ABSTRACT
As any traveler within Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories knows, and particularly as any Palestinian knows, the Israeli state practices, and arguably perfects, a logic of territorial and population control, monitoring and surveillance. One form is technological: computer databases, drones, x-ray machines, cameras, radars and hi-tech surveillance techniques that instill both fear and awe (Parsons and Salter 2008; Denes 2008; Gordon 2008). Another form is physical and geographically violent: walls, fences, checkpoints, turnstiles, settlements, bypass roads, bulldozers and machine guns (Bowman 2008; Abujidi 2008; Hanafi 2008; Segal and Weizman 2003; Weizman 2007; see Figure 11.1).
