ABSTRACT

Under the shadows of confining Palestinians into specific geographical boundaries – whether physically or psychologically – lie so many layers of internal occupation. The fact that Palestinians are today seeing less and less of the ‘other’ has its own long-term impact. ‘Breathing bubbles’ injected between the map to avoid the eruption of a new revolution in Palestine, is what Ramallah and many other urban pockets represent. Palestinians seem to have forgotten that this site was never meant to be the formal way of communication. The invisible force of Israeli power is best manifested through the tactics of occupation by ‘remote control’, as many Palestinians refer to it. The Separation Wall and other physical boundaries are the least of the problem from a Palestinian perspective.