ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the need to step underneath the exhausted surface of land in Palestine, so as to explore different layers below the surface of the ‘conventional’ map. It presents an invisible contradictory landscape where it is difficult to identify who owns what, or even who is occupying what. The chapter highlights the invisible forms of Israeli occupation below the surface, some of which other scholars have addressed before. It examines how the strategy of occupation emerging from power operates below the surface of land, and how again this collides with the tactics of resistance of the weak. The appetite for stone and cultural identity underneath the land has thus very much influenced the re-organization of the surface by both Palestinian and Israelis. Palestinians have started looking at their landscape as a viable source of economic income, even if it is for a small-scale quarrying business.
