ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how Israeli security policies since the start of the second intifada have been produced particular configurations of legal status and insecurity. A system of control has been created that has attempted to codify the populations of the West Bank and control their movement through an understanding of 'security' threats rooted in irreconcilable ethnic difference. The notion of 'punitive segregation' has of course been developed in the context of the criminal justice systems of North America and Northern Europe. The Israeli army and hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers share the same space as the Palestinian population of the West Bank. The people who live near the checkpoint at Qalandia are testament to the problems inherent in trying to map perceptions of danger, legal status and physical presence. Many of them have also received Israeli identity cards as a result of living within a newly expanded Jerusalem municipality border.
