps as a new face for the ‘lost’ ideal of community resistance. The loose structures of overwhelming military resistance by the Palestinian Authority has replaced the previous role of community groups, and thus has left the Palestinian people as a passive audience in the background. Distance and time have become irrelevant phenomena in Palestine. Immobility is a key tool in Israeli occupation: waiting to cross a checkpoint, walking through ‘no-drive’ zones, or spending hours finding a way out to reach work or school, all have become a central feature of Palestinian life. With the ongoing system of segregation created by Israeli occupation, a whole culture has thus started to develop around the checkpoints and informal routes. Palestinians are taking part in the process to transform the Separation Wall and its surrounding non-places into a new means of resistance.
